There’s an interesting article in The New York Times here about multitasking, online information consumption, and their effects on the brain. I don’t particularly have anything to say about it, other than to say that I found it interesting and think that it’s worth taking the time to read it if you spend any significant amount of time online. (I’ll let you be the judge of what constitutes “signficant”.)
Update: half an hour or so after posting the above paragraph I closed all of the windows on my second monitor. Now it’s just showing the desktop image, a photo of a sakura tree somewhere in Japan, courtesy of the “Japan” theme for Windows 7. Maybe I’ll get rid of it altogether. OTOH it is useful for work when I need to see both my source code and the resulting plug-in simultaneously.
