Mark Pilgrim on The Setup

This one is well worth reading. He doesn't just list his kit, he has quite a bit to say on writing and some very interesting ideas about a "dream setup".

<i>This may become a factor in choosing a publisher for future books: the ability to avoid Microsoft Word altogether.</i><p>I can relate; writing a book in Word (or OOWriter) is an absolute nightmare. Never again.<p>(I am also having trouble imagining working on a computer while sitting in a Poang armchair. Your body is not at the right angle to look at something in front of you, really.)

I like the Poäng chair from IKEA, but I don't know how anyone can sit in it all day long at a desk. It's a lounge chair.

I'd love to see a photo of Mark in setting at his desk working from the chair in front of those monitors.

The bit that has surprised and interested me with usesthis.com is how few people they've talked to use Linux, and how many people use OS X.<p>I mean, I knew OS X was big in the geek market, I just didn't quite realise it was this popular.

Not even near being a designer, but the font on that post is awesome.

He writes in raw HTML? Hm.