The JotDown

For me personally, this ruined Foursquare. I was really enjoying the game for a while, competing for mayorships with my friends, until I started to see people checking in one place, and then checking in five miles away immediately after. It really affected my motivation to compete at Foursquare.

From Foursquare versus Gowalla, round two. I love Foursquare, and competing against others (because I’m very competitive), but I 100% agree here on the cheating. It’s making me care less and less about using Foursquare. It gets less fun if there’s no honest competition.

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Gang Starr’s Finest→

Gang Starr is easily one of my top 5 hip hop groups of all time. I never get sick of listening to Guru over Premier’s production. Their tracks are very fun to mix, so I compiled this hour…

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Midnight Oil→

It was late, and I had just come off a good 6-hour session of playing Modern Warfare 2. My brain was spent. But I wanted to listen to a little music before cashing in for the night. So I recorded…

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Sweetness. More contemporary staircases here.

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Minimal Mac: What Apple Sells...→

Apple has never really been in the business of selling product. What Apple really sells is an experience.

What Apple sells begins before you even walk in the door…

It begins before you take out your credit card…

It continues when you get back home…

To when you start it up…

My…

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Sketched by Alberto “Sting” Russo. More here.

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Beautiful. The Porsche 918 Spyder concept.

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addam:

Saturday night Alexis and I made our annual trip to the Michigan Theater to watch the Oscar nominated short films, both live action and animated. I’ll be posting a review of them all soon but for the time being, here’s Logorama, one of the animated shorts. It’s made from over 2,500 logos and stars Big Boy, Mr. Pringles and the Michelinman. It’s NSFW due to language but I’m guessing you’ll be thoroughly enjoying the film you won’t even notice.

Great short film.

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Sunday Hustle→

This is a little upbeat mix that I put together this Sunday evening. I started listening to this Slum Village song, named Hustle, which is the first track of this mix. Before I knew it, I was …

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Dusk Session Volume 1→

A couple nights ago I recorded a two hour mix, and upon saving it out, the app crashed and I lost it all. It didn’t both me too much, but I couldn’t get over the fact that I wanted to record another…

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This is great. Inside IDEO Part 1, as they redesign a shopping cart in 5 days. There’s also a Part 2 and Part 3.

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I soon realized that my lack of collaborating with other people was hindering my ability to generate good, innovative ideas. I don’t care if you’re a designer, developer, UX designer or in a completely different field, collaboration is important.

From The Secret Ingredient for Innovation.

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West Coast Vibes→

I finally got my Vestax Spin in the mail, and so far, I really like it. It’s a huge adjustment from what I was used to though. So it’s going to take some getting used to. It’s odd trusting the…