Last week I went to the Threadless HQ, a crowd sourced t-shirt company.  Designers submit t-shirt entries, winning designers get some money and a cut on the t-shirts sold.  It is an 8 year old company that sells thousands of t-shirts a day.  Threadless being a pretty innovative company has surrounded their office with tons of random cool stuff like graffiti art on the walls, old car seats, gutted vans, and lots more.  Their CTO Harper Reed gave us a tour and I took some pictures.

The point of this post is if you want to make interesting unique stuff - think about surrounding yourself in interesting unique stuff.  I’m going to start by making a colage out of my old business week magazines.

Enough said.  Find more of these at http://thisisindexed.com.

It’s easy to get a lot more work done when you are pumped!  Almost daily (especially after lunch) I need to listen to music to bring my energy level up.  I am a big fan of Pandora.  Enter a song or artist that you enjoy, and Pandora responds by playing selections that are musically similar.

The coolest thing I did today in the Inauguration spirit was create my own obamicon.me photo. You upload a picture and it transforms it into an Obama style campaign poster.

Checkout mine. haha

Every year I make 1 goal personally for my business.  What is yours?  I am looking forward to your answers.  Feel free to use the “Other” option and tell me what specifically you are going to do to grow your business.

I watched Slumdog Millionaire this weekend and loved it!  I have never been so moved from a movie before.  It is only playing in selected cities but hopefully it will open up everywhere soon.

I thought this was really interesting marketing.  A new site called Girl In Your Shirt just launched today.  The idea is simple: The girl will wear a shirt with your brand on it for an entire day and she also talks about it on all her networks (her website, YouTube, Twitter, etc).  It costs $75.

Most of us are guilty of spending a little too much time online. It’s so easy to do. And some of us have gotten to the point where we might even be guilty of spending more time with our computer than with actual humans (sadly I think I fall into that category).  Meetup.com is a site that helps you get out and meet real people in your area that share your interests.

I started browsing the groups here in Austin and found so many interesting ones that I wouldn’t even have time to go to them all. Some of the ones I found interesting were the Austin Progressive Vegetarians, the Community Sewing Project (donate everything they make to hospitals), Austin Bookcrossing, the Austin Happy Campers, and the Austin eBusiness Brunch. There is really something for everyone, no matter what your interest.

Score one for the Internet.