Lists in general are great for organizing thoughts. Being able to check items off the list helps focus thoughts and offload the overhead of keeping track of progress to something better suited to the task.
A Rails consultancy (I used to work for) in Atlanta called Highgroove also implements ROWE, going so far as to incorporate it into the way they deliver to the customer. It was a great way to work and operate as a business.
I often take a couple of shots of the same thing just to experiment; probably a symptom of growing up shooting digital. I guess you're just banking on randomness preventing dupes from showing too often or manually removing them.
No. My use case is that I want to awesome all of my friends' and coworkers' music while in the office with them. We're all working together in the same room and have good taste in music.
It's not really meant to cheat, but I'm sure some folks could use it for that.
I just hate having to switch back to my Turntable.fm tab or window just to Awesome a song every 5 minutes.
Friend of mine was graphing out all of the connections (using Graphviz) and found some interesting patterns. Ultimately you can say the same thing for "Science", "Knowledge", and even "Mathematics".