So Good: Put your foot in it...

"Shoe Boots with Kiltie" by Nicholas Kirkwood

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Foursquare: Yet another social-networking service I'm the last one to know about...

The world is becoming more stalker-friendly.

At least that's the first thing that I think of whenever someone explains this up-and-coming social-networking outlet to me.

Foursquare is a smart phone app that allows you to 'check-in' at certain public locations and post reviews and tips about that hotspot for all of your friends to see.

I really don't think, as an individual, I could ever see myself using this. It's just plain creepy. However, I was at a meeting where a woman from Seattle Weekly was discussing using the service under the name of an organization in order to promote events and the businesses of local partners/neighbors, and that's pretty brilliant.

While Foursquare may not be the most familiar of the social networking giants, 41 percent of its traffic comes directly from Facebook (500 million users) and Twitter (100 million users) as users share check-ins (That Agency via Hitwise), and that's a statistic to take notice of.

Slingback Scoops: December 21, 2010

• You go to college for four years and the neighborhood goes to hell--Shooting; Human Skull.
• Despite the popularity (and my own obsessive love) of shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregant, the CDC reports that birth rate among teens age 15 to 19 is the lowest its been in seven decades...go figure. NPR
• Ho ho ho-ly moly that's a lot of Santas, someone going to have to explain this to the children... Fremont Universe
• Expect fewer buses and higher fares over the holidays under Metro's two weeks of "reduced service," Merry Christmas...My Wallingford
• Hope he has insurance. Queen Anne View

Featured Slingback: Stella McCartney

GRADUATION!

The countdown has finally run its course and I am no longer an undergrad! So long lecture halls and late-night library lock-downs! Adios 20 page papers and tear-inducing accounting homework! Adieu pointless, GPA destroying GUR's--I'm free, at last!

Fun with Google Maps: Cassis

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In my French Culture class this quarter, we have been learning about the south of France. The tiny,

très chic village of Cassis is about a 30 minute drive from Marseille. Someday...someday...

F.I.N.A.L.S.

After several weeks of blizzards, presentations, papers, group projects, exams, quizzes, desperate last- minute preparations, farewell dinners, birthdays, 62 cups of coffee, a dozen e-mails, too much turkey and a few tears--I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!

My 3.33 years as an undergrad and as a Bellinghamster are finally winding down; while I will in no way, shape or form miss trying to decipher Montaigne's essays or being dumbfounded by accounting and finance classes (that I never should have taken and should have just left it to the aspiring CPA's/masochists), I will definitely be a little heartbroken to leave behind the City of Subdued Excitement!

I will be posting a list of Bellingham "musts" before I graduate, based on my time here, so that future Vikings will know that there's so much more of this city to experience beyond Holly & Railroad.