This year has marked the rise of services that allow users to “check-in,” or in other words, “update the internet about where they are.” The two big ones on the scene are Foursquare and Gowalla, both focusing on checking-in to shops around town, gaining points for doing so, and possibly getting some discounts for repeat business.
Recently, I have taken up a third, lesser known service called SCVNGR. I have been using it for a couple of weeks, but up until this point I have yet to figure out if I am actually having fun.
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I lay here in bed, slamming my fleshy stubs of thumbs onto the face of a brand new iPhone 4. The only thing keeping the poor machine from shattering under the scrutiny of my pounding is some so called “Gorilla Glass.” Whether or not this magical material is any more awesome than what was on older iPhones is not for me to say (I haven’t dropped it). But what I can tell you is that – coming from only owning the 2G iPhone – this new phone is pretty great.
Tonight something magical happened. I don’t know what happened in the universe to premeditate the events that unfolded. The planets were aligned, oracle bones have foretold this day for centuries. Something went on in the far reaches of the globe that trickled down through the ages to culminate in what I, and someone who I will affectionately refer to as Spicy, saw while standing like two major badasses on a porch.
Well, I admit it. I have a natural addiction to our local 
