"Double pop that collar, son!"

Earned for checking in multiple times to venues tagged "Douchebag" by users, the Foursquare Douchebadge is the one that caused a tempest in a teapot on TechCrunch.

For a limited time, we are infusing each Foursquare Douchebadge with a POWERFUL MIXTURE of "that Abercrombie and Fitch store smell" and Jägermeister. This is strong, teratogenic stuff. Lea Hernandez illustrated the technical challenges and constraints of applying this stuff, a project which, of course, we call:

We asked Chris Conley, an affable (and, more importantly, naive and trusting) programmer who shares our office space to put on a 3M "Whitecap" supplied-air industrial welding respirator and apply the Abercrombie-and-Jäger mixture to the badges:

"Guys, are you sure this stuff is safe?"

Unfortunately, the first test of our equipment resulted in a horrible, catastrophic failure. As you can see in the pictures at right (click to zoom), Chris got curious, broke the integrity of his suit and took a big, deeeeep whiff of the nozzle. With tragic results:

"No, Chris! Don't open the—NOOOOooooooo! NOT THE SHOCKER!!!

These Foursquare badges are a limited edition (we made them because we loved Mari's graphical treatment so much.) When they're gone, they're gone!