The map's been up for a while. I had some issues that I fixed (it helps to have access to the code base), but it's stable now. Yeah, again, sorry for the lack of posts. I will have had my first day off since my last post this coming Saturday. Yes, that's right. Nineteen days of working on DevHub. Unfortunate, but necessary.

I know that I'm slacking on the more detailed reviews (though I do have spur-of-the-moment reactions on Twitter). I've been ridiculously busy at work (moreso this week), but I'm going to attempt to shrink the backlog this weekend. Anyway, I made a map of all of the suggested places from Questionland (which will be on the site soon). I saw some somewhat interesting groupings, in terms of neighborhood. The following list is ordered by frequency:

1. Capitol Hill (9)
2. Downtown Seattle (6)
3. Ballard (5)
4. Fremont (4)
5. Tie: West Seattle, University District, Queen Anne (3)

All in all, this is not too surprising, given the demographics of The Stranger's readership (particularly those who choose to participate in its online properties). It just means that I'm going to be going to Capitol Hill more often.

This particular journey, and this website, began with a simple question: where are the best french fries in Seattle? I honestly didn't think that I'd get more than five or ten answers. Instead, it was the question of the day on The Stranger's blog, the Slog, and at the writing of this post, it has 40 responses. Now, in Questionland, you're supposed to give a "mushroom" to the person with the "best" answer. Being a generally fair person, this is a very hard thing to do. I decided that I wouldn't do this until I found the best place to buy french fries. I started the reviewing process at the beginning of the month (with a mini-review on Twitter), with a longer review (from memory) to be posted on this blog.

Here's how I'm going to review the places: in my question, I ...

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