Ang Peregrino Recommends 32: Boing​Bo​ing​.Net

Boing​Bo​ing​.Net
URL: http://​www​.boing​bo​ing​.net/

Boing­bo­ing is #5 in the list of the Top 100 Blogs in the world right now. And rightly so.

Boing­bo­ing has the catchy tagline: A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGS (which is a more suc­cinct tagline com­pared to COOL THINGS YOU PICK UP ON THE ROAD CALLED LIFE—this made me think. Should I replace this? What do you think?). And it is a direc­tory of really won­der­ful things.

It started out as a fanzine in 1988 by Mark Frauen­felder and Carla Sin­clair. Along with Mondo 2000, Boing Boing was an influ­ence in the devel­op­ment of the cyber­punk sub­cul­ture. Com­mon themes included tech­nol­ogy, futur­ism, sci­ence fic­tion, gad­gets, intel­lec­tual prop­erty, Dis­ney and politics.

In 1995, Boing Boing became a Web­site, and five years later, in 2000, it was relaunched as a weblog. Mark Frauen­felder was later joined by three co-editors: Cory Doc­torow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin. All of them are, or have been, con­tribut­ing writ­ers for Wired mag­a­zine. Oh, and did I men­tion that Boing Boing has won the Blog­gies for ‘Weblog of the Year’, twice– in 2004 and 2005?

With that pedi­gree and record, it’s a won­der I haven’t fea­tured them here ear­lier. But it is because of Boing­Bo­ing that I found out the fol­low­ing things: that (warn­ing! nerdy stuff up ahead if you click the link!)Eng­lish could be such a weird lan­guage in 3000 AD, or about Etello777, who makes Yout­Tube videos of celebs like Diderot, Che, Voltaire, Blaze Starr, Brad Pitt, and Mar­tin Luther King sing. Or about the Pink Peace Tanks (eat your heart out MMDA Chair­man Bayani Fer­nando!). And maybe you can check out the Stars Wars-Themed Greet­ing Cards who are so clever and corny they’re called awful. :-)

For giv­ing us a taste of won­der­ful things every day, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends Boing​Bo​ing​.Net this week.