BoingBoing.Net
URL: http://www.boingboing.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 BoingBoing.Net this week.