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''Boing Boing'' (originally '''bOING bOING''') is a publishing entity, first established as a Magazine , later becoming an award winning group Blog . Boing Boing started as a Zine in 1988 by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair . Issues were subtitled "''The World's Greatest Neurozine''". Associate editors included Gareth Branwyn , Jon Lebkowsky , and Paco Nathan . Along with Mondo 2000 , Boing Boing was an influence in the development of the Cyberpunk Subculture . Boing Boing became a , David Pescovitz , and Xeni Jardin . All four Boing Boing contributors are or have been contributing writers for ''Wired'' Magazine . In 2004, the project incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC, and John Battelle became the blog's "band manager". Common themes include Technology , Futurism , Science Fiction , Gadgets , Intellectual Property , Disney and political issues (usually from a left-wing perspective). Boing Boing has twice won the Bloggies for 'Weblog of the Year', in 2004 and 2005. As a result of having to support the heavy bandwidth usage resulting from the site's popularity, the site added advertising over the course of late 2004, placed above and to the left and right of material, and, in 2005, in the site's RSS feed as well. Boing Boing used to feature a "guest blogger" sidebar, but stopped the series in summer 2004 . Guests included John Shirley , Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories , Johannes Grenzfurthner of Monochrom , Rudy Rucker , Gareth Branwyn , Wiley Wiggins , Jason Scott of Textfiles.com and Danny O'Brien . UNICORN CHASER A "unicorn chaser" is a concept dreamt up by Boing Boing editors as an Antidote to blog postings linking to sites containing Gross or shocking images. The antidote contains a picture of a Unicorn and was launched first in August 2003 as a reply to a picture of a rash that editor Mark Frauenfelder posted in an attempt to get readers to diagnose it for him. The text posted with the image came with the title "And now, we pause for a Unicorn Moment." Recently it was also used as an antidote for pictures of a Brain Tumor , a man who pumped up the skin of his face with Saline Solution and many differnet ways to clean your Earwax . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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