Much like anyone else with a working internet connection and a functioning skull, I do (heart) Boing Boing. Though I would like to point out that despite they and their readers’ tremendous work surveying the modern phenomena of gargantuan phallic objects in our streets and city centers….CSTB has featured a category called “Buildings Shaped Like Cocks” for a number of years.
Granted, there’s hardly any content to speak of, but I’ve demonstrated a willingness to include more. If that’s what the people want, that’s what they shall get.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m saddened. Not angry, but disappointed. Tom Sizemore falls off the wagon (and onto the meth train), you guys are pretty quick to fill me in. But when the real heavy shit goes down, Boing Boing is all over it.
Thanks for nuthin’ .
not to mention this
I have always had a problem with Boing Boing’s anti-musician reporting which serves to denigrate musicians at every turn. When was the last time they wrote something nice about a musician making money? Never. When was the last time they wrote something nice about a steampunk designer making money? I think yesterday.
They are also pretty myopic, recently posting an article which purported to prove a “new theory” that the widespread development of underwear during the middle ages allowed the creation of linen paper. That was the subject of a really popular episode of Connections, an old BBC show, that I saw as early as 1982, but appeared in the UK in 1978! If you didn’t know that, you’re just ignorant of technology.
Boing Boing is a great site for lunchtime browsing, but they’re the Pitchfork of trivia. Newbies get impressed, collectors see them for what they really are.
But I’ll be back reading again tomorrow, maybe someone will make a steampunk hello kitty bicycle out of modernistic designed Cthulu books.