Boing Boing
Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney and left-wing politics, and it twice won the Bloggies for 'Weblog of the Year', in 2004 and 2005.
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