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A long-running directory of wonderful things: odd gadgets, art, science and internet culture, posted every day by a small team of editors.
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Boing Boing sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Boing Boing is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Boing Boing without signing up for anything.
Yes. Boing Boing works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The original boredom portal, still sorting thousands of time-wasters into categories with no discernible editorial filter.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
The volunteer-edited web directory that outlived DMOZ, still organising the internet into a category tree by hand.
A weekly newsletter of thoughtful links on design, technology and cities, with every past issue readable on the site without signing up.
Eleven absurd brushes — blobs, tentacles, exploding dots — that make the composition decisions for you the moment you move.
People staple bread to trees and photograph it. There is no deeper explanation available and no sign of it stopping.
Chuck banknotes into an open grave with the mouse, accompanied by an unreasonably committed soundtrack.
Opens as ASCII candy counting up on a blank page and quietly becomes a full role-playing game with a sea, a shop and a dragon.
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