Because the average age of a loyal BB reader and commenter is 11, it's a good thing that the new Moderation Policy is fully and explicitly explained to us...

My favorite parts:

Because four years ago, Boing Boing's first, unmoderated comment system went so septic that it had to be shut down. The Boingers want to never go through that again.

and

Q. One of my comments has disappeared!

A. There are several possibilities. One is that we may be having technical problems. It never hurts to write and ask. Another possibility is that someone thought your comment would be better gone.

Teresa then launches into a ten-item list of all the things that will land you in their "bad graces." I think it can all be summed up as "please don't hurt Xeni's feelings again! She's a serious journalist!"

A youtube post by Xeni, about Calipers Addamsapple, recommended by Andrew James? This deserves a wikipedia entry of its own!

And I'll up you authorship. Whoever wants a xenisucks.com account, let me know via email. Even you, "Navy Seal" Boy.

An all-new BoingBoing, with New and Improved Comments, you say? Ah, with a moderator, now I see. Oh, wait, a moderator whose life's minutia is dutifully recorded into her voluminous wikipedia entry by none other than autodidactic "wildcat cartographer"/science fiction something-or-other, and person with very odd definitions of commonly defined English terms, Kathryn Cramer? I can't see how this could turn out bad.

Heh. I already like seeing Corky's name next to "DISCUSS (0)". Fitting, somehow. And frequent.

On a strange note, reading a SHOUT OUTZ list numbering 2 greater than Frauenfelder has fingers to count (come to think of it, I've never seen his hands), one can't help but wonder, "How the holy mother of fuck did it take twelve people, not including you four stooges, to update your blog software?" Wow. Just, wow.

Good luck with that, dudes.

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From the days before their hosting provider was 50% of the non-self-promotional advertising space sold at boingboing:

Let's get this over with, shall we?

Pearl Jam? Lollapalooza? What year is this? And I give a shit, why, exactly?

Oh boy, Mark's using his "clever" dig at Andrew Keen again. So, do they trade off days as to who is supposed to diss him on any given day, or is it just spontaneous obsessing? Maybe it has something to do with the sales stats of Keen's book versus Mark's epic "How To Google Shit For Dummies 2.0" work of literature. Hrmm.

Could someone please explain to Cory and the "Electronic Frontier Foundation" how, if one looks at AT&T historically, one can easily see that AT&T is only nominally the same company, the name being an asset that was transferred from the original AT&T to the current owners? Ah, fuck it. It's actually kind of funny that some dumbass went to the effort of documenting part of the history, but somehow missed the part that negated his entire fucking point.

Grown man blathers on about his new bestest most favoritest comic book. Who's the real Comic Book Guy now, huh?

And, in a rare instance, I found the personal accounts of Iraq actually interesting. You know, if there was more shit like that, there might be less shit like this. Just sayin'.

Oh yeah; a little lagniappe for you: allows comments. The "recommended" ratio for certain comments is particularly amusing to me. Anyway, enjoy. Fernet and Coke time here.

If Andrew Keen is a "troll", wouldn't repeatedly personally insulting the dude as if he had peed on your rug indicate that you're a serial biter?

Tangentially, Cory Doctorow is so l337, he hires other dudes to admin his personal computer. For all those times he "needs something fixed in his kernal". You can hardly tell he never finished college, and just barely got his Good Enough Degree. Just barely.

The rest is all the usual "ads for companies we have known business relationships with, masquerading as content", Mark posting ads for his book followed by subsequently, and separately, pimping each and every bookstore he's going to visit in malls all over the San Fernando valley. Or wherever. I don't generally go to book stores, so I assume the threat level for me is low of catching doucheitis.

Hey, it's as much of a word as "spokesdouche", and I don't even pretend to be a journalist.

Did they ever? I mean, besides Cory? "It's hard to write because I get distracted by teh intarweb." Then don't do it, dude. Nobody's going to miss your paranoid, pedestrian diatribes and post-teen-teenage angst, anyway.

One of these things is not like the others, which of these things does not belong? Truly a monument to the Mutual-Backscratch Society, not to mention the League of NPOV Wikipedians.

The word "wikipedians" doesn't sound nearly as retarded as the image it conjures up.

Pardon me if I am not thrilled by this, for this reason:

The Open Library combines links to open resources with information on in-copyright works and enables you and me to review, annotate, correct and convene.

I'm going to put this as plainly as possible: that is a stupid idea, and it will fail.

No hyperbole. No rant. I'm just that lazy about this entire thing. I care that much. But it's not that I don't love you, I just need some space.

And I think we should start seeing other people.