The Best of Boing Boing

You know the 20/80 rule? It seems that it applies to Boing Boing too. I was going through my backlog of Boing Boing posts and picking out my favorites, and I found 44 out of 220 that I thought were worth posting— exactly 20%. The first 35 are quick things, mainly images and short pieces, while the last nine are longer text, audio, and video.

1. Taxidermy: mouse riding guinea pig time machine
2. LEGO album covers on Flickr
3. Desk cut and folded from a single sheet of steel
4. Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
5. HOWTO make a very very expensive chess set
6. Flip camera tilt-shift visual experiments
7. Mom accused of stealing daughter's identity to attend highschool and become a cheerleader
8. "America's financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday." - mainly for the picture
9. Kako Ueda's solo show of exquisite paper cut art
10. Newly-discovered bizarre ant
11. Homebrew espresso machine
12. Web Zen: diorama zen (actually, I love all of the web zen features)
13. LOL Street: open thread on Lehman/Merrill/AIG/Dow/Fed/FUD/OMG/WTF - again for the picture
14. Sandwich bag has fake mold printed on it to discourage thieves
15. Steven Skollar's robot paintings
16. Thereminists for Obama badge
17. Grapes with a EULA
18. Rotting grand tropical rail-station in former USSR
19. Artist removes living creatures from famous paintings
20. Flaming arrows integral to oil pumping: 1960
21. American Legion WWII posters
22. Etsy's Handmade Kids Challenge
23. Floor "refinished" by drawing on it
24. Freaky, fleshy concept toy that you can pierce
25. Vintage Marlboro ads targeted at mom
26. Beautiful toner explosion
27. Flickr pool of photos taken through viewfinders of old cameras
28. Skeleton letterpress bookplates
29. Modern games as Atari 2600 carts
30. Photos of figeater beetles
31. Obama bumper-stickers for every state project now complete
32. Guy with Chinese landscape tattoo in exhibition of Chinese contemporary art
33. The wacky show rods of Carl Casper
34. Kiddie pool photo on box compared to photo of actual pool
35. Remixed signage
36. Ontario bus-companies trying to shut down competition from ride-sharing groups
37. Cintra Wilson on goth
38. Copyright's Paradox: brilliantly argued scholarly book tackles free speech vs. copyright
39. Testimony of Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia
40. Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
41. Public Resource wants to open source America's operating system
42. Ben Rosenbaum's "The Ant King" as a podcast
43. HOWTO: Take jaw-dropping photos with a mid-grade digital camera and worklights
44. Seaweed: Lush, hilarious oversized indie graphic novel