Boing Boing Nerd Merit Badge!

Posted by David Pescovitz, April 16, 2009 1:14 PM | permalink

Wow! The creators of Nerd Merit Badges made a Boing Boing badge. I love this! Unfortunately, I don't see it on the Nerd Merit Badges site yet. (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)

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#1 posted by Kulia, April 16, 2009 1:33 PM

I've been trying to get boinged for months now. I think my funny little website would be great on boing boing. http://safetygraphicfun.com

(was that too obvious?)

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#2 posted by ErikO23, April 16, 2009 1:41 PM

obviously the best way to get a "been boinged" badge is to invent the "been boinged" badge.

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#3 posted by stupidnickname, April 16, 2009 1:50 PM

@ ErikO23

I think that you have just invented the "meta" merit badge.

And you are the only one ever to earn it.

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#4 posted by Lea Hernandez, April 16, 2009 2:02 PM

Hot diggity damn! A badge I really do merit!

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#5 posted by Agies, April 16, 2009 2:11 PM

Sweet, a badge I deserve!

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#6 posted by Rossi, April 16, 2009 2:17 PM

So does your original creation have to be Boinged or do you merit the badge if you send in a link to someone else's cool stuff and it get's posted? They need to hurry with the posting of the badge and its qualifications.

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#7 posted by Flitere, April 16, 2009 2:25 PM

I think you need to be the thing linked to.

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#8 posted by Daemon, April 16, 2009 2:34 PM

Wow, even I qualify for this one! Awsomeness.

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#9 posted by Dean, April 16, 2009 4:03 PM

Can I get a "Been Boinged" badge? I think I've been Boinged enough....

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#10 posted by FreakCitySF, April 16, 2009 4:25 PM

Do I need a proof of my boingnesst to purchase?

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#11 posted by Church, April 16, 2009 4:27 PM

Hrm. My first thought was, "I know a bunch of people who qualify for that bb badge."

My next thought was, "I haven't met any of those people IRL."

I really should leave the basement once in a while...

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#12 posted by tikaro, April 16, 2009 5:12 PM

By golly, scooped! We'll have to scramble to put the new badge up on the site.

The qualification we had in mind for this was...
...you know what? I've tried to define this a bunch of different ways, but it always comes out pedantic, or imprecise in some way.

Here's the best I can do:
The qualification of the "Been Boinged" badge is that you've been Boinged, and are proud of it. Having a project that's mentioned in BB would most definitely be a qualification. So would several other things I can think of. Some of them probably involve Takuan.

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#13 posted by Church, April 16, 2009 5:33 PM

I'm amused that there are no vowels on the badge.

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#14 posted by Billy Blight, April 16, 2009 6:26 PM

Does my progress from my old (now defunct) trucking badge cross over from scouts?

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#15 posted by Lord Humongous, April 16, 2009 6:35 PM

Great! Now if I can only must the sewing skills to put this sucker on my Strand bookbag!

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#16 posted by Flitere, April 16, 2009 6:40 PM

You know, in a weird way, Takuan really is part of the essential Boing Boing experience.

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#17 posted by Avi Solomon, April 16, 2009 6:46 PM

How about a "boinger" badge for people like me:)
http://avisolo.blogspot.com/2009/02/avi-boingboing.html

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#18 posted by mujadaddy, April 16, 2009 6:48 PM

Yay! I've earned this one! http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/resist-remix-of-ball.html

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#19 posted by Kulia, April 16, 2009 7:17 PM

#16 Flitere: I completely concur. Takuan is essential Boing Boing.

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#20 posted by Manooshi, April 16, 2009 7:29 PM

Yay for nerd merit badges!!

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#21 posted by Takuan, April 16, 2009 7:35 PM

what is this? a lynching?

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#22 posted by Nezrite, April 16, 2009 8:42 PM

I'll never have the 0 inbox badge - I keep an e-mail from an ex-b/f-eventual-best-friend-who-died in my inbox. Oh, and my first ever text message (from my husband).

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#23 posted by pinehead, April 16, 2009 9:37 PM

I think you should Boing me so I can get that badge. After some reflection on your part, I think you would agree. It's where the smart money is.

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#24 posted by kentkb, April 16, 2009 10:02 PM

OkOkOk.... I want this for my messenger bag!

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#25 posted by CT Moore, April 17, 2009 6:39 AM

Too bad most people who merit the "been boinged" badge rarely get to boing anyone themselves.

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#26 posted by Takuan, April 17, 2009 6:44 AM

dibs on the slightly altered "boinked" badge royalties.

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#27 posted by litcritter, April 17, 2009 8:07 AM

I wish there was one for surviving being slashdotted. That one, I'd qualify for.

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#28 posted by Kyle Goetz, April 17, 2009 10:00 AM

I'm pretty stoked about the fact that, thus far, I qualify for all four nerd merit badges. Assuming that starting my own open source project and having my own commits added to it counts for the open source badge. ;)

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#29 posted by Anonymous, April 17, 2009 10:56 AM

I have been sporting the Inbox Zero badge for a while, great stuff.

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#30 posted by Modusoperandi, April 17, 2009 5:46 PM

Takuan "what is this? a lynching?"
No, if it was a lynching we would have very little need for these feathers and tar.

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#31 posted by Takuan, April 18, 2009 6:58 PM

so long as it's warm.