Hey! Today is Boing Boing's fifth bloggaversary — that is, it's been five years since Mark posted the very first post on the Boing Boing blog. In that time, we've posted a little more than 17,000 stories and entries here. To celebrate our first half-decade as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+ posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export format. The whole file is released under a Creative Commons license that allows you to noncommerically remix and distribute it in whole or in part — go crazy! We stole this idea from Tom Coates, who did the same thing first on Plasticbag's fifth bloggaversary, and we were lucky enough that Andy "Waxy" Baio (from whom we get many, many great links) agreed to host the Torrent file for us on his tracker. Click the link below to join the mesh. The file is about 7MB compressed and about 17MB uncompressed — dag, that's a lot of text. Happy Bloggaversary to us, and thank all of you for riding along, suggesting great links, and giving excellent feedback. You're the best.
Waxy took advantage of his zero-day-warez crack at Boing Boing's postfile and created this amazing analysis of Boing Boing's busiest-ever days, keyword searchable. It's mindblowing.
