Boing Boing Nerd Merit Badge!

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!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Billy Blight

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yay for nerd merit badges!!
Takuan

what is this? a lynching?
Takuan

so long as it’s warm.
Nezrite

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).
Dean

Can I get a “Been Boinged” badge? I think I’ve been Boinged enough….
Kulia

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?)
pinehead

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.
ErikO23

obviously the best way to get a “been boinged” badge is to invent the “been boinged” badge.
FreakCitySF

Do I need a proof of my boingnesst to purchase?
kentkb

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

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…
stupidnickname

@ ErikO23

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

And you are the only one ever to earn it.
CT Moore

Too bad most people who merit the “been boinged” badge rarely get to boing anyone themselves.
Kyle Goetz

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. ;)
Takuan

dibs on the slightly altered “boinked” badge royalties.
Lea Hernandez

Hot diggity damn! A badge I really do merit!
Agies

Sweet, a badge I deserve!
tikaro

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.
Rossi

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.
Flitere

I think you need to be the thing linked to.
Modusoperandi

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

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

Wow, even I qualify for this one! Awsomeness.
Anonymous

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

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