The wacky boys at Boing Boing Gadgets are doing “three days of fiction-​​based blog­ging”. Product of which is here. I regret that they took the time to explain the project, I was enjoying it even more before I had it cat­e­go­rized for me, but it’s still great stuff. There’s some real effort at play.

Judging from the com­ments on the only open thread so far, lots of people don’t appre­ciate having the flow of their gadget-​​information inter­rupted for mere art and humour and social com­men­tary. They are threat­ening to go to other gadget blogs. Sounds like a good idea to me.

It’s a tough pos­ture that Boing Boing Gadgets trys to main­tain: simul­ta­ne­ously scorning con­sumerism while being a gadget blog. Reminds me of the fun­da­mental dis­so­nance at the heart of techno-​​utopian, post-​​WELL northern California. This looks like an effort to poke a finger into that chasm. Good O, Boing Boing Gadgets.