What is boingesque.com?

July 26, 2005 5:43 AM

What is boingesque.com? [more inside]
posted by geekyguy to MetaFilter-Related at 5:43 AM (26 comments total)

I found it in my referrer logs on an ancillary, (not in my profile but one I have referenced on The Green), website I own and it appears to be a mirror of MetaFilter except despite being logged into MetaFilter it doesn't pass my cookie. I'm not naive enough to make a login attempt. Is there danger?

The specific link, http://www.boingesque.com/mefi/43532 , even uses the /mefi/ convention. I don't visit the reduntantly named namesake and I haven't whois'd it.

What gives?
posted by geekyguy at 5:49 AM on July 26, 2005

Whois shows it to be owned by rusty.

domain: boingesque.com
owner: Lawrence Foster
organization: Kuro5hin.org Inc
email: [e-mail]
address: 124 Pleasant Ave
city: Peaks Island
state: ME
postal-code: 04108
country: US
phone: [phone]
admin-c: [e-mail]#2
tech-c: [e-mail]#2
billing-c: [e-mail]#2
nserver: ns.voxel.net
nserver: ns2.voxel.net
status: lock
created: 2004-06-22 03:57:53 UTC
modified: 2004-06-22 03:57:53 UTC
expires: 2006-06-21 23:57:34 UTC
source: joker.com live whois service
query-time: 0.082441
db-updated: 2005-07-26 12:57:38

In which case I'd think it was safe.

(That's what the Kuro5hin Foundation contributors thought! rimshot!)
posted by Marquis at 5:59 AM on July 26, 2005

and http://boingesque.com points to kuro5hin
posted by johnny novak at 6:08 AM on July 26, 2005

Did you seriously just post someone's name, address and userid?
posted by grateful at 6:20 AM on July 26, 2005

Twice, in fact, grateful. Try to keep up. :-)
posted by SeizeTheDay at 6:28 AM on July 26, 2005

OK, now that we've solved that mystery, what's this all about, then?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:30 AM on July 26, 2005

I forgot that rusty lives on Peaks Island; a friend of ours was just there. Wonder if he's been to the Umbrella Cover Museum (I got a key chain!)
posted by yhbc at 6:37 AM on July 26, 2005

look Timmy, I think Lassie wants us to follow him.

but there's nothing down that way but Old Man Johnson's abandoned tin mine
posted by johnny novak at 6:41 AM on July 26, 2005

Did you seriously just post someone's name, address and userid?

OMG Stalker! LOLZZZ!1!1!
posted by puke & cry at 7:07 AM on July 26, 2005

Thank you wonderchicken...hadn't seen that one before.
posted by adamvasco at 8:27 AM on July 26, 2005

MetaFilter: Licking the spaceman, and other unsavory things.
posted by loquacious at 9:08 AM on July 26, 2005

Jeez, commish, we coulda done some meetin' up. Or didja just not invite me...
posted by theora55 at 9:59 AM on July 26, 2005

Wow, Rusty lives on Peaks. Its almost like having a real, live, cel-eb-re-tee right in your back yard.

Jeez, commish, we coulda done some meetin' up. Or didja just not invite me...

If he didn't invite you, then he didn't invite me either.

I've been saying there should be a Maine (or perhaps "Northern New England") meet up for some time. Perhaps Portland in September? Anybody but you and me in for that I wonder?
posted by anastasiav at 11:32 AM on July 26, 2005

My money is on Rusty buying it for some sort of boingboing joke for april fools or something.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:45 AM on July 26, 2005

way to spoil the joke, Haughey.
posted by crunchland at 12:48 PM on July 26, 2005

I was going to guess April Fools too. Heck, I wouldn't even be here had it not been for the Met4filter.org stunt.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 1:09 PM on July 26, 2005

I had actually forgotten all about this -- both the domain and the fact that it was pointed at MeFi.

The domain I originally bought for use as a BoingBoing mirror site which would allow comments again. As obnoxious as they were, I still miss the comments there. Obviously, I haven't gotten around to doing that yet.

As for why it's pointed at MeFi, I had to think for quite a while about that. My best guess is that at some point in the past there was a DNS issue where mefi worked, but the domain name wasn't resolving. I believe I got fed up and pointed a spare domain at it so I wouldn't have to remember the IP.

I can't swear that's what happened, but it's my best guess.

That whois info is at least one address behind, and it's pretty common knowlege that I live on Peaks, so I don't really care about it.

Also, Live preview! WTF HOWIE! You kids and your Ajax and Comet Cleansing technologies.
posted by rusty at 1:39 PM on July 26, 2005

I do apologise, rusty, if you were bugged by my posting the whois info.
posted by Marquis at 3:21 PM on July 26, 2005

Ok. Cool. Glad to find out it is nothing nefarious.

Nice find, stav.
posted by geekyguy at 10:52 PM on July 26, 2005

Goddamnit. The live preview doesn't use AJAX, just DHTML. AJAX is an obnoxious enough term without people making it even broader than it needs to be.

I'm reminded of my tech support days. Back then, apparently a PC consisted of two parts: "the computer" (the monitor) and "the hard drive" (the tower or desktop chassis). ARGH.
posted by Plutor at 4:58 AM on July 27, 2005

Plutor: I've taken to calling anything that doesn't require a page refresh "AJAX". It's fun to embrace and extend new marketing buzzwords!
posted by rusty at 6:46 AM on July 27, 2005

owner: Lawrence Foster
organization: Kuro5hin.org Inc
city: Peaks Island
state: ME

So that's where the yacht is moored.

How's the monocle polish holding out, rusty?
posted by keswick at 7:20 AM on July 27, 2005

That means that K5 has had AJAX since before it was invented! OMG!
posted by grouse at 11:23 AM on July 27, 2005

Hey rusty, how's sponsorship coming along?
posted by angry modem at 7:08 PM on July 27, 2005

Oh, snap.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:51 PM on July 27, 2005

> That means that K5 has had AJAX since before it was invented! OMG!

I still really love that dynamic threading stuff. More places should do it.
posted by blacklite at 11:55 PM on July 27, 2005