Editing Boing Boing (section)

==Unicorn chaser==
A "unicorn chaser" is a practice created by ''Boing Boing'' editors as an [[antidote]] to blog postings linking to sites containing disgusting or [[shock site|shocking images]]. The shocking post would be immediately followed by another post containing a picture of a [[unicorn]]. Xeni Jardin posted the first one (titled "And now, we pause for a Unicorn Moment.") in August 2003 as a reply to a picture of a rash posted by editor Mark Frauenfelder in an attempt to get readers to diagnose it for him.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://boingboing.net/2003/08/18/and-now-we-pause-for.html | title=And now, we pause for a Unicorn Moment | work=Boing Boing | date=18 August 2003 | access-date=24 July 2012 | author=Jardin, Xeni}}</ref> It has also been used as an antidote for posts containing photos of a [[brain tumor]], a man who pumped up the skin of his face with [[saline solution]], many different ways to clean one's [[earwax]], and a lengthy discussion of the Internet video "[[2 Girls 1 Cup]]".

On 18 May 2007, ''Boing Boing'' announced that [[Virgin America]], as part of its "Name Our Planes!" campaign, would be naming one of its new aircraft "Unicorn Chaser", after having asked ''Boing Boing'' to suggest a name.<ref name="virgin">{{cite web | url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/18/boingboing_names_a_v.html | title=BoingBoing names a Virgin America plane: Unicorn Chaser | work=Boing Boing | date=18 May 2007 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Jardin, Xeni | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716225636/http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/18/boingboing_names_a_v.html | archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref> An Airbus A320 with registration code N626VA eventually joined the fleet with that name.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=MEET THE FLEET|url=http://blog.virginamerica.com/blog/meet-the-fleet|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113084427/http://blog.virginamerica.com/blog/meet-the-fleet|archive-date=2016-11-13|access-date=2021-01-12|website=Flyer Feed}}</ref>