BugMeNot Registration

August 11, 2004 9:06 AM

BugMeNot.com now requires registration. For employees, partners, affiliates or legal representatives of any site which enforces compulsory user registration to view content, that is. It should only take a moment.
posted by brownpau (28 comments total)

Oh, the irony...
posted by trondant at 9:34 AM on August 11, 2004

oh, SSSSSSSSSSSNAP!
posted by ChasFile at 9:38 AM on August 11, 2004

Oh, the irony...

Oh, the irony...
posted by badstone at 9:39 AM on August 11, 2004

best. registration. ever.
posted by junkbox at 9:41 AM on August 11, 2004

the "I consent to having this information sold to the highest bidder on eBay" option should be pre-selected.
posted by quonsar at 9:42 AM on August 11, 2004

Wait. That's not a real questionnaire.

Would you be willing to have an RFID chip inserted under your skin in exchange for a free, 12 month newspaper subscription?

Explain how a search engine like Google would function if no content was publicly accessible:

Would internet advertising influence you into buying a new car?

What if the car was shiny and the ad popped up in front of what you were looking at?

Have you ever fantasized about killing your boss?

Have you ever sympathized with members of Al Qaeda?

List the names of any of your friends, family or neighbors you suspect may sympathize Al Qaeda:

... Now that's funny.
posted by chicobangs at 9:45 AM on August 11, 2004

I'm a little upset it doesn't ask for SSN. Or shoe size.
posted by devbrain at 9:47 AM on August 11, 2004

(this is marvelous)
posted by CunningLinguist at 9:48 AM on August 11, 2004

it's all so meta. squared

thanks for the laugh
posted by matteo at 9:54 AM on August 11, 2004

I rarely go through the front page there anyway.
Usually, I just type the link into my browser along with the domain I'm looking for.

ie: http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.nytimes.com
http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.washingtonpost.com
posted by car_bomb at 10:06 AM on August 11, 2004

Damn.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:12 AM on August 11, 2004

car_bomb - maybe it's time to check out the bookmarklet (flash)
posted by revgeorge at 10:20 AM on August 11, 2004

As usual, I didn't read the fine print first.
posted by car_bomb at 10:29 AM on August 11, 2004

Wait. That's not a real questionnaire.

Chico, I just knew there was something happening inside that cute bald head of yours.
posted by ChrisTN at 10:31 AM on August 11, 2004

Anyone esle notice that MeFi is one the sites that bugmenot provides login information for?
posted by mhaw at 10:32 AM on August 11, 2004

Interesting.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:45 AM on August 11, 2004

Anyone esle notice that MeFi is one the sites that bugmenot provides login information for?

Mmm...not in any meaningful sense, unless I'm missing something crucial about that listing.

[Hay-zoos Christ-o, that was a close one...where's login when you need them?]
posted by ChrisTN at 10:49 AM on August 11, 2004

At first I thought this was one of those stupid threads about how some popular site I've never heard of did something annoying and everyone was going to complain. Then I realized it was actually a funny joke and my fists stopped shaking and my otherworldly Hulk-like rage subsided...

Thanks, I guess. I was about to go stop crime, but this will have to do.
posted by The God Complex at 10:50 AM on August 11, 2004

Let the crime spree continue! I'll be playing with BugMeNot.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:58 AM on August 11, 2004

mhaw, 8/01 man, 8/01.
posted by Peter H at 11:36 AM on August 11, 2004

I enjoyed this post, and would support it in either a presidential bid or a coup-like effort to take over the world.
posted by onlyconnect at 12:47 PM on August 11, 2004

mhaw, 8/01 man, 8/01.

Yes. bugmenot is a tool of our enemy, the terrorists. Tom Ridge asked me to post this:


posted by Mayor Curley at 1:16 PM on August 11, 2004

Excellent!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:36 PM on August 11, 2004

::snort::
posted by ChrisTN at 2:38 PM on August 11, 2004

I would have thought "active thread about obesity" would rate orange.
posted by ilsa at 5:25 PM on August 11, 2004

If you hurry off to my weblog, you can see a couple more homeland security take-offs. That post will drop off the page in a few days and I don't keep an archive, so it you like it, save it :) The button below was inspired by a Metafilter thread...

Current US Threat Level:

posted by krisjohn at 5:46 PM on August 11, 2004

heeheehee! This is so right, in so many ways.
posted by Zonker at 7:44 PM on August 11, 2004

Absolutely perfect.
posted by will at 8:56 PM on August 11, 2004