July 24, 2004

SERVED COLD

The great thing about blogs is that they post links to the sources of the news organizations they cite, so you can check them yourself.

The crappy thing about news organizations, is that they frequently require you to waste your existence registering your information on their site before you can read the crappy article you were only mildly interested in anyway.

Fortunately, Bug Me Not gives away working usernames & passwords to these sites, so you don't have fork over squat to the privacy-invading jackals of - not to point any fingers here - The New York Times.

But the best part? Via Gerard of American Digest, I got a gander at Bug Me Not's "user registration page". Here's the intro:

To help us create a "better online experience" for our visitors we require certain types of users to register.

If you are an employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration than we require you to complete our registration process. It costs nothing to register and will only take a moment.

Registration must be completed prior to using any resource of bugmenot.com including viewing pages or emailing the site operators. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of our Terms of Use and non-authorization to use this site. Our server logs don't lie.

If you're not wiping tears of laughter out of your eyes by the time you get to the bottom of this questionnaire, then you probably work for a news organization.

It's about 2-3 minutes. Enjoy.


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sarahk exemplified on July 25, 2004 08:31 AM

hahahaha, that's great.

Simon exemplified on July 26, 2004 05:16 AM

And here I am thinking Americans didn't do irony. My bad.