http://www.getofftheinternet.org Dedicated to bringing you the best of the worst. Mon, 12 May 2008 06:01:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Pill Kills asks you to celebrate "Protest the Pill Day". June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today. On that day in 1965, when the U.S. ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/no-commentary-neccessary/2008/05/12/ So I'm browsing MovieWeb (for work, I swear!) and notice in the sidebar a list of "most commented-on threads," which is always promising. Comments on movie websites are retard gold. The top one is for X-Men 4, which I guess is a thing? So I investigate. The X-Men franchise had drastically ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/get-over-itnot-every-movie-is-gonna-turn-out-the-way-you-want-it/2008/05/09/ Earlier this week, Amazon opted to limit the length of a discussion thread. Reading their post, it's obvious that this wasn't done on a whim: people were reporting errors when attempting to access threads that were much longer than the software was built to handle. Amazon responded by announcing ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/this_is_not_an_acceptable_solution/2008/05/09/ get off the internet blind man in a dark room open source boob project students getting there tits groped lord of the flies jack not guilty slasher stage play dan fogelberg snuff porn her spanking was moderate did a movie ever get 10 stars on imdb lord of the flies that you can listen to girls boobs groped by men what brings ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/the-last-17-keyword-searches-to-reach-getofftheinternetorg/2008/05/08/ If there's one trend in crafting that annoys me, it is the hipsterization of handmade items. Slap a pirate, ninja, or zombie on a handmade item and try to sell it. Bonus points for incredibly high-priced items! Everybody's doing it! Pirates Anchors Away Jack Sparrow Bottlecap Necklace Shiver Me Sasha The PIRATE CUPCAKE T ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/etsy-ruining-pirates-ninjas-and-zombies-for-everybody/2008/05/08/ Last year, as you may recall, the sainted horse Barbaro was put down after a long illness. His fans reacted with restraint and a healthy dose of perspective. For a nice summary, here's the Field Guide to Barbaro Message Board Factions . This past weekend, tragedy struck the horse racing world ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/and-left-churchill-downsin-a-heavenly-bandof-angels/2008/05/06/ DC Comics publishes around 50 different titles in its main superhero line in any given month, meaning that they publish something like 600 total individual periodicals in a given year. You're with me so far, right? Last week, the latest issue of the sales-handicapped Blue Beetle series, set ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/assume-in-your-perfect-world-everyone-will-speak-mexican-and-we%e2%80%99ll-all-be-happy-when-illegal-immigration-causes-the-economy-to-collapse/2008/05/05/ Newsarama poster "VinnyPic" has a message for comic book fans eager to see the new Iron Man movie who haven't been supporting the Iron Man comic: All of you, who have sullied his good name the past two years, and are poised to wank off 24 hours from now to his ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/public-service-announcement-the-tony-stark-does-not-want-you-on-his-bandwagon/2008/05/03/ in a post titled "This guy is really pissed about Jazz's death in Transformers." I think that says it all, no? My favorite part is the Random Capitalization. Or maybe the heartfelt tribute to a dead fictional robot at the very end. Or the picture of Jazz ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/i-hope-i-have-gotten-rid-of-all-my-spell-errors-and-stuff/2008/04/30/ Television news-magazine 20/20 recently ran a piece where they video-taped people's reactions to same-sex couples showing affection for one another in public. There are some amusing reactions in the piece, including that of a woman desperate for the police to find something to charge the gay male couple with. But we're ... http://www.getofftheinternet.org/gays-touching-everybody-panic/2008/04/30/