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The Charlie Sheen Browser Blocker: "Tinted Sheen"

Xeni Jardin at 9:37 am Tue, Mar 8, 2011

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Thank you, Greg Leuch and fffff.at, for providing us all with a tool for blocking Charlie Sheen from the Internet: Tinted Sheen.

"Download the plugin for Firefox or Chrome, and never again worry about seeing his name or face."

Now that's what I call #Winning!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Boba Fett Diop

    To stop Charlie Sheen, 1-2-3
    Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble-free
    It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee
    (Guarantee void in Tennessee)

    Just don’t look! Just don’t look!

  • Jack Timely

    So now every time you see a blocked out shape or see tinted words, you will automatically think of Charlie Sheen. Ridiculous.

    • RockingJamboree

      Yes, it’s ridiculous. It’s a ridiculous response to a ridiculous situation. It’s Dada! It also works! I’ve installed the plug-in, and now I can’t Google Charlie Sheen, even if I want to!

  • Colorado Bob

    Charlie has always rode the ” Hell Bound Train “……… I was a ” ‘Brake-man’ on the Hell Bound Train ” I just buried the man that reached down and gave me a lift up onto that train .

    The sad thing is Charlie, thinks he’s brave and smart , I bought the same line.

    Burying my friend Drew Pennington at Lubbock , Texas -
    This guy rode that train ……….

    http://www.youtube.com/coloradobob1

    This guy crashed a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle into the door frame of a car with no helmet.
    That was back in 67′ , he just died. Drew Pennington is on the grave of Buddy Holly , Charlie ain’t.

  • Lobster

    I could use one of these for Lady Gaga, too.

    • Phikus

      Indeed, and that goes for that Bieber kid, Madonna, Britney, the Jonas bros. and Miley Cyrus too. What % of the internet would we be blocking then?

  • Wargagets

    ha just for badness i,m making one for BoingBoing and start a twitter and facebook to promote it ! Don,t ya just love irony hehe

  • Colorado Bob

    This is like the old dead lawyers joke, Charlie is a good start on a very long list -
    I would add the Lohan app as well.

  • Nadreck

    Is there one for the Fnord?

  • Lidok

    As much as I don’t want to read or even remember about certain people sometimes I find really funny articles and parodies about these people. Link having an add on that will block them

  • Bookburn

    Why is censorship of Charlie Sheen on the internet acceptable but censorship of the nigger in Huck Finn Bad?

  • Anonymous

    Looks great, but I’d have called it ‘Neither Sheen Nor Heard”

  • Krisjohn

    Gah! It makes him MORE obvious!

  • Anonymous

    It works!

    http://oi55.tinypic.com/3161ag2.jpg

  • Ipo

    Charlie who?
    Aah, that Charlie, the one they tested this newfangled medical procedure on, where they pump tiger blood through your veins or something?

    Sorry, I missed most of that, was so busy getting it on with some biatches.

  • Anonymous

    Biggest guffaw all week!

  • Anonymous

    I want one for SXSW

  • Anonymous

    DO NOT USE THIS ADD-ON! It causes your browser to lock up repeatedly, crash, and it slows down browsing to a crawl.

    In addition: The blank squares covering any Sheen-related content are FAR more obvious than any mention of said individual, and thus, the pugin runs counter to its intended result, in addition to being harmful to your browsers operation.

  • psychoperator

    …and G13nn B3ck, please. It even hurts to type that name. I want him erased from my consciousness.

  • Siver Ourni

    @Bookburn

    Because it’s optional and can be undone by clicking “disable” in the plugin list.

    (Reversing the bowdlerization of a published work is much more difficult for the reader.)

  • Anonymous

    And just what is going to happen to my Ferris Bueller marathon if this proves successful?

  • Anonymous

    how about someone develop a browser to only show Sheen? winning. See all of Sheen’s quotes on http://www.livingthesheen.com bro