Register Yourself or Check the Registration
On February 22, you can celebrate Registration Day in one of two main ways.
- You can register yourself (i.e. sign up) for something.
- You can visually check the registration (i.e. see if the colors line up properly) of some printed material.
For registering yourself, you might first think of registering to vote. Many of you are probably already registered for that. So unless you've recently moved to a new voting area, you'll need to find something else to sign up for.
Fortunately, the Intarwebz make that an easy task. Everyone who owns a website wants you to sign up for their email newsletter or to get something awesome for free. Just pick a site, find the signup form - if it doesn't popup at you shortly after you arrive or when you try to leave - fill in the required information, click Submit, and you're done.
If you don't want to stay signed up for whatever you just signed up for, wait for the email from that site and click the unsubscribe link. There's nothing in the guidelines for this special day that says you have to keep your registration active.
The second method of celebration is much less exciting. Find something, like a cereal box, that's printed in multiple colors. Look closely at it to see if the adjacent colors line up properly. If they overlap or if there are gaps between them, then the registration is poor.
There's not much you can do about it, unless you feel compelled to complain to the company that produced the material. That probably wouldn't get you very far though. I doubt they'd send you a new copy, but if you do protest and they do respond, let us know.
Also, if you find a website that you think we should all sign up for, let Da Unyun know about that too.