we love the web
    
   email us
   go to messageboard newsletter archive home
   NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 12: WASTE TIME AT WORK
   next issue »
   « previous issue

 This Week:
  - Rocket car
  - Blode III
  - MaciGame
 -------------------------------------------------
    ___  ____ __  ___
   /  _)|_  // /_/ _ |
  /  _ |/_ </ __/ __ |
 /____/____/\__/_/ |_|
 B3ta Issue 12 - 05 OCT 2001 - WASTE TIME AT WORK
 -------------------------------------------------
 : Subscribe
   Send blank mail to [email protected]
 -------------------------------------------------
   One of the great joys of the web is that it
   offers endless ways of bunking off from work
   whilst in the office.
   Considering that most of us will be sacked soon,
   why not have a holiday on company time?
   And so - here are B3tas' 10 ways to waste time
   in the office.
 -------------------------------------------------
 : READ THE BEST EMAIL EVER WRITTEN
   .. Legend of the Rocket Car.
   In 1978 a 22 year old man attached an aircraft
   jet rocket to his car. This is his - very
   long & extremely funny - account.
      
 http://www.wagoneers.com/pages/RocketCar/rockit.ht...
 -------------------------------------------------
 : WATCH AN ODD ANIMATION
   .. Blode III - Marmot Mayhem.
   Joel Veitch - creator of The Frightened Boy
   & the Swearotron has released a new animated
   flash movie.
   It features a small fury animal going into
   space and defeating Space Marmots - and a song
   about cleaning a Musk Ox.
   Joel claims, "This is the dawn of a new era
   in entertainment and the best thing ever
   made, of any sort, ever in the history of
   everything."
 http://www.rathergood.com/blode3/
 -------------------------------------------------
 : BEST THREE WEB GAMES
   .. that we've wasted most time on.
   Lego JunkBot
 http://www.lego.com/build/junkbot/junkbot.asp
   3D Pong
 http://www.liquid.se/pong.html
   Spaced Pengiun
 http://bigidea.com/penguins/kids/k_spacedpenguin.h...
 -------------------------------------------------
 : MESS UP A NEWS PHOTO
   .. post it to Fark.com
   Fark is a community site which hosts links
   to interesting stories and allows you to
   comment on them.
   Farks' weird genius is a section called
   "Photoshop this picture", where the editor
   finds an unusual image and challenges the
   you to edit it.
   Don't have to worry if your artistic
   skills are lacking - it's all about making
   a quick gag.
   View a recent example - with a clown:
 http://www.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl
 -------------------------------------------------
 : TYPE YOUR NAME INTO A SEARCH ENGINE
   ..  it's called Ego Surfing.
   B3ta member Rob says, "I have the same name
   as the chief of police in Haiti. I was
   strangely thrilled to learn about my
   doppelgangers' series of human rights
   abuses."
   Suggestion: find that special person,
   email them, and really weird them out.
 http://www.google.com/
 -------------------------------------------------
 : MAKE A PAPER AIRPLANE
   .. and throw it at a co-worker.
   This site features many novel designs - a step up
   from the ones we made at school.
 http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml
 -------------------------------------------------
 : KILL YOUR BOSS (online)
   .. and get sacked.
   Find a JPEG image of your boss - there will
   probably be one on the company intranet -
   and upload it to B3ta's customisable Space
   Invaders.
   This will generate a unique web address which
   you can forward to all the employees in the
   company.
   If you get sacked - email us so that we can
   laugh at your expense.
 http://b3ta.com/kill/
 -------------------------------------------------
 : PLAY MACIGAME
   .. the most addictive game in the world.
   Like Tetris - on first glance MaciGame
   looks unappealing - and like Tetris, it's
   genius is it's simplicity.
   B3ta member Neil says, "I had to take it
   off my computer. I didn't do a stitch
   of work for 2 months."
   (BTW: It's not a web page, it needs
   installing - and there are version for
   the PC & Mac.)
 http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/freebies.html 
 -------------------------------------------------
 : MAKE WEIRD ART
   .. out of dead crabs.
   Crab Pallete is a silly little web page
   which allows your to make pictures by
   squashing crabs.
 http://www.rathergood.com/crabpalette.html
 -------------------------------------------------
 : HOW GOOD ARE THEY IN BED?
   .. that sexy person, in the office.
   Howgoodinbed.com asks you to fill in a quick
   quiz, and attempts to rate your friends' bedroom
   technique based on a series of clever sums.
   Site designer Rob Malone got in contact and said,
   "I honestly believe there must be some real
   predictive factors and this site is meant to
   figure out what they are."
 http://www.howgoodinbed.com/
 -------------------------------------------------------
 : SEND US STUFF!
   .. pictures, games, whatever ..
 
   We are always interested in hearing from people who
   are attempting to make cool things on the web. Say
   hello at http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/

   next issue »
   « previous issue
   Newsletter
   We run a free weekly B3TA email reporting on the coolest stuff on the net.

   _____________________ [ go ]
   --------------------
   THIS WEEKS HEADLINES
   --------------------

   * TYPE-IN MAGAZINE - LAUNCHED FOR YOUR FINGERS
   * AI SLOP - GET READY TO OINK FOR IT, PIGGIES
   * GET WELL SOON - WISHING WELL TO DAVE BAGPUSS

   READ LATEST ISSUE
   archive