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   NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 19: CATS ARE EVIL
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 This Week:
 - Kill the Space Kittens
 - Psycho Techno Hypno Kitten Snake
 - Kitten Image Challenge
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 B3ta 19 - 23rd November 2001
 "We're saving the web, but not the cats"
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 : CATS ARE EVIL
   What is it with the Internet & cats? Why do
   people keep sending B3ta sites about cats?
   It appears that animals go in & out of fashion.
   Back in '95 it was cows - more recently it was
   monkeys - and then came the kittens.
   Enough! No more cats.
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 According to superstitious old people, kittens
 born in the month of May will bring snakes into
 the house.
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 : KILL THE SPACE KITTENS
   In this extremely shit "fast-action shooty game"
   "I am sick of cats", says game creator Afroman,
   "and pleased that B3ta is standing up for the
   campaign against cats on the Internet."
   "For I know that cats are evil. And the voices
   tell me to kill them."
   Here's the result of Afroman's voices: a game
   which involves poking space kittens with a
   knife, making them explode.
 http://www.afroman.f2s.com/spacekitten/
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 Gerard Daigle, 80, from Canada lost a pint of
 blood after his cat Touti launched an attack.
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 : PSYCHO TECHNO HYPNO KITTEN SNAKE
   Play the Nokia snake game with a kitten.
   "I'm really bored of cats", says creator
   Joel Veitch, "and thought that if I created a
   game featuring a really really pretty one -
   I could put people off."
   Play it - it's aversion therapy:
 http://www.rathergood.com/snake/
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 A New Zealand man drowned after falling into
 his pet cat's water bowl.
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 : THE TOUCHING STORY OF SPEEDY THE KITTEN
  
   Speedy is a black and white kitten who was
   born without a pelvis.
   To enable him to walk - vet Dr. Edwin Jeszenka
   constructed him a cart made from the childrens
   toy.
   Look at him and laugh cruelly:
 http://www.geocities.com/speedykitten/
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 The Scilly Isles has no cats.
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 : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
   Results - winner - new challenge.
   Each week we run a competition to test your
   creative skills. We find an image, and you
   make our brain explode by mucking it up.
   Last week was Dr. Harold Shipman
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/haroldshipman/
   The winner? Matt Leach's "Roger Moore"
 http://www.ingenium.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3tashit/...
   This weeks challenge? : A kitten. Obviously.
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/kitten/
   (BTW: Our site was down for most of this
   week. We've now changed server - and we're
   back. Yay.)
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 There is a cat in Canada with 26 toes. It's evil.
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 : LINK OF THE WEEK
   Secret Santa.
   Want to swap Christmas presents a random person
   who you've never met? Then you need Secret
   Santa.
   "The idea of Secret Santa is very simple - you
   pull a name out of a hat and buy that person a
   present," says co-creator Tom. "Your name is in
   the hat as well, so in return you get a present
   from someone else. Easy!"
   "The site uses Amazon wishlists to make everything
   run smoothly and is designed to be a nice way for
   people running personal sites on the net to
   spread the love."
   Go on - at least it doesn't contain cats:
 http://www.thinkblank.com/santa/
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 Seeing a black cat brings bad luck. Spitting
 on it reverses this.
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 : NEXT WEEK
   The cats strike back ...
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