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 This Week:
 - Fake Someone's Death
 - Osymyso Interviewed
 - Design an Animal for the B3ta Zoo
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 B3ta email 29 - 01 MARCH 2002 - "We're saving the web"
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 : FAKE SOMEONE'S DEATH
   It's back!
   Last year, the most fantastic thing on the
   Internet was a tool that allowed you to make
   a fake news report about someone's death.
   It got half a million users in 1 weekend, and
   was so naughty that lawyers were crawling
   over it in days.
   And now? Web nutter Flibz has brought it
   back.
   Please note: this tool is destructive, illegal
   and will not be up for long.
   So have fun while you can:
 http://flibz.dns2go.com/dead/
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   NERD JOKE: Following Jonathan King's imprisonment,
   police are investigating Adobe for their links
   to PDF files.
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 : OSYMYSO INTERVIEW
   The King of Boots speaks to B3ta.
   Osymyso makes bootleg MP3s - i.e. he mixes bits
   of old songs together to make new tracks.
   He said, "Your site is like my stuff. The message
   board people mix stuff up, and buzz off it."
   Read it in full.
 http://b3ta.com/people/osymyso/
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   B3TA SALUTES: PHONE SPAMMERS
   Hoaxers forced Downing Street to change their
   phone number by sending text messages to
   thousands of mobile phones saying, "Hi mate,
   phone me ASAP, crap signal in this pub. If
   I don't answer, ask for Tony who runs the
   place." Respect.
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 : SITES IN BRIEF
   More good links that we've seen this week.
   Lengthy, but stylish animation of a running egg.
 http://www.kickbin.com/ocean/exp_doubleyolker.html
   Eija-Riitta Eklöf-Berliner-Mauer is sexually and
   emotionally attracted to objects. In 1979 she
   married the The Berlin Wall.
 http://www.geocities.com/berlinwall_se/
   Unchained Melody - this pushes the misheard
   lyric idea further by attempting to mishear
   almost every lyric in the song.
 http://tommymackay.tripod.com/unchained.htm
   All the pics from the Tiffany Playboy shoot.
 http://www.tokisip.com/pb/tiff/
   Get your B3ta penguin wallpaper here.
 http://sasquatch.5u.com/images/monguincopterloveop...
   Can you code a website in 256bytes? Some of the
   fractal entries are mind boggling.
 http://wildmag.de/compo.php
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 : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
   Results - winner - new challenge.
   Each week we run a competition to test your
   creative skills. We set a challenge and you open
   Photoshop and mess with our heads.
   Last week we asked you for ideas on new sports
   for the Winter Olympics.
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/olympics/
   The winner? Pabulums "How Penguins Learned
   to Fly."
 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/pix/flying...
   This week's challenge? We want you to design
   an animal for the B3ta zoo.
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/zoo/
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 : AND FINALLY
   The animal interest story.
   Latvian Ministry of Defence has admitted that
   it spends 71% more feeding its dogs than its
   human soldiers. As no one in Latvia makes dog
   food, they have to import it.
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 http://b3ta.com/board/
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