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 This Week:
 - Female or Shemale Challenge
 - Get Tony Hart to draw you an animal
 - B3ta Appeal - we've made it
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 B3ta email 32 - 29 MARCH 2002 - "We're saving the
                                 web ... together"
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 : FEMALE OR SHEMALE CHALLENGE
   Can you tell?
   Last week we were surfing the net and noticed
   a link that said "Can you spot the shemale?"
   We thought, "Aha. What a good interesting
   idea for a quiz."
   We followed the link, and it took us to some
   crappy cartoon that presented three cartoon
   ladies and a magic cup game.
   "What a load of rubbish", we thought, "Let's
   show them how to do it properly."
   So we did.
 http://b3ta.com/femaleorshemale/
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 : B3TA APPEAL - UPDATE
   We've made it!
   What a fantastic couple of weeks. It's been
   magic that everyday that we get up, the
   postman has bought us more cheques.
   It's been like Christmas everyday.
   We've now got enough cash to move server to
   a Texan ISP called rackshack.net, and fingers
   crossed, it'll all work out.
   Thanks to everyone who contributed, and a
   special thanks to Cal Henderson from iamcal.com
   who both programmed all the tricksy stuff that
   runs the site and has also agreed to handle the
   server change over.
   So it's three woos for Cal, and three woos for
   you.
  
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 : HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY THIS WEEK
   Get Tony Hart to draw you an animal
   Childrens TV Artists Tony Hart is much loved
   in the UK. Many of us remember him fondly
   from their childhood.
   Tony has now set up a small ecommerce operation
   to sell his drawings.
   Simply send him £24, and the name of an animal
   and he'll draw it.
   How cool is that?
 http://www.tonyhart.nildram.co.uk/merchandise.htm
   (BTW: We are interested in mentioning more
   cool products for sale. Please send
   suggestions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/)
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 : MP3 of the week
   MC Pitman - Pitman Says
   Coming on like a young Sean Ryder, the
   offensive and hilarious MC Pitmans raps about
   biscuits and pikeys on council estates.
 http://www.sonrecords.com/audio.html (scroll down)
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 : PENGUINS, POLAR BEARS & RANDOM SWEARING
   Together at last - in one great game.
   There are some that say the b3ta in-joke games
   have gone too far, but we say that you haven't
   seen this yet. It's time to play 3D breakout
   pong with penguins, polar bears & random
   swearing.
   Say thanks to board member Doktored for this bit
   of er... utterly taking the piss.
   He says, "I am the foul mouthed third member
   of an Islington creative design company. When
   we're not chasing clients for unpaid cheques
   we mostly like drawing sexy cartoon dogs."
   Play the game - it's plays well. 
 http://www.noisytoys.tv/b3ta/furtivewallball.swf
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 : THE WOO AND YAY ANIMATION
   B3ta culture eats it's self. Again.
   A recent phenomenon on the b3ta board, is people
   showing approval to good images by following
   them with a small "woo and yay" animation.
   Penguins shouting woo - that type of thing.
   These are becoming increasingly sophisticated,
   almost like graffiti tagging.
   Board member FatBoab has glued them all together
   into one animation, with music supplied by
   other board member Spacefish.
   The music is it's self a cut up bootleg of many
   of the tunes used on different B3ta projects.
   The end result is peculair, but rather
   entertaining.
   BTW: It's a 3.5MB download. You'll need a
   fast link to appreciated it.
 http://www.design4online.com/b3ta/woo.swf
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 : SITES IN BRIEF
   Benny, heroin & Andrew Washington MP3
   B3ta reader Neilmg got in touch and said, "Do
   you remember that old schoolyard joke 'Are you
   a benny tied to a tree?' Well, I had a member
   of my staff put this site together in honour
   of that oft overlooked classic."
 http://www.benny-tree.co.uk
   Something to read: a moving desciption of a
   father losing his son to heroin addiction.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,675215,0...
   Can you tell Japanese, Chinese and Korean
   people apart? Take this test and find out if you
   are as politically correct as you think you are.
 http://www.alllooksame.com/
   ERRATUM! Many readers got in touch last week
   to say that the Andrew Washington bootleg MP3
   had been taken down. Here is a working link.
   It's still fantastic. 
 http://b3ta.com/files/thorpe.mp3
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 : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
   Results - T-shirt winner - Easter 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 to design T Shirts.
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/hell/
   The winner? There were so many good entries
   that this it's impossible to choose. But we
   would love to wear this Atari Battlezone
   tshirt from modesty_b_cat. It's fantastic.
 http://www.fluffykittens.com/b3ta/battlezone.gif
   This week's challenge? Easter eggs are so
   boring. Design some new Easter mechandise for
   Jesus.
 http://b3ta.com/challenge/easter/
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 : NINE MORE GREAT T-SHIRT DESIGNS
   Because one winner wasn't enough.
   Great Sinclair Spectrum design (binster)
 http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/1/4/7/3/
   Pronstar - a nice rip off of the Pornstar
   t-shirts. (modesty_b_cat)
 http://www.fluffykittens.com/b3ta/pr0nstar2.gif
   Pic of Jesus on the cross, says "don't bite
   your nails" Nice for Easter. (lurker_no_more)
 http://www.thosebears.com/b3ta/nailsb3ta.jpg
   Status Quo tour shirt. We like this one alot
   - wouldn't wanna wear it though. (Grinfish)
 http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/9/3/0/2/
   Is B3ta finished? (witchy)
 http://www.vorbis.demon.co.uk/quotee1.jpg
   In the style of an old Slayer T-shirt,
   "Sidcup, welcome to the dark sie of Kent"
   (wilsonc001)
 http://wilsonc001.members.easyspace.com/images/sid...
   Arrow pointing to wearers head - says "I'm
   with stupid" (Captin Kimbo)
 http://kimbo-be-coo.com/im-with-stupid.jpg
   Great geeky shirt with lots of html tags.
   (grinfish)
 http://www.grinfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/be...
   For the self loathing web author, a shirt
   with <big><div> on it.
 http://www.tomandphil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tomsk/t...
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 : NICE PEOPLE HELPING SAVE B3TA:
   We kiss you!
   Elizabeth Pacey, D J McEvoy, Pistol Pete,
   LumpBucket, New_Matt, Woodchuck Matthew Potter,
   PeterSeychelles, Stuart Parkins, ScruffyOik,
   Mister Al, GE BLOXHAM.
   BTW: Sorry if we missed you out. We haven't
   got the records to hand - we'll mention you
   next week.
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   We're saving the web - and we need your help.
 http://b3ta.com/board/
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