we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 41: "JAILBAIT OR LEGAL" next issue » « previous issue This Week: - Jailbait or Legal Quiz - Name the Baby. The Results. - Jubilee Challenge ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > Drum'n'Bass animation << Boarder Tomsk has made two short and sweet drum'n'bass animations. http://tinyurl.com/9uh >> Beer Clock << B3ta boarder Breel has been making a Beer Clock. You simply type in the time you wish to go for a beer, and it'll play an annoying alarm. Useful for making sure you get everyone to go for a drink after work. http://www.what-ever.co.uk/time/ >> Biscuit of the Week << Have you ever looked at B3ta regular Nicey's site? Each week he reviews biscuits. It's both authoritative and funny. http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/we... ------------------------------------------------- : NAME THE BABY UPDATE The results are in. A couple of weeks ago, our friend Stu asked you to supply names for his new baby. And you did. 1,334 times. Interestingly men tended to choose boys names while women chose more names for girls. Er.. and someone else chose "Yogurt". You can read all the names here. http://www.fatskier.com/b3tababy/ ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2 Otter Pics, Ear Socks, Pants & Tourettes >> Otter Photos << Flibz has found some nice otters and took photos of them. Lovely. http://www.flibz.com/otters/ >> Ear Socks<< Nacho has made a page where you can add ear socks to photos of her friends. Ear Socks? Yep. There are socks. For ears. http://www.snakemountain.co.uk/breel.htm >> Without My Pants << Hugo Rune has made a page that takes other sites and puts "without my pants" at the end of every sentence in a web page. He says this is "Funnier than it should be." http://www.design4online.com/twat/twist.asp >> Tourettes Acronym Generator << Boarder Zetsumetsu has made a tool to convert acronyms into their true meaning. So SAT becomes "Shitting Anus Todger." His tool speaks the truth. http://www27.brinkster.com/quee0076/TAG.asp ------------------------------------------------- : HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY Buy Collapse! Collapse is the crack of computer games, and it's now available for the PalmPilot. It costs $15 - and will destroy your life. http://www.astraware.com/palm/collapse/ ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Freak your friends with email << This is an art project that allows you to assume a man called David Stills identity and send email to your friends. It's quite odd - and the results can really take people in. http://www.davidstill.org >> Silly Dancing Thing << Yeah yeah. Dancing web pages are boring, we've seen it all before - but this one is nicely animated and you can control the dancers with your keyboard to very pleasing effects. http://www.imaru.co.uk/ >> Extreme Computing << UK newsletter NTK has organised a computing conference celebrating UK grass roots creativity. That sounds right up our street. We'll be checking it out. (Sunday 9th June 2002) http://www.xcom2002.com/ ------------------------------------------------- : BOOTLEG MP3 OF THE WEEK Get your lyrics recorded by an invalid. Normally we ask Boomselection for their favourite MP3, but their site has been down all week and they haven't sent us any email. We hope they haven't been shut down. Anyway, we've been making our own music at B3ta instead. Board member Koit is currently recuperating after an operation. To fill his time he's been taking lyric submissions and recording them as songs. It's all quite wonderful - and we particularly recommend the Hypno Cat song to fans of early 90s indie/dance crossover. Koit is also looking for new lyric ideas - so send him some. http://www.koit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3tasong.htm ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from David Blaine 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 wanted you to make ideas for new challenges for David Blaine. http://b3ta.com/challenge/musical/ We've asked B3ta coder Cal to judge the entries - here are his top 3. Cal writes - #3 "Have you heard about the women who walked to the North Pole in special body suits? All they needed was fucksocks. (rufus) http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/1/9/6/6/3/ #2 "It would surely be a trick if he could make Lord of the Rings exciting. (Daniel Fard) http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/1/5/8/0/9/ #1 "This is so primary school that's it's fantastic." (Monkeon) http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/1/4/5/8/5/ >> This Weeks Challenge << This week, B3ta contributor Lucy Reese gave us the suggestion, "Can you make some commemorative crockery for the Queens Golden Jubilee. " http://b3ta.com/challenge/jubilee/ ------------------------------------------------- : BEST OF B3TA - CHTHONIC SPECIAL Celebrating his genius through his work. Chthonic - AKA Mike Trinder has been an important part of B3ta history. A few weeks ago he gave your his H & Claire levitation game - here are some of his greatest stuff from the past. Mike writes - >> Keyboard Sumo Game << "Requiring naked aggression and a good supply of keyboards - we broke mine testing this. http://www.chthonic.f9.co.uk/sumo/ >> Hawking & Davros Animation / Song<< "True love exists in the boring, ordinary things you do together. http://b3ta.com/hawking/ >> Wendy Craig Swears << "Wendy always appears to be prim and proper, and yet I'm sure there some foul mouthed nastiness boiling away in there somewhere." http://www.chthonic.f9.co.uk/wendy/ ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. This newsletter now reaches over 26,000 people - if you are in it, then people will see your stuff. It's that simple. 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