we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 42: "FOOTBALL VS. ART" next issue » « previous issue This Week: - Football Game - Football Fan or Racist Quiz - B3ta Steals The Turner Prize ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > Celebrity or Look-alike Quiz << After last week's morally dubious Jailbait or Legal quiz we thought we'd return to much safer ground. Can you tell the difference between celebrities and their look-alikes? http://b3ta.com/celebrityorlookalike/ >> Pie Animation << Weebl -who brought you The Cheese Family- has been making animations about Pies. They're great. http://www.weebl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3ta/pie.htm... >> Big Brother contestant is a div << B3ta reader David Nattriss has been watching the UK reality show Big Brother 3. He enjoyed the bit where contestant Jade revealed her ignorance of UK geography. She says, "I'm confused. I thought Cambridge was in London. I knew Birmingham weren't in London, but I thought Cambridge was in London." David has recorded the whole conversation for your enjoyment. http://natts.com/jade-geography.mp3 ------------------------------------------------- : HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY Buy a Mitten for your Kitten. A kitten mitten is a glove with long fingers with balls at the tips. They are designed so that you can playfully torment your cat without getting scratched. They only cost $6.99, and we'd really love you to buy one, play with your cat and send us some photos. http://www.vegancats.com/cattoys.html ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2 Marmite survey, Cats and Paintbrush Drawings >> Do you like Marmite?<< B3ta reader Phin Pope is engaged in the eternal debate of whether people like Marmite (black salty stuff that UK people put on their toast.) He's gone as far as setting up TWO websites to canvass your opinion. http://www.ilovemarmite.co.uk http://www.ihatemarmite.co.uk >> Dear God no! Another cat animation << B3ta reader Hooty Owl has given us this operatic cat animation. It's worth sticking through, as it has some unexpected bits. http://www.ultraville.com/flash/cats.html >> Paintbrush Drawings << Are you sick of all the Photoshop nonsense that B3ta gets up to? Board member Bananaman has been making all his work only using the crappy drawing package that comes with Windows. It gives his work a naive charm. http://members.lycos.co.uk/magicalbananaman/mine.h... ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Texttwist Anagram Game << We're utterly addicted to this anagram game and managed to score about 36,000 on it. http://games.yahoo.com/games/texttwist.html >> How Americans see the World<< This old but gold map of the world still makes us laugh. http://members.lycos.co.uk/magicalbananaman/bush_w... >> ASCII Penis Kittens go Wild << This inexplicable Japanese animation did our heads in. In a good way. http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~helpme/flash/chinko_anesan.... ------------------------------------------------- : BOOTLEG MP3 OF THE WEEK 30 Eminem Bootlegs. Golly. Each week we talk to the_dr at Boom Selection about his current favourite bootleg track. the_dr writes - "Thought we'd do something different this week. "We are getting lots and lots of 'Without Me' bootlegs, so I decided to make a mini-site just for them. You can vote on your favourites and there's even instructions on how to make your own." http://www.base58.com/withoutme/ (BTW: We were worried last week that the site had gone AWOL. No worries. It was just undergoing a change of address.) ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from Jubilee 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 Jubilee crockery. http://b3ta.com/challenge/jubilee/ We've asked B3ta boarder Dr Phil Kitten to judge the entries - here are her 3 faves. Dr Phil writes - #1 Brian May Mug Sugar Dispenser "I don't like Queen, and I don't even take sugar in my tea, but I still want one of these. http://milhouse.members.pupiline.net/b3ta/kweenmug... #2 The Gold Kween Jooberly Mug (Six50) "I like lo-fi and this really made me giggle. Particularly the Slade-esque spelling of Kween." http://milhouse.members.pupiline.net/b3ta/kweenmug... #3 Stripping Queen Mug (Salmon of Knowledge) "I'd buy one of these, wouldn't you? But is that really what Lizzie looks like under her clothes?" http://naxtek.com/mug.gif >> This Weeks Challenge << This week, B3ta contributor LumpBucket gave us the suggestion, "B3ta should hijack the UK modern art competition, The Turner Prize." And so we are. We're nicking it. http://b3ta.com/challenge/turnerprize/ (BTW: Can anyone find us Tracy Emin? We'd really like her to judge our Turner Prize) ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. This newsletter now reaches over 27,000 people - if you are in it, then people will see your stuff. It's that simple. Stuff we'd really like to see includes * Are you a famous? Say hello. 80s popstar Steve Strange sent us fan mail the other day. Fancy! * Reviews of weird/cheap stuff you've bought on-line * Games, animations and odd projects Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------- REMEMBER! UK newsletter NTK is running their Extreme Computing nerd fest on Sunday. 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