we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 45: "DEATH TO ALL PUPPIES" next issue » « previous issue This Week: - Toss the Puppy - B3ta's first birthday - Shemale kittens - B3ta shop ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > B3ta Shop - buy our crap << We've asked some board members to make items for a B3ta shop including a Fred West clock and a mug that states "All consultants are scum." The profits go to the designers of the items. http://b3ta.com/shop/ >> Car Wheel Theft << Blimey. Someone nicked his wheels and left the car propped up on Yellow Pages. This speaks volumes about London. Thanks Simon Waterfall and his photographer mate Tig. http://www.technicola.co.uk/yellow/ >> Intimidating Finger Wallpaper << Want to stop people staring at your screen when you've gone for a piss? Install our fantastic wallpaper. Note: it won't work. http://64.246.28.104/jpg/B3TA-wallpaper.png ------------------------------------------------- : THE RATHERGOOD CORNER Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head Joel Veitch runs a site called Rathergood. He's our mate and we love his deranged work. Joel writes - "This week I've been listening to Kylie, and was inspired to make this." http://www.rathergood.com/kylie/ ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2 Thicko song, Bogey Game, Cockroach Documentary >> Send this to thick people << We've made a hugely offensive song and animation designed to be sent to your friends who can't spell. Made in the spirit of the stuff we used to hear as children at school and therefore utterly foul. http://b3ta.com/youcantspell/ >> Bogey Game << "Do you remember the playground rhyme Pick It Lick It Roll It Flick It", writes B3ta contributor Monkeon, "I've made it into a game." It's hard. You need to be more dextrous than us to win. http://www.monkeon.co.uk/snot/ >> Life as a Cockroach << Ever wondered what it would be like to be a cockroach? Reader Al reckons, "It's scuttlely", and has made this documentary style animation to prove it. http://thehouseplants.com/Roachlife.swf ------------------------------------------------- : BOOTLEG MP3 OF THE WEEK Electic Method - Bootleg Mix Promo Each week we talk to the_dr at Boom Selection about his current favourite bootleg track. the_dr writes - "Our site is down so I've selected something different this week. "This is a new thing. A bootleg video. Split screen music videos of Nirvana, Busta Rhymes, Basement Jaxx, Eurythmics, Queen, TLC, Dr Dre & Eminem. Sadly it's only 30 seconds long, previewing a 20 minute item to be released soon. http://makeashorterlink.com/ "Next week - some really exciting news! I'm dead chuffed." ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Wolfenstien 5k << Bloody hell. This is clever. It's a first person shooter that uses half the memory that this newsletter does. This is an entry to the 5k coding competition - which tests programmers abilities to do cool stuff in small amounts of memory. http://www.the5k.org/description.asp/entry_id=946 >> Google Vs. Art << Artist Christophe Bruno bought the ad space on Google and filled it with short poems. Google told him to stop. This is his story. http://www.iterature.com/adwords/ >> Send your name into space << The Japanese space program is asking for your name so that they can etch it on some tin foil and drop it on an asteroid. Cool. http://www.planetary.or.jp/muses-c/pc/en/index.htm... ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from "Nice Stuff" 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 stop taking the piss and give us figures of hatred doing nice things. http://b3ta.com/challenge/hatefigure/ We asked B3ta boarder TomDog to judge the entries - here are his 3 faves. TomDog writes - #1 "Saddam Holiday Snap. He's really enjoying himself. (tamagen) http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/6/7/7/0/4/ #2 "Clean Shaven Hitler. Creepy, looks like a sweetshop owner. (littlebean) http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/6/6/8/0/5/ #3 "Louise Woodward. Babies annoy me. (darryn.r)" http://www.b3ta.com/board/1/6/4/5/5/3/ >> This Weeks Challenge << This week we want ideas for executive stress toys. http://b3ta.com/challenge/executivetoys/ ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. This newsletter now reaches over 31,000 people - if you are in it, then people will see your stuff. It's that simple. Stuff we'd really like to see includes * Cool stuff to buy. * Silly projects that you've made. 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