we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 50: "THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTORBIKES" next issue » « previous issue This Week: - Motorbikes! - Film Tie-in Quiz - Fig rolls rated and reviewed ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > Fig Rolls! Reviewed! << Regular readers will know all about Nicey's obsession with biscuits. He brings both an engineer's precision and an enthusiast's delight to his writing. The latest is "the most comprehensive Fig Roll review ever." McVities? Are you reading this? Give Nicey a job tasting your biscuits. http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/fi... >> Where do they make balloons? << Fat Boab has been listening to They Might Be Giants and made this flash video for one of their songs. It's a sweet little thing with a charming mood. http://comedy.allinfoabout.com/balloons.html >> How cats cause hurricanes << Fnord thinks cats are responsible for the weather. He claims to have satellite footage that proves it. We found his animation amusing and strangely hypnotic. http://www.fnord.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/spinme.htm ------------------------------------------------- : HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY THIS WEEK Buy This Man a Hooker Brian is a virgin and lives with his sister. He's asking you to donate $1 so that he can buy sex with a prostitute. OK - the site is obviously a joke, but who is the money really going to? And does Brian really exist? Get in touch if you know. http://www.buymeahooker.com/ BTW: Have you bought anything cool online? Send your stories to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2 Horrid stuff that'll make you go "yuck" >> Are you on the blob? A scientific survey << When women live together their menstrual cycles synchronise. We were wondering if the same thing happened to all the women that use the web. Our survey is only one click and features some lovely songs. It's been open for 5 days, and we've established that 1st of August was the Internet's blobbiest day. http://b3ta.com/are-you-on-the-blob/ >> Nasty skin close-up photos << Glitzer emailed us from Switzerland about his site. He takes close up photographs of people's body parts. It's both arty and icky. http://www.glitzer.ch/haut/ >> Harold Shipman Kick-ups << Abyss Williams has taken the Kick-ups game and remade it with Harold Shipman's head. We like the ominous sound effects. http://www.mediapill.com/features/fun_arena/keepit... ------------------------------------------------- : WHERE I LURK Freddy Woo on "Cook'd and Bomb'd" People pass time on the web in different ways. Some people like links, some read news, others watch message boards. Each week we ask a B3ta reader where they like to lurk. Freddy Woo writes - "Cook'd and Bomb'd is a Chris Morris fan site. But it's better than that. The people on this board are funny in their own right. The best bit is that they have a shit load of bandwidth and host tons of weird MP3s found by the contributors. "This thread is about the worst records ever made, and is jam-packed with really unusual music to download. There's enough stuff here to burn a CD that would clear any dance floor." http://makeashorterlink.com/ BTW: Where do you lurk? We'd like you to contribute to this section. Send a couple of paragraphs to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Free Glitter Band T-Shirt << Gary Glitter is a disgraced UK pop star who recently fled the country after serving a jail sentence for possession of child pornography. We feel sorry for his backing band who are obviously having PR difficulties. They are offering free Glitter Band T-shirts to anyone who is prepared to pay the P&P. It would make a great present for your special uncle. We've ordered five. http://www.glitterband.fsnet.co.uk/tshirt.html >> Convert your server into a fridge << Matthijs Mourits works for a large IT company. One day he noticed that they were throwing away the casing for an old Silicon Graphics server. At that moment he had a vision "of a world where server and refrigerator could co-exist." It looks great. It's also surprisingly stylish. http://home.planet.nl/~mourits/koelkast/ >> Girls! Never buy tampons again! << "The Keeper" is a rubber cup that you shove up your vagina to catch your menstrual flow. This sounds deeply weird and possibly dangerous to us. But we could be wrong. http://www.keeper.com/ >> Lego Machine Gun << Lego is for kids right? Wrong. There's a thriving scene of adult Lego enthusiasts on the Internet making models of astonishing complexity. This model of the H&K MP5 would probably get you shot by the police if you took it outside. http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/H&K_MP5/H&K_... >> Porn Clerk Diaries << We don't like reading online. We've seen this link turn up pretty much everywhere. We even overheard someone in the pub saying they were submitting it as an idea for a new TV show. So we finally got round to reading it. It's fantastic. http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php ------------------------------------------------- : MP3 OF THE WEEK An E.P from Braces Tower AKA Paul Thorpe Remember Paul Thorpe? He's a B3ta contributor who found fame by making a Big Brother themed track which ended up being played on Radio 1. He's now put together a 4 track EP that's available to download via the Mono211 site. They've given him a rather nice write up too. Go Paul! http://www.mono211.com/content/releases/m211mp28.h... BTW: The_dr is away. ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from the "Eighth Wonder" 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 for you to create the Eighth Wonder of the World. http://b3ta.com/challenge/eighthwonder/ We asked B3ta boarder Tomsk to judge the entries - here are his 3 faves. Tomsk writes - #1 "Stonehenge Domino Rally - Nice animation of wanton destruction. (MisterAlfie) http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/2/9/1/3/1/ #2 "Statue of Liberty - on wheels. (Taz_etc) http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/3/1/4/5/3/ #3 "Sagrada Familia - with extra Fish. (Scubadog) http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/2/9/3/0/0/ >> This Week's Challenge << This week, B3ta contributor LumpBucket gave us the suggestion, "Take the back off the clock. How do things really work?" http://b3ta.com/challenge/howstuffreallyworks/ ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Follow-ups on previous stories. * MTV is in talks with Weebl about his pie animations. * THAMES TV is in talks with Joel from Rathergood about creating characters for a new website. * Remember the Get Stu a Job site? We asked the site whether Stu had got a job and they said, "Fat chance!" ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. Stuff we'd really like to see includes * Where you lurk * Things to buy * Your latest stuff Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------- THANKS: Stuart Riddell, Happy fan in Florida, LuftWaffle, Dan Armstrong, Stunt, 40056 and David Stevenson for helping edit the issue. next issue » « previous issue Newsletter We run a free weekly B3TA email reporting on the coolest stuff on the net. _____________________ [ go ] -------------------- THIS WEEKS HEADLINES -------------------- * TYPE-IN MAGAZINE - LAUNCHED FOR YOUR FINGERS * AI SLOP - GET READY TO OINK FOR IT, PIGGIES * GET WELL SOON - WISHING WELL TO DAVE BAGPUSS READ LATEST ISSUE archive