we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "MY PIG'S GOT NO NOSE. HOW DOES IT SMELL? DISGRUNTLED." next issue » « previous issue "My pig's got no nose. How does it smell? Disgruntled." This Week: * LONELY ANIMATION - To make you sob like a child * DANNY DYER - Pwopa nortily updated for Alexa * CHALLENGE - Put monsters in non-monster films ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're thinking about ___/ _ |/_ > This week: Monster Films << There's never enough monster movies, so lets make all the normal films feature classic creatures from horror cinema. Why not photoshop a poster for "And Godzilla Created Woman" and make us shit ourselves with The Diary of Anne Frankenstein. https://www.b3ta.com/challenge/monsterfilms/popula... ------------------------------------------------- Free idea for the People newspaper. Employ a journalist called Will. The column name writes itself. ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates * PORK CYLINDERS - Someone has actually tried the Brian Butterfield diet and lost an impressive 12 pounds. Although they also say "While it was amusing to complete the diet, it was definitely the worst idea I've had in some time." https://www.yorkvision.co.uk/scene/lifestyle/my-we... * NATURAL REVERB - People breaking into abandoned oil storage tanks to explore the echo. Best bit is at 5:15 where three people clapping sounds like a whole crowd. TIP: You can decent reverb for some vocals by sticking your head in the washing machine. Really. Try it. We have. https://www.youtube.com/watch * HOW TO MAKE A GIRL SMILE - wonderful video from a straight faced man trying to use music to make a woman crack up. https://www.b3ta.com/links/How_to_make_a_girl_smil... * LGBT VIDEO GAME ARCHIVE - basically The Celluloid Closet for video games. Some entries are a bit tenuous, but there's loads of interesting ones. Caper in the Castro one is a real curio, and the SimCopter easter egg is amusing. https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/ * A STRAIGHT UP GOOD GAG. Reads like a Garth Marenghi intro. https://twitter.com/joboyley/status/10479180404473... * MINI REPLICAS OF LONELY DEATHS - strange, upsetting art that replicates scenes from Japan where people have died and not been found for weeks because of social isolation. Happy newsletter time kids! http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2018/10/03/miyu-kojima... ------------------------------------------------- No Netflix series should be allowed to go to series 2. ------------------------------------------------- : HEADLINES OF THE WEEK Sentences from the world's finest journalists * "Reading dog finds fame after 'urinating on Jacob Rees Mogg' at people's vote Brexit march" (inyourarea.co.uk) * "Police called to 'suspicious' sock near Leicester school" (Leicester Mercury) * "Woman with emotional support squirrel ejected from plane" (Sky News) * "Man on meth bathes naked in holy water before masturbating during church service" (NZ Herald) * "Billingham mum claims she has a vortex in her son's bedroom controlled by a spirit called 'The Fat Controller'" (Teesside Live) * "Man fined after Shetland seal-touching row" (BBC) * "Does Billericay have the most expensive public toilet in the UK?" (Essex Live) Scaryduck book's now only £7.19, so what are you waiting for? http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07GL8ZDL... ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Follow-ups on previous stories * THE INTERNET IS STILL NOT BRITISH DESPITE BREXIT - Atmarsden95 writes, "An even clearer indicator that the Internet is written in American is that the Wikipedia article for the Sega Mega Drive is called 'Sega Genesis', which was ONLY its name in North America. Everywhere else calls it the Mega Drive." Ah who cares? The SNES was 400 times better. * LOL BBC - Mitchellstirling writes, "Loved the alternative foreign names for Dragon's Den in the latest newsletter. There is one that I also recently stumbled across. A few weeks ago in promoting BBC4's series of AI related programming they gave the keys to their Twitter account to an AI bot who came up with this when asked what was their favourite BBC2 show: Lizard House." * WEEKEND DIY PROJECT - Varmint writes, "Found a vid on the Adam Savage Tested channel where they take a cheap plastic skull and turn it into a burnt, severed horror head. I thought I'd have a go." https://www.b3ta.com/links/Weekend_DIY_project ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Make stuff and we'll tell the world * MAKE AVERAGE MEDIA ENJOYABLE - What world needs is a review service that gives everything a bad review because the one way to truly enjoy a movie or book is to be told it's utterly worthless and then you discover it's quite ok really. * FRANKIE SAYS BOT - Retweet whatever Holly Johnson says as 'Frankie Say...." * A KICKSTARTER TO MAKE THIS WATCH REAL - man, what an incredible bit of geek jewellery it would be. https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1050016639360... Send your missives to: https://b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- : DO YOU NEED PR STUFF? Patreon ad thingie Do you want some PR? Maybe you want relations with the public? 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