we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "ONLY 69 SLEEPS UNTIL BREXIT!" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * JEFF MINTER - Film announcement * CHALLENGE RESULTS - Badly named movies * JOHN HIGGS - KLF biographer does new book ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're shitting up the ___/ _ |/_ > This week: Game of the film << Games based on films have a chequered past, let's celebrate this hit and miss (mainly miss) genre with our own movie tie-ins. Give modern films a C64 makeover or turn Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in to a type in adventure. http://b3ta.com/challenge/gameofthefilm ------------------------------------------------- We've thought up some spare Britpop band names for you: Derek Swirl Orthopaedic shoe The Collars Iffy Radartummy Fancy Salon Tom (band) The Catherines Lovely Lambert & Butler Haberdashery Calamari Sniff Roach The Hairdressers Lettuce Chiffon Clap ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Some inspiration to start you off * ANNOYOBOT 2000 - Register 50 odd accounts; stick them on padlock; have them all autofav your enemies tweets. It'll drive people mad going "who are all these people faving my tweets that I can't see?" * BEST OF SHIT LOCAL FACEBOOK BLOG - Why not join your local community Facebook group so you get a phone notification every time a stranger in a 2 mile radius moans about the bins? * A BUTTON TO TURN OFF THE INTERNET - not quite sure how it would work, maybe it could start by logging into your Twitter account and blocking everyone who tweets. * CHECKOUT MY CLOUD SOUNDS - A podcast where someone actually listens to all the Soundclouds promoted in the wake of the one funny tweet going viral. 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