we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "WHAT'S THICK AND LIVES ON A GLOBE? A FLAT-EARTHER" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * TOOL - Have you tweeted more than Shakespeare? * ANOTHER TOOLS - Convert yourself into triangles * DANCE - Like a groovy soviet ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're stinking up the ___/ _ |/_ > Have you tweeted more words than Shakespeare? << Monkeon writes, "I made a new calculator/challenge, which was mostly inspired by [redacted]'s inability to stop tweeting despite obviously having had an intervention from his wife." Which book have you tweeted more words than? https://www.monkeon.co.uk/beatproustswordcount/ >> Come to the triangle zone << Jonty Wareing writes, "I made a thing that converts you into triangles, because geometric people are better people." We found this fun, a bit like trying to crack one out to Chocky. https://twitter.com/jonty/status/11700861672719196... >> Look at some shit gifs << To celebrate @geocitiesgifbot reaching 3,000 followers your editor thought he'd do a quick thread of some of his favourite gifs that the randomiser code has found along the way, when it's not accidentally posting porn. https://twitter.com/geocitiesgifbot/status/1168566... >> Buy Happy Toast's brexit book < HappyToast's publication "So you've gone and done a Brexit: A Govern-mental booklet on surviving food shortages, making your own medicine and sacrificing loved ones" probably merits a push given news events. So here's the push. C'mon everyone PUSH! https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/17989002... ------------------------------------------------- Ironically, Mary Beard is the only member of ZZ Top without a history degree. ------------------------------------------------- : EGG POD DOES NICKY CAMPBELL On George Harrison's 33 & 1/3rd Chris Shaw is going from strength to strong mints with his superb Beatles podcast and we're mentioning this episode specifically as it gives us an opportunity to role out a small anecdote about Nicky Campbell. Your editors first ever media(ish) job was working on a TV pilot with Campbell in 1995 and we quizzed him about how he predicted people's star signs on his radio 1 show at the time. His answer has always stuck with us: "the researcher asks when their birthday is." Genius, really. https://twitter.com/IAmTheEggPod/status/1169646028... ------------------------------------------------- Calling it spagbol is only acceptable if you also call Tony Hadley's old band spanbal. ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Content from people outside the B3ta universe * SOVIET SOLDIERS DANCING - we particularly like the Joy Division one, https://twitter.com/communistbops * MADNESS TAKE YOU ON A TOUR OF CAMDEN - lovely video were the nutty gents take you round their old haunts in Camden. All old bands should do this. We want Miles Hunt taking us round Wolverhampton and Simon Le Bongo guiding us around Brum. https://www.youtube.com/watch * CUTE PLATFORM GAME - we played this for a good ten mins before deciding we should get on with procrastinating on social media. https://kongregate.com/games/eddynardo/hasty-shama... * HOW FAR CAN YOU GET IN THIS GAME BEFORE IT REBOOTS? Nicely designed retro minigames thing. If you don't read the instructions, then you need to know that the first answer is Toolkit. https://levimoore.itch.io/only-one-minute-before-r... * EVERYTHING A DEVELOPER HAS GOOGLED IN A WEEK - not particularly b3taish but interesting; our list would be terrifyingly long and very little to do with work. https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i- googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software- engineer/ * THE TRUE HORROR OF GREGGS - cooking with human sound effects needs to be a bigger thing. https://twitter.com/Meadbymead/status/116855325846... ------------------------------------------------- Say what you like about Boris Johnson but some of it would be actionable as libel because the law protects the powerful. ------------------------------------------------- : IMAGE CHALLENGE Getting Old Here's the best images from last week: * NOSFERATU by Bananaworld http://b3ta.com/board/11293963 * HOME ALONE by S4RK http://b3ta.com/board/11293882 * ROBOCO from Pizopop http://b3ta.com/board/11293758 * See all the other images from the 'Getting Old' challenge: https://b3ta.com/challenge/gettingold/popular/ >> This week: Music Toys << Hasbro have bought Death Row Records so we can hopefully look forward to Dr Dre's Guess Who and Snoop's spliff shaped Jenga set any day now. Celebrate this meeting of cultural minds with your own range of music/album/song based toys. http://b3ta.com/challenge/musictoys ------------------------------------------------- Home tapping is killing plumbers. ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S NEWSLETTER Make history with the newsletter of record * NEW VIZ STRIPS - 'Surrender Bill' could be a new character in an alarmingly right-wing reboot of Viz * THE PEANUTS STRIP ON YOUR BIRTHDAY IS YOUR LIFE HOROSCOPE - this sort of works as it's all introspective anxiety. * WOULD YOU PASS AN ETON ENTRANCE EXAM? - do a pop quiz version of this. Might be fun and shareable with cunts. https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/116819288576... Send your missives to: https://b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- The Northern Line was cancelled this week. We dread to think what it tweeted. ------------------------------------------------- : FOLLOW UPS What happened next to the b3tan generation * AMUSED TO GET A SHOUT OUT FROM RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - although truth be told, when we looked into it, it's because an old B3tan is running their social media. https://twitter.com/RATM/status/116969334088921088... ------------------------------------------------- What idiot called it "advanced driver-assistance system" instead of autocorrect? ------------------------------------------------- : YAY WE HAVE A NEW(ISH-ISH) NEWSLETTER SPONSOR Mediamasters Podcast Paul Blanchard has got in touch to sponsor the newsletter "My primary purpose is to see you prosper! Love your work" and also promote his podcast. 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