we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "WHAT DO TITANIC AND SIXTH SENSE HAVE IN COMMON? ICY DEAD PEOPLE" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * TRAINS - Simulated, at last * FLASH - Dead, dead dead :( * KUNT - Now a top-ten artist ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're replacing the web ___/ _ |/_ > Music headline quiz << Monkeon writes "I have a new quiz / nostalgia generator. Rare for me in that it works using actual live data, rather than having to spend ages hand picking the questions. Via it, I discovered that on the day Diana died, the People's first edition had giant picture of Noel Gallagher's arse as their main photo story, with 'Di hurt and Dodi dead in smash' as a small secondary item. I will never forget where I was the day Noel mooned a pap." https://monkeon.co.uk/guessthepress/ >> Goodbye to Flash << So Flash has finally died and no longer plays in the browser. Watch Jonti "Badger Badger Badger" Picking sing goodbye. BTW: Flash died for us in 2010, as that was about the last time anyone paid us to make anything with it and then grumbled that it didn't work on iPhones. Steve Jobs, you fucked it lad! https://www.youtube.com/watch BTW: If you're really missing Flash then the Internet Archive is your friend: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash >> Kunt is now a top 10 artist << We were proud to help* Kunt reach no 5 in the charts with his festive ditty "Boris Johnson is a f**king c**t" - a statement you can get behind wherever you fall in the Brexit debate that's fucked our country for the last 5 years. (Hey we bunged out tweets, Facebook posts and stuck it on the B3ta front page - we helped a little bit.) http://borisjohnson.info/ >> To all those who died in 2020 << Dr Dunno AKA Chris Barker has done his traditional murdering of the celebs and dropping their faces into the 5th best Beatles LP. Hopefully 2021 will be a bumper year no more deaths - fingers crossed. Oh shit, we spoke too soon. https://twitter.com/hashtag/sgtpepper2020 >> Waterloo & City Line train simulator << Ed Jefferson has made a nerdy train sim. We enjoyed making people wait for trains. Small bits of shitbaggery are always fun. https://edjefferson.com/waterlooandcity/ ------------------------------------------------- This newsletter likes to pretend that Marylebone station is named after Simon Le Bon's sister. No one is amused by this but we persist. ------------------------------------------------- : FESSHOLE Your confessions, fessed up for cheap shares Every day we listen to your confessions about your tawdry lives and tweet out the ones that make us giggle or gawp. * WORK - "To fill a gap in my CV I've said that I was a guitarist for The Fall for a brief period. No-one has disputed this or even asked questions about it." * HAIR - "Just had a verbal warning for saying a lads haircut makes him look like Princess Diana. It's shit being a teacher." * LIFE - "Marriage teaches you a lot. Before I got married, I didn't know you could put milk in the fridge the wrong way." Now over 101,000 people follow Fesshole which means it's officially bigger than Jesus. Link goes to the best of November so share that if you can be arsed. https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/13403946402944... ------------------------------------------------- 9 million people die of starvation every year and Harry Potter does nothing. The absolute cunt. ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BEEF The delicious OXO taste of others' content * LEGO BRICKHEADS - Currently addicted to the Brick Experiment Channel which is stuffed with unlikely Lego whimsy like building a Lego press with 70KG of force, and this one about building a car to climb obstacles. Honestly we struggled to stop ourselves going straight on eBay about buying a load of old Technic. https://www.youtube.com/watch * SILENCE OF THE JAMS - Some of The KLF's back catalogue has appeared on YouTube and Spotify for streaming and honestly it feels good to say "Alexa, play The KLF" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbsEHtpoQxyWVibIP... * FUCKED UP AI HOMERS - The 'This X Does Not Exist' format has now reached the piss take stage. https://thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com * CLASSIC ART FILMS REMADE IN THE STYLE OF ATARI COMBAT - we suspect the audience is pretty limited, but we liked that they're film geek choices rather than anything obvious. https://pippinbarr.github.io/combat-at-the-movies/ * BREAD PLASTIC CLIP DATABASE - detailed classification of plastic clips used to close bread bags. At fucking last. http://horg.com/horg/ * INTERNET ART EXPERIMENT, REMEMBERED - Reddit's collaborative drawing experiment, The Place, happened nearly 4 years ago. This map explains all the different elements of it and their meaning - fascinating, not least because you rarely get internet culture archived and annotated like this. https://draemm.li/various/place-atlas/ ------------------------------------------------- PROJECT IDEA. A hypothesis for someone who likes data analysis to test: is there a correlation between sticking stuff about football in your profile and posting "didn't happen" to tweets? ------------------------------------------------- : BUY SOME BRITISH MADE JEANS Yes you, you scruffy oik Hebtro are ok in our book as they support our projects like Fesshole and B3ta - do make sure you buy their products. Thanks. https://hebtro.co/product/sweary-scarf/ ------------------------------------------------- People who use Blu Tack to stick pictures on walls - hanging is too good for them ------------------------------------------------- : IMAGE CHALLENGE Winter Albums Last week we were asking you to fuck around with LPs again and make them wintery. They're all snow good. https://b3ta.com/challenge/winteralbums/popular/ This week we're doing reverse Archaeology. http://b3ta.com/challenge/b3tenet/popular/ ------------------------------------------------- Remember 8 pm Thursday: clap if you're a massive Tory who thinks the Government is doing a great job. ------------------------------------------------- : PATREON THANKS We love all these people *HEBTROCO* *JAMES O'BRIEN* *KATE* *MARK MCCREADIE* *MR PHIL DONNELLY* *SHOWRAT* *SIMON JAMES* *STOOBERT* 24-7 DEATH, ALAN CHARLTON, ALISTAIR, BRIAN EELES, CHRIS BLAKENEY, CHRIS CARLINE, CHRIS LOCKE, CRISS MORENO, IAN SHEEN, JAIMIE VANDENBERGH, MARK ADAMSON, RICHARD BARCLAY, SPAZZCAPTAIN, WENDY GOODE, NAT KING COLESLAW, ALBERT MARSHMALLOW, DANIEL MUDFORD, CARL DENCH Ed Zitron, Eugenie vT, Tom Dolan, Tom Wright, lee burnett, Richard Matthias, @mattdawhit, Adam Atack, Adam Cooney, Adam Lloyd, Adrian Woodfield, Al Davidson, Albion Gray, Andy Storrar, Andy Tillett, Andy Webber, Anna, Anne-Marie Scott, Ben Watson, Bertram Wooster, blossomshed, Carl Morgan, Catherine McAllister, Chris Evans, Chris Shaw, Craig Tonks, Damien Smith, Dan Stott, Daniel Brown, Dave Nattriss, Dave Tickle, David Ault, David Catley, David Gardiner, David King, David Mills, Derek Law, Dominic Haigh, Emma Lay, Eric von Borstel, Faith H. 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