we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 77: "DOMO-KUN VS. DONNIE DARKO" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * FILM - Domo Darko * ANIM - Gay Bears * GAME - Shout at your PC ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > B3ta Fridge Poetry << A site doing the rounds this week allowed you to create fridge poetry based upon the text of any website. Flibz has made a cool variation. His tool allows you to do the same with the b3ta board. The innovation? You can drag around the pictures too. Fun. http://www.flibz.com/po3try >> Stop the War With Shouting << JBoom writes - "In this game you play the role of a UN Weapons Inspector and you have to talk with the Iraqi. You will either have to talk nicely, or shout at him." We certainly enjoyed screaming at the computer with all our might. http://www.jboom.com/iraq/stopthewar.html >> Singing Brummie << Huw writes "A mate of mine is at Uni in Bournemouth and knows these lads who live in a student house together. They were trawling through their flatmate's PC and came across some MP3s with him singing on top. And so they made a website without his knowledge." We recommend listening to his version of My Girl. It's a smasher. http://www.abitstrong.demon.co.uk/download.htm >> The Truth About Traffic Lights << Koit has made a sweet little collection of animated gifs that give us the inside skinny on what the little men in the traffic lights get up to when no one is looking. http://www.trafficlightwars.co.uk/ >> Document the day with a camera << Mr & Mrs Wheatley have started an interesting project. They're asking you to photograph your day with a camera and post it on their site. They want a complete record of human existence. Nice plan. http://www.weareacamera.com/ ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Everything Is Gay Video << This is quite extraordinary. Imagine a Jack Osbourne look-a-like sitting in his scuzzy bedroom hitting one chord on a guitar while listing everything in the world that is gay. We salute this man. He says all we want to say about life with an eloquence we don't possess. http://www.andymilonakis.com/gaynew.wmv >> Hubcap Fish << Men! Don't throw away your old hub caps - make them into lovely robot fish sculptures instead. Artist Ptolemy flogs his creations on his site. If we had any cash then we'd certainly buy one. http://www.hubcapcreatures.com/forsale1.html >> Official Korean Website Is Nuts << You know those arty sites that you get? The ones where you keep clicking and none of it makes sense but it's all kinda pretty and looks important? This state-sponsored Korean website is just like that. But better. 'Coz it's real. http://www.korea-dpr.com/ >> Invisible film quiz << A taxing little photoshop quiz here. They've removed the heads from actors and you have to guess the name of the film. We're shit and couldn't guess one. http://www.filmwise.com/invisibles/invisible_114.s... ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from Dog Nose 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. Think week b3ta regular Crazy Mum judged the result and gives us his three faves: #1 "Alien Dog - very nicely done. (Obz) http://www.b3ta.com/board/802200 #2 "Anteater Doggy - for making me feel I was on a ketamine flashback! Where does the dog start and the nose end? Please, make it stop!! (CALL &BB18) http://www.b3ta.com/board/817547 #3 "Staring Dog - Just because it made me laugh every time I saw it. (+slick_stick+) http://www.b3ta.com/board/802829 >> This Week's Challenge << This week, B3ta contributor DumbMonkey gave us the suggestion, "Crap Superheroes" http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/crapsuperheroes/ ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Follow-ups on previous stories. * TOMSK GETS ON MTV - they've picked up his Mint animations and will be showing them shortly. It's all about the gravy baby. http://www.tomandphil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mint/ * CHRIS MORRIS INTERVIEW - last week we asked if he was out there and if we could get an interview. Looks like he's not. Although LP bumped into him on the London anti-war march and said hello. * ICON CHALLENGE WINNERS - we asked you to design a new icon for our message board. The winners? Tomsk, A Handinthebush, Slim, Breel, Bovine, Pickledpizza, Expensiveface, Arrrgh...wasps, Captainsmithers, Cow23 and Monkeon. Look out for the icons appearing on the board in the future. http://b3ta.com/challenge/icon/ ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. If you are in it then people will see your stuff. Things we'd really like to see include * Sticker projects. We think the guy who's been putting the "loop the loop" stuff on the London tube maps is the coolest guy on the planet. * Newspaper subversion. Can you get a national paper to print a story that's clearly bollocks? * Freebees, damn it. We've checked our subs and enough of your seem to work for ad agencies, PR companies and in TV production. Send us something to watch. Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/ BTW: If you've sent something in that hasn't been featured then don't be put off - we look at everything you send us. ------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------- THANKS: This issue was edited by Rob Manuel with David Stevenson. Links sent in by Grey Triggerfish, Ptolemy, Ossko Andras & James Maguire. Proofing by the skanky b4ta hoes. (60777) 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