we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "FUNNY SHIT YOUR DAD FAXED TO THE OTHER OFFICE IN HALESOWEN IN 1985" next issue » « previous issue * WIKIMEDIA RADIO - Listen to the bizarre uploads * SPIDER-WALK ACROSS THE UK - touching Gregg's shops * HAPPY 50th JAWS - the copyright free shark ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're saving the web by ___/ _ |/_ > This week: Cartoon Spin-offs << The BBC are making a Dr Who cartoon for CBeebies, following in the footsteps of such classics as that one about the Fonz and his dog. Show us what other TV shows could do with becoming a cartoon, or which could do with a cameo from a cartoon character, if that's easier. Suggested by hagbardsapple. http://b3ta.com/challenge/cartoonspinoffs/popular/... ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Follow ups on previous stories * PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS - You might remember Matt Round broke the internet when he released his nudes, sorry, when we released his pig stacking game. Incredibly, a fan has 3D printed the entire thing and turned it into a real world stacking game. If you're an eccentric board games production company we suggest you get on this quick, before someone like Waddingtons takes it up and makes billions. https://bsky.app/profile/vole.wtf/post/3lruvbguzws... ------------------------------------------------- : ASK B3TA We're rebooting Ask Jeeves, very poorly, sorry leo@vegoda writes, "In 2008 I took a train to Brussels. At Mechelen, some men got on and asked "Are we at Mechelen?" When they left, they had taken the handbag of the lady across the aisle. I have felt incredibly guilty ever since for not protecting an adult from distraction thieves. Will you absolve me of my guilt?" This is not really what we're after, we're already flooded with confession stuff on Fesshole, we want proper questions, so no we will not forgive you, may your sin follow you to your grave. If you've got a question for B3ta, tell us now, or we'll give up this section as a bad idea. http://b3ta.com/mailus ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Some ideas to kick you in the idea scrotum * BYE BYE BIRDIE - Monkeon suggests "I'd like to see an account that posts pictures of the Twitter bird icon spotted irl on that day. Keep it going until every van and store-front has been repainted. Watch it slowly fade away from public, and the challenge to photograph it gets harder and harder." * TEST AI - compare ChatGTP with Microsoft Encarta for accuracy on say 100 randomly picked subjects. And fix it so Encarta wins. Hashtag Encarta 4eva. * SPELLING BEEFEATERS - we need a British version of Spelling Bee. The NYT is taking our money, you need to localise your content for your loyal British fans who know how to spell properly. Make your ideas and tell us, it's that simple: https://b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- : PATREON THANKS We love all these people. 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