NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 36: "FEMALE OR SHEMALE ... 2"
This Week:
- Female or Shemale ... 2
- Stick your bosses face on porno pic
- Gaz Top interview
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B3ta email 36 - 26 APRIL 2002 - "We're saving the
web ... together"
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: FEMALE OR SHEMALE ... 2!
It's back, and this time with balls.
A month ago we launched a silly little quiz
called Female or Shemale. We knocked it up in
an hour or two and it made us laugh.
We didn't expect it to get 100 million hits.
And we didn't expect it to get us thrown off
two (count them) web servers.
Anyway, we're curious if doing exactly the
same idea will work again.
And so that's what we've done.
http://www.b3ta.com/femaleorshemale2/
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: STICK YOUR BOSSES FACE ON A PORNO PIC
With this handy automated tool.
It's the oldest trick in the book. You're
sitting bored in the office so you download
a pic of your boss from the corporate
intranet, stick it on a picture of a nice
young lady sucking on a penis and show it
to your work mates. They all think it's
hilarious.
And now? Catch up! It's the 21st century!
B3ta member, Ian Beveridge, has made the
process dead easy, by removing all the
difficult bits, and automating the process
into three clicks.
Woo for causing chaos in your office. And
if you get sacked? Tell us, it'll make a good
story for the next newsletter.
http://www.dynofoo.com/stealyourface/new_face.php
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: GAZ TOP INTERVIEW
He never shagged Janet Street Porter
Gaz Top is a UK children's TV presenter, and
for some inexplicable reason the people on
the B3ta board love him.
We had no choice put to get in touch and
interview him.
We did learn one curious fact from him though,
Pillock is Old English for penis, derived
from the archaic word, "pillcock". Oh and
he never had sex with Janet Street Porter,
but then we only threw that question in
because we are cretins.
Read the full interview.
http://www.b3ta.com/people/gaztop/
(BTW: Are you a celeb? Do know any celebs?
If you can get us access without us having
to deal with agents & PAs then we'll love you
for ever. Send details to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/)
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: THE RATHERGOOD CORNER
With bunnies, ducks & kittens.
Joel Veitch runs a site called rathergood.
He's our mate and we love his deranged work.
He's done so much stupid stuff this week that
we've given him his own special section.
Joel writes -
"Do you remember that I asked B3ta people to
buy my merchandise, so that I could raise
enough money to blow up a Big-Arsed Bunny?
Well I've finally got round to putting the
video online. It's great - and I've shoved
my favourite rave tune on it.
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.veitch/video/bunnygob...
"Oh, there was the Little Rocket Duckling too.
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.veitch/video/duckgoba...
"After that, I thought I'd better balance the
Evil with Good, so I made this Kitten Band
playing happy music on a beach. What could
be more lovely?"
http://www.rathergood.com/kittens/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Get Stu a Job, Swearing, & Weasels.
Tom Wood writes -
"I put together this web site because my mate
Stuart won't get a job and just sits in his
room watching TV and playing Playstation."
http://www.geocities.com/stugetajob/
Nikart writes -
"I'm trying to find artistic depictions of
swear words for my website. I've done some
but I need more. It's just something I'm doing
to stop myself from killing small animals."
http://www.nikart.com/dirty/dirty.html
B3ta boarder Sam has put together this
sweet little animated cartoon about
a the adventures of a weasel. It's a large
1.4MB download, but it's very nice.
http://www.somerset-ccc.co.uk
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
Blimey! You can buy a fighter jet online! It's
got an add to cart button and everything. We
want one.
http://makeashorterlink.com/
Play Defender. Pixel perfect. Classic.
http://makeashorterlink.com/
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: HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY
Import foreign confectionary from Japan.
Lara Nicholson writes -
"It's great. I've had Ant Chocolate - milk
chocolate containing edible ants that comes in
a petri dish - crunchy.
"And Japanese Kinder Eggs - the packaging was
cool and kitsch and the toy was a real quality
toy. Not like the usual Kinder stuff."
http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aasmt/
(BTW: If you've bought something fun on the
Internet, let us know at http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/)
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: MP3 BOOTLEG OF THE WEEK
Radiohead Vs Olive?
Each week we ask the_dr from the Boom Selection
site to tell us about his favourite bootleg MP3s
which are doing the rounds on the Internet.
the_dr writes -
"This is my favourite track at the moment.
It's Radiohead's Idioteque vs Olive's You're
not alone - it's shouldn't work but it does.
http://boom.phink.net/approved/sonof_-_your_not_id...
"If you want more background on the cut up
music scene then check out this Radio 1
documentary. It's got clips of nearly every
bootleg of note, and interviews with the
people behind them. It's a 14MB download though
- ouch!"
http://boom.phink.net/approved/lamacq_live_-_get_u...
PLUG: If you like this stuff, then you can
download more at the_dr's site.
http://boomselection.n3.net/
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results - When X Attack - The Worst Job Ever
Each week we run a competition to test your
creative skills. We set a challenge and you
open Photoshop and mess with our tiny minds.
Last week we asked for ideas for a crappy
TV series called "When X Attack", and you
came up trumps.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/whenxattack/
The winner? Maccaman's "David Attenbrough
and the Karate Bear" for its lovely walking
action and total stupidity.
http://users.anytimenow.com/maccaman/wtf.gif
And this week? We hate working. It interferes
with our surf time, and so we're interested
in your worst job ever.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/worstjob/
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: MEDIA WATCH
We've been rumbled.
"I wanted to write a Sunday Times column about
B3ta, but every time I tried to do it, you'd
run a picture of a cock or something on your
front page, and they wouldn't let me."
Danny O'Brien, UK Journalist.
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: IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE
You.
Yep. You. Make something cool. Email us about
it, and we'll pass it by our highly trained
editorial monkey, and if he likes it, then
it's in.
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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