NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 42: "FOOTBALL VS. ART"
This Week:
- Football Game
- Football Fan or Racist Quiz
- B3ta Steals The Turner Prize
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B3ta email 42 - 07 JUN 2002 - "We're saving the
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: PLAY WORLD CUP GAME
Don't worry - it's not much like football.
The design agency playerthree have got in
touch to tell us about their new game.
Pete from playerthree writes
"Pick a match and dive in... hammer 'n' and 'm'
alternately to increase your speed, smack the
space bar to kick the ball."
Considering that B3ta is morally opposed to
football, we found this game rather fun.
http://www.yomow.com/
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: SUPPORTER OR DEPORTER
Who's the Racist? Can you tell?
B3ta regular Monkeon writes -
"I spent the time when the football was on
making this quiz. It's a rip off of the B3ta
quizzes asking whether you can tell the
difference between England supporters and
people at a BNP rally."
Blimey. Strong stuff.
http://www.monkeon.co.uk/supporter/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #1
Look-alikes, Pies & Jade the Big Brother Thicko
>> Celebrity or Look-alike Quiz <<
After last week's morally dubious Jailbait or
Legal quiz we thought we'd return to much
safer ground. Can you tell the difference
between celebrities and their look-alikes?
http://b3ta.com/celebrityorlookalike/
>> Pie Animation <<
Weebl -who brought you The Cheese Family- has
been making animations about Pies. They're
great.
http://www.weebl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3ta/pie.htm...
>> Big Brother contestant is a div <<
B3ta reader David Nattriss has been watching
the UK reality show Big Brother 3. He enjoyed
the bit where contestant Jade revealed her
ignorance of UK geography. She says, "I'm
confused. I thought Cambridge was in London.
I knew Birmingham weren't in London,
but I thought Cambridge was in London."
David has recorded the whole conversation
for your enjoyment.
http://natts.com/jade-geography.mp3
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: HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY
Buy a Mitten for your Kitten.
A kitten mitten is a glove with long fingers
with balls at the tips.
They are designed so that you can playfully
torment your cat without getting scratched.
They only cost $6.99, and we'd really love
you to buy one, play with your cat and send
us some photos.
http://www.vegancats.com/cattoys.html
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2
Marmite survey, Cats and Paintbrush Drawings
>> Do you like Marmite?<<
B3ta reader Phin Pope is engaged in the eternal
debate of whether people like Marmite (black
salty stuff that UK people put on their toast.)
He's gone as far as setting up TWO websites
to canvass your opinion.
http://www.ilovemarmite.co.uk
http://www.ihatemarmite.co.uk
>> Dear God no! Another cat animation <<
B3ta reader Hooty Owl has given us this operatic
cat animation. It's worth sticking
through, as it has some unexpected bits.
http://www.ultraville.com/flash/cats.html
>> Paintbrush Drawings <<
Are you sick of all the Photoshop nonsense
that B3ta gets up to? Board member Bananaman has
been making all his work only using the crappy
drawing package that comes with Windows.
It gives his work a naive charm.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/magicalbananaman/mine.h...
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> Texttwist Anagram Game <<
We're utterly addicted to this anagram game and
managed to score about 36,000 on it.
http://games.yahoo.com/games/texttwist.html
>> How Americans see the World<<
This old but gold map of the world still
makes us laugh.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/magicalbananaman/bush_w...
>> ASCII Penis Kittens go Wild <<
This inexplicable Japanese animation did
our heads in. In a good way.
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~helpme/flash/chinko_anesan....
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: BOOTLEG MP3 OF THE WEEK
30 Eminem Bootlegs. Golly.
Each week we talk to the_dr at Boom Selection
about his current favourite bootleg track.
the_dr writes -
"Thought we'd do something different this week.
"We are getting lots and lots of 'Without Me'
bootlegs, so I decided to make a mini-site
just for them. You can vote on your favourites
and there's even instructions on how to make
your own."
http://www.base58.com/withoutme/
(BTW: We were worried last week that the
site had gone AWOL. No worries. It was just
undergoing a change of address.)
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from Jubilee 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.
Last week we wanted you to make ideas for
new challenges for Jubilee crockery.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/jubilee/
We've asked B3ta boarder Dr Phil Kitten
to judge the entries - here are her 3 faves.
Dr Phil writes -
#1 Brian May Mug Sugar Dispenser
"I don't like Queen, and I don't even take
sugar in my tea, but I still want one of these.
http://milhouse.members.pupiline.net/b3ta/kweenmug...
#2 The Gold Kween Jooberly Mug (Six50)
"I like lo-fi and this really made me giggle.
Particularly the Slade-esque spelling of Kween."
http://milhouse.members.pupiline.net/b3ta/kweenmug...
#3 Stripping Queen Mug (Salmon of Knowledge)
"I'd buy one of these, wouldn't you? But is that
really what Lizzie looks like under her clothes?"
http://naxtek.com/mug.gif
>> This Weeks Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor LumpBucket gave us
the suggestion, "B3ta should hijack the UK modern
art competition, The Turner Prize." And so we
are. We're nicking it.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/turnerprize/
(BTW: Can anyone find us Tracy Emin? We'd
really like her to judge our Turner Prize)
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE
Make something cool and tell us about it. This
newsletter now reaches over 27,000 people - if
you are in it, then people will see your stuff.
It's that simple.
Stuff we'd really like to see includes
* Are you a famous? Say hello. 80s popstar
Steve Strange sent us fan mail the other
day. Fancy!
* Reviews of weird/cheap stuff you've bought
on-line
* Games, animations and odd projects
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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REMEMBER! UK newsletter NTK is running their
Extreme Computing nerd fest on Sunday. We're
going to pop in, and so should you.
11am-7pm, Sunday June 9th 2002
The Camden Centre, London
http://www.xcom2002.com/
