NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 53: "WIN A DATE WITH A NET CELEBRITY!"
This Week:
- Dutch painting quiz (better than it sounds)
- Design a tattoo
- Create a city in pixels
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B3ta email 53 - 23 Aug 2002
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: THE DUTCH RENAISSANCE PAINTING SUPERQUIZ
Fun spoof game show.
Do you know much about art? Don't worry -
you don't need knowledge to play this quiz
from Superzorgon.
It's very easy and the game show presentation
makes it enormous fun.
Be warned: there is no prize for winning.
http://www.ultraville.com/flash/new%20swfs/superqu...
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: DATE A NET CELEBRITY
Draw a picture and win GAY SEX!
Log is famous. He created the 'Law of the
Playground' site. Everyone's read it. Here is
your chance to date him - you lucky people.
He's looking for:
* Un-camp chaps with a fondness for drink.
* Someone who can laugh at himself without
adding 'God, I'm such a worthless shitpiece'
and weeping.
* A towering hulk of ill-bred masculinity
Is this you? Then send a drawing of what "your
love looks like" to:
http://www.log.dial.pipex.com/mememe/lovemedo.htm
PLEASE NOTE: This competition is only open to
gay men.
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: CITY CREATOR
Create cities from pixels & email them to mates
Pep and Cal from B3ta have been busy. They've
spent the last couple of months working on this
project.
It looks amazing - like a sci-fi SimCity -
and it's very easy to use.
They are planning on extending the construction
set and would like you to suggest ideas for cities,
buildings or objects.
http://www.citycreator.com/
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: THE RATHERGOOD CORNER
"Big Pant Trekking"
Joel Veitch runs a site called Rathergood.
He's our mate and we love his deranged work.
Joel writes -
"This week I've been thinking about advertising
pants. Big pants. It's all a bit icky."
http://www.rathergood.com/pants/
BTW: We've learnt that the Rathergood site
is now banned in some schools. Yay!
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #1
Funny book, Biscuit Quiz, Feed political fish.
>> Biscuit Quiz <<
Regular readers will know that Nicey loves
biscuits. And now? He's photographed the
broken ones at the bottom of his tin and
asks you to identify them. Are you up to
the challenge? It's tricky.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/quiz/
>> Print a funny book <<
Log - the chappy who's looking for a date -
has made a short comic book for you to print
out. We read it on the loo - it made us
smile.
http://www.mediapill.com/bookofmany/
>> Feed the fish <<
Nathan Gallagher has made a nice little
fish feeding thing. Except the fish aren't
fish - they are George Bush, Tony Blair and
some cats.
http://www.bulletclip.com/n8/swf/feedEmUp.html
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: DESIGN A TATTOO
And get it inked onto a real live person.
Marc Needham already has two tattoos, and is
looking to get a third.
He's asking you to design his tattoo - and the
winner will be inked onto his inner forearm.
If you are stuck for a theme, then he mentions
that he likes England, cats, cycling and
computers.
http://marcneedham.com/files/tattoo/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2
Shooty Circus Game, You've been b3ta'd, Poirot
>> Duck Shoot Circus Game <<
Smirnoff has made a little flash game to
promote the Suddenstrike 2 PC game. It's
commercial work but we forgive him because
he's stuck some grenades in it.
http://www.eurogamer.net/suddenstrike2/game.htm
>> When B3ta stuff goes wrong <<
You know those clip programmes that show video
of presenters mucking up their lines? We were
working on the audio for a new bit of B3ta
content and it went wrong. However we found
our wrong version more amusing than the proper
one - so here it is. (Needs sound)
http://b3ta.com/razor-vs-house/
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> Pre-date help <<
Girls! Do you need a confidence boost before
going on a date? This site has lovely little
clips answering questions like "Do I need more
make up?" We love it.
http://www.zefrank.com/predate/index.html
>> Arnold Schwarzenegger Prank Calls <<
We adore prank calls - but have always been too
scared to make them. This site offers a sound
board with phrases taken from Arnie's films.
Also here are recordings of people playing them
down the phone to unsuspecting victims. They rock.
http://www.btinternet.com/~pir8/arnie/
>> Celebrities with and without makeup <<
We know that fair bit of retouching goes on
in celebrity photography - but this collection
of photos are still an eye opener.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/celeb.html
>> Disney in WANKER domain-name hack <<
Wanker.com re-directs you to the Disney website.
We think someone is trying to say something.
http://www.wanker.com/
>> Turn your dead-loved-one into a Diamond<<
Lifegems has caught people's imagination this
week. We've been sent it ten times. So what's
the deal? It's a front for the 'Creation
Association of North America' - and they're
offering the service of taking the carbon from
the ashes of a cremated body and turning it
into a man-made diamond. Vom!
http://www.lifegems.com/
>> Shazam. It works. <<
We've been hearing a lot about Shazam recently
- the UK mobile phone service that recognises
pop songs by playing them into your phone. We've
tried it with a dodgy old Goth CD. We are both
surprised and impressed.
http://www.shazam.com/
>> Japanese Mini Car <<
Japanese technologists have a passion for
miniaturisation. Check out these cars. They
are very cute.
http://www.cqmotors.co.jp/qcar/catalog_f.html
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from "Shit Holiday" 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 adverts for a bad holiday.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/holidaysfromhell/
We asked B3ta boarder Slim to judge the
entries - here are his 3 faves.
Slim writes -
#1 "The World of Mud" (by koit) - 10/10
for a silly idea, accompanied by some
mudtastic imagery.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/6/9/9/7/2/
#2 "Come to Yorkshire on holiday" (by hanrahan)
- As a Northerner, I think this one is great.
Everyone looks pissed off, even the sheep.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/6/9/4/5/5/
#3 "The Underground has some lovely beaches"
(by Mr. Fancyteeth/Mantlepies) - Anyone who
gets the Tube in the morning knows it is
hell. Two very polished images here."
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/7/5/3/4/1/
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/7/5/3/5/3/
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Chthonic gave us
the suggestion, "Household Implements of Doom."
http://b3ta.com/challenge/doom/
BTW: Chthonic will be handling the Photoshop
competitions on the B3ta site for the next
month. Rob (me) has to go and earn some money.
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* FATSKIER BABY ANNOUNCEMENT - recently we
asked you to submit names for a B3ta reader's
baby. Stu writes, "At 01.25 GMT on 21st
August, my wife Steffi gave birth to a 3.75kg
(8lb 12oz) baby girl called Elise. Both are
happy and well." And yes - they selected the
name from YOUR suggestions.
* ISTHISYOU - the site that attempts to
reunite people with their lost photocards
is proud to announce TWO successes.
Eri from Tokyo:
http://www.isthisyou.co.uk/japancentre.html
And Rahat from Norway:
http://www.isthisyou.co.uk/forerkort.html
BTW: They are currently on the hunt for
Rui Fiske de Gouveia. Is this you?
http://www.isthisyou.co.uk/posh.html
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
It's Bank Holiday weekend - get creative.
Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.
Stuff we'd really like to see includes
* NO MORE BILLS - Our ISP sent us a $16,000
bandwidth bill. Thankfully it was a computer
error - but it scared the shit out of us.
* REAL WORLD IDEAS - We're really enjoying the
'design my tattoo' / 'find me a date' stuff.
Have a think along those lines and get in
touch.
* GAMES / ANIMATIONS etc. Jeez. It's B3ta
you know the score.
BTW: We don't always reply to every email -
but rest assured every link you send gets
looked at.
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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LINKS: Dano, Lisa, Liz Balchin, Michael Escher,
Tstar, Stuart S Thompson, Mark Kentwell, Jack,
Dave, 43494, and Joelle Cleveland.
And a special thanks to Cal who has spent the
last week re-coding the site to make it go
faster. Hopefully that should be launched soon.
Huzzah.
