Patrick Moore Plays the Xylophone - an animation by Weebl and Rob. BTW: This was down yesterday afternoon - we've switched servers so it should be ok now.
found by rob

La Villette is a very tranquil game where you play the part of 'Ruminant,' a small fleshy creature who lives in a bubble and wanders around a strange pink landscape. We're not sure what the objective is, but its lovely.
found by Fraser

Bowlingual is a revolutionary device that translates your dog's barks into phrases understood by humans. The site's in Japanese, but it looks fantastic.
found by Fraser

Issue 60: It's out! - Hooray! We were up til dawn at B3ta HQ preparing great stuff for you to enjoy. Take the afternoon off and check this stuff out. Your life will be better for it.
found by rob

Bookcrossing is nice little site that asks you to leave books in a public place. If you put a sticker on it and a code, you can track where the book goes and who had it last.
found by poshpaws

Bad taste gaming is alive and well: "You and some friends have been drinking all day and you just scored & cooked some dope. The guy who went first barely got the needle out before collapsing in a weird position. What ya gonna do?" Play the Overdose game.
found by Fraser

The best welding helmets in the World. I never thought manual labour could be this exciting.
found by Fraser

Fancy a fag? This is a useful tool for those who can't smoke at work: the cyber cigarette break.
found by Fraser

Meet Gypsy. Gypsy is a typically unpleasant looking Chihuahua whose owners dress her up in a baffling array of 'cute' costumes. Nasty.
found by Fraser

The good, the bad, and the furry. One day cat herding will be an Olympic sport.
found by Fraser

This Escher building in lego actually seems to look like the building he drew - how's that happened?
found by bumblebee

Text mode Quake is, as you might imagine, Quake, in ascii. After a quick look at this screenshot we think it might make your eyes bleed...
found by Indole_Ring

Woo hoo - it's b3ta newsletter time - Issue 59 is packed with stuff. It's test-tastic. And it will eat your mum.
found by rob

Catboxing for those that love cats, and a bit of a fight.
found by pep

Paper plane flight simulator. See how far you can throw a virtual paper dart - it's harder than you think.
found by Fraser

I Made It Last. Keep track of whose turn it is to to make coffee next in your office. Good idea, but requires lots of registration information, unfortunately.
found by Fraser

Handguns for ladies. Where glamour and violence meet head-on.
found by Fraser

The Peace Pumpkin Project. Like pumpkins? Don't like war? Make a stand this Halloween.
found by Fraser

Han Hoogerbrugge is back. The brilliant Dutch flash artist returns with an updated site. Go have a play.
found by Fraser

A history of Google. Excellent archive showing how the search engine developed from an idea to the site we know and love today.
found by Fraser

Windshield art. Birds can paint too, they just do it with poo.
found by Banana

Issue 58 is out! - take the afternoon off and look at all this stuff. Best bits? The Viking Kitten animation and the new B3ta screensaver. Woo and indeed yay.
found by rob

A nice optical illusion, that flummoxed the messageboard enough for people to open the image in photoshop just to check.
found by Dr Nick Riviera

Amazing example of very bad driving. Great photos that show what happens when you don't look where you're going.
found by Fraser

Buy a dog in a shell. They're shells. Containing dogs.
found by Fraser

What happens when you drop a 50lb ball of silly putty from the roof of a multi-story car-park? As usual, the Internet has the answer (.avi file, big download).
found by Fraser

Become a Bush Speechwriter. This excellent tool allows you to create and then hear exactly the sort of speeches that Dubya is making in real life.
found by Fraser

Fantastically dressed up Japanese kittens Now all we want is the video of them doing martial arts.
found by nilrod

Fetish Map. How is medical bondage related to body inflation? This fascinating map has all the answers.
found by Fraser

Lego dope smoking. Not that we'd condone the use of drugs for a moment, of course, but the attention to detail is these pictures is great.
found by Fraser