WEBLOG ARCHIVE
10/11/23
B3ta newsletter 883, out now
"THE NEWSLETTER THAT SUNAK IS TO WEAK TO SACK"
This Week:
* CHALLENGE - Fuck up some signs OK?
* NEW FESSHOLE BOOK - launched like a egg
* THE EXCITING RETURN - of 'what happened next'
found by rob
03/11/23
B3ta newsletter 882, out now
"IF YOU DON'T LIKE NEWSLETTERS THEN YOU MADE A BAD CHOICE SIGNING UP TO THIS"
This Week:
* GAME - Yes, it's time to play 'Cortextual'
* DOCTOR WHO - Randomiser will pick you an episode
* CHALLENGE - (late) Halloween pop stars
found by rob
28/10/23
B3ta newsletter 881, out now
"THE NEWSLETTER THAT REFUSES TO PRESENT GB NEWS EVERY WEEK"
This Week:
* REVERSE 'GUESS WHO' - Monkeon delivers fun
* HONK - Weebl makes epic animation
* HEY PESTO - Student dinners solved
found by rob
20/10/23
B3ta newsletter 880, out now
"THE ONLY NEWSLETTER THAT COMES WITH ITS OWN SMELL"
This Week:
* B3TA DIASPORA - Let's check on the flock
* ARE YOU READY - for Crisp Sandwich Day?
* RESULTS - Microsoft Windows: A Celebration
found by rob
22/09/23
B3ta newsletter 879, out now
"THIS WEBSITE HAS PIVOTED TO 2/3RDS BIN CONTENT"
This Week:
* BINS - the Seven Bins Sunak game
* CRISP SANDWICH DAY - the revenge of carbs
* NEW CHALLENGE - it's one word, can you guess?
found by rob
15/09/23
B3ta newsletter 878, out now
"THE NEWSLETTER THAT ALWAYS COMES WITH A SUPERMARKET YELLOW STICKER"
This Week:
* BRITISH SEASIDE SIMULATOR - experience rain
* BAKED BEANS - the full nauseating results
* NEW IMAGE CHALLENGE - the horror of politics
found by rob
11/09/23
B3ta newsletter 877, out now
"STICK THIS IN YOUR EMAIL PIPE AND SMOKE IT BABY"
This Week:
* AUTOGRAPH QUIZ - worth the paper they are written on?
* WEEBL - Celebrate 20 years of Badger Badger
* FESSHOLE BOOK TWO - pre-order now
found by rob
02/09/23
Congratulations to Jonti Picking for 20 years of Badger Badger Badger - he tells us, "Posting on b3ta first as this is where it all started. Hope you enjoy it."
found by rob
01/09/23
B3ta newsletter 876, out now
"PLAY^D^D^D^D IMAGINE THE QUIZ 'VAN MORRISON OR MORRISONS VAN' COZ WE AIN'T MAKING IT"
This Week:
* OMG - IS IT REALLY 20 YEARS OF BADGER BADGER?
* READ - The 'Deathstar Express'
* PLAY - Some sort of Countdown thingie
found by rob
25/08/23
B3ta newsletter 875, out now
"OPEN THIS NEWSLETTER OR ELSE WE'LL KEEP WRITING THEM"
This Week:
* SHED OF THE YEAR - Winner announced
* BEST OF FESSHOLE - each week, every week
* REAL NAME SPOONERISM - mend us sore
found by rob
18/08/23
B3ta newsletter 874, out now
"THIS NEWSLETTER FAILED ITS A-LEVELS AND IS GOING TO SCUNTHORPE POLYTECHNIC TO STUDY BISCUIT TECHNOLOGY"
This Week:
* GAME - Can you 'Clone-a Lisa'?
* IMAGE CHALLENGE - Shrinkflation
* TOY - Generation mediaeval beasties
found by robFESSHOLE LIVE TICKETS - if you want to see your newsletter editor making an idiot of himself and talking through Fesshole (and a bit of B3ta and Anon_Opin) plus the amusing chaos of audience confessions then here's the dates and tickets.
Walthamstow, Big Penny, 7 Sept 2023
Cambridge, Arts P, 11 Oct 2023
Nottingham, Saltbox, 15 Nov 2023
Leicester, Y Theatre, 10 Feb 2024
All tickets:
https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Do come and say hi.
found by rob
11/08/23
B3ta newsletter 873, out now
"THIS NEWSLETTER HAS BEEN RENAMED 'TOILET ROLL EMOJI' - ADJUST YOUR TATTOOS NOW"
This Week:
* SUBMIT - Your ideas for stupid polls
* DRAW - in the 'reverse' colouring book
* ANNOUNCEMENT - Fesshole live coming to Notts
found by rob
04/08/23
B3ta newsletter 872, out now
"WE'VE SYPHONED THE BEST OF THE INTERNET AND TURNED IT INTO A THIN SLURRY YOU CAN DRINK"
This Week:
* NEW CHALLENGE - Sci-fi crossovers
* DRINK DRIVING - like it's 1967
* SUBMIT - your novelty songs
found by rob
28/07/23
B3ta newsletter 871, out now
This Week:
* QUIZ - Can you beat 'New Word Order'?
* ART - Submit your banana and have it judged
* TINY AWARDS - the complete horrifying results
found by rob
25/07/23
FESSHOLE BOOK OFFER - Fesshole book on Kindle is 99p - absolutely sod all - get it now before the end of July when the price goes back up.
BUY IT NOWfound by rob
21/07/23
B3ta newsletter 870, out now
"THE NEWSLETTER THAT LOSES ITS DEPOSIT IN EVERY BY-ELECTION"
This Week:
* CHALLENGE - Post-Barbie, make toys into film?
* WORD GAME - Are you ready for 'Bonggle?'
* WHAT?! - Veitch is back with the Quiznos stuff
found by rob
14/07/23
B3ta newsletter 869, out now
"OPENING THIS NEWSLETTER WILL MAKE YOUR BALLS OR OVARIES QUIVER WITH CARNAL LUST"
This Week:
* TIM VINE - Recreated using HTML & Javascript
* EGGPOD - Please vote for it to win Eurovision
* TORY FACTS - You do want Tory Facts don't you?
found by rob
07/07/23
B3ta newsletter 868, out now
"THE ONLY EMAIL GEORGE OSBORNE IS HAPPY TO READ"
This Week:
* NEW IMAGE CHALLENGE: Mundane computer games
* VOTE NOW - For your favourite 'small' website
* FESSHOLE KINDLE BOOK - only 99 pence in July
found by rob
30/06/23
B3ta newsletter 867, out now
"Newsletter, 22, flashes underboob and reveals HTML links"
This Week:
* BORING AWARD - Could YOU win it?
* NEW IMAGE CHALLENGE - it's 'Business Movies'
* PASSWORD GAME - Omg, so g00d1!
found by rob
23/06/23
B3ta newsletter 866, out now
"IMAGINE IT'S STILL 2001 BY SQUEEZING INTO SMALLER JEANS AND READING THIS ASCII NEWSLETTER"
This Week:
* ADD PIGEONS - to the Rolling Stones
* BUY TAT - from the darkest web
* CROWDFUND - Chris Barker's new comic
found by rob
16/06/23
B3ta newsletter 865, out now
"THE NEWSLETTER THAT HAS SEEN OUT SIX BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS"
This Week:
* QUIZ - Date that London footage
* SURVEY RESULTS - What's the most boring stuff?
* NEW CHALLENGE - Business movies
found by robTWITTER UPGRADE - in a small addition to our Twitter account, we needed to fix the auto-posting of front pages images (thanks Elon for breaking that) and now it's better than ever, as it mentions what challenge the art is from for a bit of context and promo. Neat.
Check the updated B3ta Twitterfound by rob
09/06/23
B3ta newsletter 864, out now
"OPEN THIS NEWSLETTER LIKE A MELTED CHEESE TOASTIE"
This Week:
* OUR BEST CHALLENGE IN AGES? Expanded art
* INTRODUCING THE 'TINY AWARDS' - Submit yourself?
* LET'S DO A BEST OF FESSHOLE - oh yes
found by rob
06/06/23
Fesshole tickets - Your B3ta newsletter editor (me) is also doing Fesshole shows at the moment. The next is in Belfast, and we also have tickets for Bristol (sold out), Newcastle, London and Leicester. Think of it as Rob on Tour like he's Kim Wilde or something.
BUY SEVERAL, THANKSfound by rob
02/06/23
B3ta newsletter 863, out now
"TURN OFF PLAYING SCRABBLE ON YOUR PHONE AND READ THIS NEWSLETTER OK?"
This Week:
* NEW CHALLENGE - Expand art better than AI
* OLD IMAGES - Restored, amazing, really
* ALAN TURING - Leave flowers for him
found by robOld images restored - A few years back one of the third party images servers that supported B3ta went off line and we lost a lot of material. The good news is that we've found a chunk of it in the internet archive. Wil Haddon writes, "Looks like 11000 images have been copied over from b3tards though there were quite a lot of duplicates coming in for a while before I fixed that up. Still loads more missing but it's better than it was." So go and check out some
old challenges like this Twitter one - loads of images are there. Not all. But lots.
found by robOhh we've got a new sponsored newsletter link, who asks us to say: "Our friend Keith and long-time subscriber has made a new book that doesn’t even mention AI. He has two books , check them out: the last
book to help organise your days and a new
book to help organise your life."
found by rob
26/05/23
B3ta newsletter 862, out now
"IF YOU SWAP 'REFLEX' FOR 'PENIS' IN THE DURAN SONG IT MAKES IT MUCH BETTER"
This Week:
* GAME - Play 'DayBrix' every damn day
* MORE GAMES - Get AI to tell you the password?
* BEST OF FESSHOLE - horrible fesses never stop
found by rob
20/05/23
B3ta newsletter 861, out now
"DON'T READ THIS, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE, AND DO SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING INSTEAD"
This Week:
* CHALLENGE - Beatles at War results
* FESSHOLE LIVE - Newcastle & London shows announced
* MERRY KINGMAS - To our new farty king
found by rob