NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 12: WASTE TIME AT WORK
This Week:
- Rocket car
- Blode III
- MaciGame
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B3ta Issue 12 - 05 OCT 2001 - WASTE TIME AT WORK
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One of the great joys of the web is that it
offers endless ways of bunking off from work
whilst in the office.
Considering that most of us will be sacked soon,
why not have a holiday on company time?
And so - here are B3tas' 10 ways to waste time
in the office.
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: READ THE BEST EMAIL EVER WRITTEN
.. Legend of the Rocket Car.
In 1978 a 22 year old man attached an aircraft
jet rocket to his car. This is his - very
long & extremely funny - account.
http://www.wagoneers.com/pages/RocketCar/rockit.ht...
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: WATCH AN ODD ANIMATION
.. Blode III - Marmot Mayhem.
Joel Veitch - creator of The Frightened Boy
& the Swearotron has released a new animated
flash movie.
It features a small fury animal going into
space and defeating Space Marmots - and a song
about cleaning a Musk Ox.
Joel claims, "This is the dawn of a new era
in entertainment and the best thing ever
made, of any sort, ever in the history of
everything."
http://www.rathergood.com/blode3/
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: BEST THREE WEB GAMES
.. that we've wasted most time on.
Lego JunkBot
http://www.lego.com/build/junkbot/junkbot.asp
3D Pong
http://www.liquid.se/pong.html
Spaced Pengiun
http://bigidea.com/penguins/kids/k_spacedpenguin.h...
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: MESS UP A NEWS PHOTO
.. post it to Fark.com
Fark is a community site which hosts links
to interesting stories and allows you to
comment on them.
Farks' weird genius is a section called
"Photoshop this picture", where the editor
finds an unusual image and challenges the
you to edit it.
Don't have to worry if your artistic
skills are lacking - it's all about making
a quick gag.
View a recent example - with a clown:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl
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: TYPE YOUR NAME INTO A SEARCH ENGINE
.. it's called Ego Surfing.
B3ta member Rob says, "I have the same name
as the chief of police in Haiti. I was
strangely thrilled to learn about my
doppelgangers' series of human rights
abuses."
Suggestion: find that special person,
email them, and really weird them out.
http://www.google.com/
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: MAKE A PAPER AIRPLANE
.. and throw it at a co-worker.
This site features many novel designs - a step up
from the ones we made at school.
http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml
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: KILL YOUR BOSS (online)
.. and get sacked.
Find a JPEG image of your boss - there will
probably be one on the company intranet -
and upload it to B3ta's customisable Space
Invaders.
This will generate a unique web address which
you can forward to all the employees in the
company.
If you get sacked - email us so that we can
laugh at your expense.
http://b3ta.com/kill/
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: PLAY MACIGAME
.. the most addictive game in the world.
Like Tetris - on first glance MaciGame
looks unappealing - and like Tetris, it's
genius is it's simplicity.
B3ta member Neil says, "I had to take it
off my computer. I didn't do a stitch
of work for 2 months."
(BTW: It's not a web page, it needs
installing - and there are version for
the PC & Mac.)
http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/freebies.html
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: MAKE WEIRD ART
.. out of dead crabs.
Crab Pallete is a silly little web page
which allows your to make pictures by
squashing crabs.
http://www.rathergood.com/crabpalette.html
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: HOW GOOD ARE THEY IN BED?
.. that sexy person, in the office.
Howgoodinbed.com asks you to fill in a quick
quiz, and attempts to rate your friends' bedroom
technique based on a series of clever sums.
Site designer Rob Malone got in contact and said,
"I honestly believe there must be some real
predictive factors and this site is meant to
figure out what they are."
http://www.howgoodinbed.com/
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: SEND US STUFF!
.. pictures, games, whatever ..
We are always interested in hearing from people who
are attempting to make cool things on the web. Say
hello at http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
