NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 19: CATS ARE EVIL
This Week:
- Kill the Space Kittens
- Psycho Techno Hypno Kitten Snake
- Kitten Image Challenge
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B3ta 19 - 23rd November 2001
"We're saving the web, but not the cats"
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: CATS ARE EVIL
What is it with the Internet & cats? Why do
people keep sending B3ta sites about cats?
It appears that animals go in & out of fashion.
Back in '95 it was cows - more recently it was
monkeys - and then came the kittens.
Enough! No more cats.
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According to superstitious old people, kittens
born in the month of May will bring snakes into
the house.
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: KILL THE SPACE KITTENS
In this extremely shit "fast-action shooty game"
"I am sick of cats", says game creator Afroman,
"and pleased that B3ta is standing up for the
campaign against cats on the Internet."
"For I know that cats are evil. And the voices
tell me to kill them."
Here's the result of Afroman's voices: a game
which involves poking space kittens with a
knife, making them explode.
http://www.afroman.f2s.com/spacekitten/
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Gerard Daigle, 80, from Canada lost a pint of
blood after his cat Touti launched an attack.
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: PSYCHO TECHNO HYPNO KITTEN SNAKE
Play the Nokia snake game with a kitten.
"I'm really bored of cats", says creator
Joel Veitch, "and thought that if I created a
game featuring a really really pretty one -
I could put people off."
Play it - it's aversion therapy:
http://www.rathergood.com/snake/
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A New Zealand man drowned after falling into
his pet cat's water bowl.
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: THE TOUCHING STORY OF SPEEDY THE KITTEN
Speedy is a black and white kitten who was
born without a pelvis.
To enable him to walk - vet Dr. Edwin Jeszenka
constructed him a cart made from the childrens
toy.
Look at him and laugh cruelly:
http://www.geocities.com/speedykitten/
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The Scilly Isles has no cats.
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results - winner - new challenge.
Each week we run a competition to test your
creative skills. We find an image, and you
make our brain explode by mucking it up.
Last week was Dr. Harold Shipman
http://b3ta.com/challenge/haroldshipman/
The winner? Matt Leach's "Roger Moore"
http://www.ingenium.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3tashit/...
This weeks challenge? : A kitten. Obviously.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/kitten/
(BTW: Our site was down for most of this
week. We've now changed server - and we're
back. Yay.)
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There is a cat in Canada with 26 toes. It's evil.
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: LINK OF THE WEEK
Secret Santa.
Want to swap Christmas presents a random person
who you've never met? Then you need Secret
Santa.
"The idea of Secret Santa is very simple - you
pull a name out of a hat and buy that person a
present," says co-creator Tom. "Your name is in
the hat as well, so in return you get a present
from someone else. Easy!"
"The site uses Amazon wishlists to make everything
run smoothly and is designed to be a nice way for
people running personal sites on the net to
spread the love."
Go on - at least it doesn't contain cats:
http://www.thinkblank.com/santa/
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Seeing a black cat brings bad luck. Spitting
on it reverses this.
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: NEXT WEEK
The cats strike back ...
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