NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 28: "I WANT TO GET SUED BY STARBUCKS"
This Week:
- Fund Dangerous Ideas
- Destroy Capitalism
- Ferry Halim Speaks
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B3ta email 28 - 22 FEB 2002 - "We're saving the web"
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: DESTROY CAPITALISM
By uploading this song to a corporate server.
Toby Slater is a 22 year old alt-rock singer.
You may remember him, he once was the fresh
faced singer in the britpop band, Catch.
Toby has written a song & flash music video
called "Consumption" which rages against
modern consumerism. The songs lyrics are
basically a huge list of global corporations
including Gap, General Motors, Ebay & Yahoo.
"Here is the challenge", Toby says, "I want
you upload my song to as many corporate servers
as you can. I want you to subvert from within."
"This is distributed terrorism.", continues
Toby, "By working together we can do more
damage than one man alone."
"I need your help.", concludes Toby, "I want
to get sued by Starbucks."
http://www.starbuckscocacolagap.com
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: HELP FUND AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IDEA
By buying a t-shirt, hat or boxer shorts.
Joel at Rathergood is a genius. His animation
gems such as Frightened Boy and The Swearing
Trilogy are the best the Internet has to offer.
And now? Joel want to to raise money for a
"weapons testing program on stuffed animals"
by selling t-shirts with crabs on them.
"I need some big display fireworks", says
Joel, "so I can shove them up the arses of
my stuffed penguins. I want to remove the
innards, and fill it with petrol. This will go
off in a huge ball of flames. Woo."
Go on, help Joel out. If he gets enough cash
he'll video it and put it on the web.
Buy crab clothes:
http://www.cafepress.com/crabwear/
Or buy Blode & Frightened Boy stuff:
http://www.cafepress.com/rathergood/
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: FERRY HALIM SPEAKS
We interview the webs greatest game designer.
Ferry makes the coolest web games. They feature
all out favourite stuff: crabs, bees and monkeys,
and are a stunning combination of playability
and beautiful design.
Every day someone emails B3ta HQ site saying,
"have you seen his fantastic games?"
We got bored of saying "Yes, they're very nice
aren't they?" and got in touch ask him about
his work. And his dead iguana.
http://www.b3ta.com/people/ferryhalim/
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: SITES IN BRIEF
More good links that we're too lazy to write about.
Remember those great stickman kung-fu animations?
There are now eight of them. Each a small work
of perfection.
http://www.hackernetwork.com/flash/stickmen.shtml
Play a musical keyboard. With kittens.
http://www.thewebshite.co.uk/gizmos/kitten.html
Watch Spaski & Crutch in a silly flash movie.
http://www.rathergood.com/james/crutch/
B3ta designer Pep has launched her own site. It
features bunnies. Being eaten.
http://www.styledeficit.com/bunny/index.html
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
2 weeks of results, and a new Olympic Challenge.
Each week we run a competition to test your
creative skills. Last week we asked you to think
up stuff we could sell in a b3ta shop.
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/catalog/
The winner? Brads' "Twat Boy"
http://www.limpfish.com/b3ta/nokia_80110X.jpg
The week before we asked you "what sites
should be made that haven't?"
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/website/
We thought Maccas' "woo web hosting" would
be a brilliant idea.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/afterlife/b3ta/woohosti...
And this week? Can you tell us about a sport
that would make the Winter Olympics a bit
more lively?
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/olympics/
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