NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 29: FAKE SOMEONE'S DEATH. IT'S BACK!
This Week:
- Fake Someone's Death
- Osymyso Interviewed
- Design an Animal for the B3ta Zoo
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B3ta email 29 - 01 MARCH 2002 - "We're saving the web"
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: FAKE SOMEONE'S DEATH
It's back!
Last year, the most fantastic thing on the
Internet was a tool that allowed you to make
a fake news report about someone's death.
It got half a million users in 1 weekend, and
was so naughty that lawyers were crawling
over it in days.
And now? Web nutter Flibz has brought it
back.
Please note: this tool is destructive, illegal
and will not be up for long.
So have fun while you can:
http://flibz.dns2go.com/dead/
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NERD JOKE: Following Jonathan King's imprisonment,
police are investigating Adobe for their links
to PDF files.
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: OSYMYSO INTERVIEW
The King of Boots speaks to B3ta.
Osymyso makes bootleg MP3s - i.e. he mixes bits
of old songs together to make new tracks.
He said, "Your site is like my stuff. The message
board people mix stuff up, and buzz off it."
Read it in full.
http://b3ta.com/people/osymyso/
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B3TA SALUTES: PHONE SPAMMERS
Hoaxers forced Downing Street to change their
phone number by sending text messages to
thousands of mobile phones saying, "Hi mate,
phone me ASAP, crap signal in this pub. If
I don't answer, ask for Tony who runs the
place." Respect.
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: SITES IN BRIEF
More good links that we've seen this week.
Lengthy, but stylish animation of a running egg.
http://www.kickbin.com/ocean/exp_doubleyolker.html
Eija-Riitta Eklöf-Berliner-Mauer is sexually and
emotionally attracted to objects. In 1979 she
married the The Berlin Wall.
http://www.geocities.com/berlinwall_se/
Unchained Melody - this pushes the misheard
lyric idea further by attempting to mishear
almost every lyric in the song.
http://tommymackay.tripod.com/unchained.htm
All the pics from the Tiffany Playboy shoot.
http://www.tokisip.com/pb/tiff/
Get your B3ta penguin wallpaper here.
http://sasquatch.5u.com/images/monguincopterloveop...
Can you code a website in 256bytes? Some of the
fractal entries are mind boggling.
http://wildmag.de/compo.php
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results - winner - new challenge.
Each week we run a competition to test your
creative skills. We set a challenge and you open
Photoshop and mess with our heads.
Last week we asked you for ideas on new sports
for the Winter Olympics.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/olympics/
The winner? Pabulums "How Penguins Learned
to Fly."
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/pix/flying...
This week's challenge? We want you to design
an animal for the B3ta zoo.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/zoo/
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: AND FINALLY
The animal interest story.
Latvian Ministry of Defence has admitted that
it spends 71% more feeding its dogs than its
human soldiers. As no one in Latvia makes dog
food, they have to import it.
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We're saving the web - and we need your help.
http://b3ta.com/board/
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