NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 32: SHEMALES, TONY HART & EASTER
This Week:
- Female or Shemale Challenge
- Get Tony Hart to draw you an animal
- B3ta Appeal - we've made it
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B3ta email 32 - 29 MARCH 2002 - "We're saving the
web ... together"
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: FEMALE OR SHEMALE CHALLENGE
Can you tell?
Last week we were surfing the net and noticed
a link that said "Can you spot the shemale?"
We thought, "Aha. What a good interesting
idea for a quiz."
We followed the link, and it took us to some
crappy cartoon that presented three cartoon
ladies and a magic cup game.
"What a load of rubbish", we thought, "Let's
show them how to do it properly."
So we did.
http://b3ta.com/femaleorshemale/
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: B3TA APPEAL - UPDATE
We've made it!
What a fantastic couple of weeks. It's been
magic that everyday that we get up, the
postman has bought us more cheques.
It's been like Christmas everyday.
We've now got enough cash to move server to
a Texan ISP called rackshack.net, and fingers
crossed, it'll all work out.
Thanks to everyone who contributed, and a
special thanks to Cal Henderson from iamcal.com
who both programmed all the tricksy stuff that
runs the site and has also agreed to handle the
server change over.
So it's three woos for Cal, and three woos for
you.
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: HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY THIS WEEK
Get Tony Hart to draw you an animal
Childrens TV Artists Tony Hart is much loved
in the UK. Many of us remember him fondly
from their childhood.
Tony has now set up a small ecommerce operation
to sell his drawings.
Simply send him £24, and the name of an animal
and he'll draw it.
How cool is that?
http://www.tonyhart.nildram.co.uk/merchandise.htm
(BTW: We are interested in mentioning more
cool products for sale. Please send
suggestions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/)
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: MP3 of the week
MC Pitman - Pitman Says
Coming on like a young Sean Ryder, the
offensive and hilarious MC Pitmans raps about
biscuits and pikeys on council estates.
http://www.sonrecords.com/audio.html (scroll down)
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: PENGUINS, POLAR BEARS & RANDOM SWEARING
Together at last - in one great game.
There are some that say the b3ta in-joke games
have gone too far, but we say that you haven't
seen this yet. It's time to play 3D breakout
pong with penguins, polar bears & random
swearing.
Say thanks to board member Doktored for this bit
of er... utterly taking the piss.
He says, "I am the foul mouthed third member
of an Islington creative design company. When
we're not chasing clients for unpaid cheques
we mostly like drawing sexy cartoon dogs."
Play the game - it's plays well.
http://www.noisytoys.tv/b3ta/furtivewallball.swf
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: THE WOO AND YAY ANIMATION
B3ta culture eats it's self. Again.
A recent phenomenon on the b3ta board, is people
showing approval to good images by following
them with a small "woo and yay" animation.
Penguins shouting woo - that type of thing.
These are becoming increasingly sophisticated,
almost like graffiti tagging.
Board member FatBoab has glued them all together
into one animation, with music supplied by
other board member Spacefish.
The music is it's self a cut up bootleg of many
of the tunes used on different B3ta projects.
The end result is peculair, but rather
entertaining.
BTW: It's a 3.5MB download. You'll need a
fast link to appreciated it.
http://www.design4online.com/b3ta/woo.swf
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Benny, heroin & Andrew Washington MP3
B3ta reader Neilmg got in touch and said, "Do
you remember that old schoolyard joke 'Are you
a benny tied to a tree?' Well, I had a member
of my staff put this site together in honour
of that oft overlooked classic."
http://www.benny-tree.co.uk
Something to read: a moving desciption of a
father losing his son to heroin addiction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,675215,0...
Can you tell Japanese, Chinese and Korean
people apart? Take this test and find out if you
are as politically correct as you think you are.
http://www.alllooksame.com/
ERRATUM! Many readers got in touch last week
to say that the Andrew Washington bootleg MP3
had been taken down. Here is a working link.
It's still fantastic.
http://b3ta.com/files/thorpe.mp3
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results - T-shirt winner - Easter 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 to design T Shirts.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/hell/
The winner? There were so many good entries
that this it's impossible to choose. But we
would love to wear this Atari Battlezone
tshirt from modesty_b_cat. It's fantastic.
http://www.fluffykittens.com/b3ta/battlezone.gif
This week's challenge? Easter eggs are so
boring. Design some new Easter mechandise for
Jesus.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/easter/
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: NINE MORE GREAT T-SHIRT DESIGNS
Because one winner wasn't enough.
Great Sinclair Spectrum design (binster)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/1/4/7/3/
Pronstar - a nice rip off of the Pornstar
t-shirts. (modesty_b_cat)
http://www.fluffykittens.com/b3ta/pr0nstar2.gif
Pic of Jesus on the cross, says "don't bite
your nails" Nice for Easter. (lurker_no_more)
http://www.thosebears.com/b3ta/nailsb3ta.jpg
Status Quo tour shirt. We like this one alot
- wouldn't wanna wear it though. (Grinfish)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/9/3/0/2/
Is B3ta finished? (witchy)
http://www.vorbis.demon.co.uk/quotee1.jpg
In the style of an old Slayer T-shirt,
"Sidcup, welcome to the dark sie of Kent"
(wilsonc001)
http://wilsonc001.members.easyspace.com/images/sid...
Arrow pointing to wearers head - says "I'm
with stupid" (Captin Kimbo)
http://kimbo-be-coo.com/im-with-stupid.jpg
Great geeky shirt with lots of html tags.
(grinfish)
http://www.grinfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/be...
For the self loathing web author, a shirt
with <big><div> on it.
http://www.tomandphil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tomsk/t...
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: NICE PEOPLE HELPING SAVE B3TA:
We kiss you!
Elizabeth Pacey, D J McEvoy, Pistol Pete,
LumpBucket, New_Matt, Woodchuck Matthew Potter,
PeterSeychelles, Stuart Parkins, ScruffyOik,
Mister Al, GE BLOXHAM.
BTW: Sorry if we missed you out. We haven't
got the records to hand - we'll mention you
next week.
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: JOIN IN!
We're saving the web - and we need your help.
http://b3ta.com/board/
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