NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 54: "PUNK KITTENS AND THE TWATLAS"
This Week:
- Punk Kittens sing White Stripes
- The Twatlas, introducing the swearing map
- New Weebl thing
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B3ta email 54 - 30 Aug 2002
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: PUNK KITTENS SING THE WHITE STRIPES
aka The Rathergood Corner
Joel Veitch runs a site called Rathergood.
He's our mate and we love his deranged work.
Joel writes -
"This week I've been listening to the pop
group The White Stripes. They rock. I thought
they'd rock even more dressed as cats.
"Now they are."
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/
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: THE TWATLAS
Learn how to swear in foreign.
Like all good ideas - this one started
in the pub.
We were talking to the Australian Channel V
presenter Andrew G and he said, "Remember
when a foreign exchange student came to
your school - all people wanted to know was
how to swear in other languages?"
"Wouldn't it be great if you made a web page
to teach them?"
How could we refuse a challenge like that?
http://b3ta.com/sweary-map/
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: NEW WEEBL AND BOB THING
"Gallery"
Jonti has been busy. He's made a new cartoon
in the Weebl and Bob series.
This one is all about a painting competition,
oh and pie.
BTW: Remember we told you that Weebl was
undergoing a name change for TV? Apparently
it'll be "Wobbl and Bob". Cunning.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/pie/gallery.html
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Name a kitten, Bunny anim, BT Abuse, Vomit
>> Pub Fight <<
Have you ever wondered if Kylie could beat
Madonna in a pub fight? Wonder no more.
Crazymum has built a site where you can submit
two photos and web users can vote. It's Pick
the Hottie meets Fight Club.
http://www.pubfight.com/
>> Name a Kitten <<
Tomsk and Phil are getting a couple of kittens.
They want suggestions for a name. There's
already some great suggestions on the page.
Our favourite so far? 'Cut & Paste'
http://www.tomandphil.myby.co.uk/kitten/index.php
>> Angry Bunny stop-frame animation <<
Bean has been taking photographs of his fluffy
bunny and gluing them together in this cute
animation. AD AGENCIES! Rip this off now. Like
you normally do. Wankers. (Note: Big download.)
http://makeashorterlink.com/
>> Abusing BT for fun <<
This page has been banned from the Internet
Kiosks at Waterloo station. It's designed
purely to suck bandwidth - and one night
generated half a million hits. Elliot - who
made the page - is very proud.
http://www.elliotcooper.com/loop.html
>> Photos of a man vomiting milk <<
Malky is planning to launch a new website full
of "pointless things." And they don't get much
more pointless than this - he drank a gallon of
milk, puked and photographed it. Respect.
http://www.btinternet.com/~john.dobbie2/malky/milk...
>> Are you on the blob? The results <<
A while back we conducted a survey where we
asked you whether you were menstruating. And
now? We have the results. Sunday, 18th August
was the blobbiest day in the world.
http://www.b3ta.com/are-you-on-the-blob/vote.php
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> Pull my finger <<
It had to happen. Someone has made a page
with a big finger on it. Click it? And it
makes a fart noise. Kids will love it.
http://www.whitetrash.nl/pmf/
>> Knitted album covers <<
These tiny knitting patterns feature album
covers - including the Aphex Twin, Michael
Jackson and Human League. It's fluffy pixel
art. Charming.
http://www.sewkits.co.uk
>> Japanese Asciimation <<
A few issues back we linked to something we
called "Japanese ascii penis kittens go wild."
We've found another work in a similar style.
It's not as rude - but it's very beautiful.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar-Keyboard/2348...
>> Turn your dead relatives into coral reef <<
Following on from "turn your dead relative into
a diamond" - you can now encase your granny's
ashes in concrete and drop them in the sea.
This seeds fresh coral growth and provides new
homes for fish. Much better than a diamond.
http://www.eternalreefs.com/cremains.htm
>> Interactive cat animation <<
How cute is this? It purrs! And it'll swipe
at your mouse.
http://www.broenink-art.nl/maukie.swf
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from Implements of Doom 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 was 'Household Implements of Doom!'
http://b3ta.com/challenge/doom/
We asked Freddy Woo to judge the entries
- here are his 3 faves.
Freddy writes -
#1 "The Plate Swore Revenge" (by rogan) -
simple, silly, but funny and manages
to give inanimate objects real
character.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/8/7/3/5/3/
#2 "Blue Ringed Octomop" (by indole_ring) -
lovely expression on this guy's face and
it's always good to see a new animal on
b3ta.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/8/2/5/7/4/
#3 "Domestic Anteater" (by dansegar) - I'm
gonna get me one of these... especially
as it's fully compatible (with ants)."
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2/8/1/3/3/2/
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Shindig gave us
the suggestion, "The ungodly love child of
X and Y."
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/lovechild/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* FOX'S BISCUITS SENDS FREEBIES - Nicey reviews
biscuits on his site. Fox's biscuits emailed
him, "We are always happy to service the
biscuit enthusiast, and would be glad to
send you a whole host of biscuits -
including the legendary sports biscuit with
that stick man design!" Next week? Nicey
reviews gold ingots. Spawny Git.
* BANNED WEBSITES - last week we told you that
rathergood.com has been banned by many UK
schools. We've since learnt that it's also
banned from local government offices.
(Along with NTK and Popbitch.)
* B3TA PERSON WINS 5K COMPETITION - sort of.
Thor Sonofodin came 7th for his Pixel Ninja
entry. Well done!
http://entries.the5k.org/1046/pixelninja.htm
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.
Stuff we'd really like to see includes
* Real world projects. We love this stuff.
* Your animations, games and projects.
* We like emails that start "I made this."
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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newsletter. Anything submitted later will be
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THANKS: This weeks links supplied by Grant
Gahagan, Jez, Keith, Joelle Cleveland,
FilePile.org, 44048 and Dave.
And a special thanks to Mike Trinder for
helping edit this issue.
