NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 56: "MEAT OR ACCIDENT?"
This Week:
- Meat or Accident Quiz
- Gay Skeleton Animation
- Exploit a Cripple
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B3ta email 56 - 13 Sept 2002
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: MEAT OR ACCIDENT
Can you tell? Can you?
David Wellington has made a quiz. It tests
whether you can tell the difference between
meat or someone who has been badly hurt.
It's quite repellent and made us wince.
We love it.
http://mantlepies.com/meatoraccident/
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WHO WANTS TO BE AN ASTRONAUT? The BBC is
developing a reality TV show where punters
compete to be an astronaut. This is the
best TV idea ever.
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: GAY SKELETONS
Dancing! Singing! And being lovely
Matt Round writes -
"I've spent the weekend playing around with
plastic skeletons in a tribute to Ray
Harryhausen."
Wow - and he's certainly come up trumps. His
choice of music and choreography are inspired.
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/
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JAPANESE PEEPING TOMS - the Japanese are
using camera phones to surreptitiously take
naughty pictures in public. A favourite ploy
is aiming the handset up ladies' skirts on
the Tube.
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: EXPLOIT A CRIPPLE
For your ad campaign.
Todd Swank has unique talent - he's got funny
looking arms.
He's reckons that would make him ideal for an
advertising campaign.
"Hire the Handicapped", he writes, "we're fun
to watch. A creative marketing team could
leverage my skill for being noticed by the
general public into a successful series of
television commercials."
The cost? He's asking for $2 million.
Is he mad? Maybe, but it's a nice try.
http://www.shortarmguy.com/exploitation.htm
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Puppies, Gloom, Sticks, and Sleeping Drunks
>> Toilet Training a Puppy <<
Weebl has made this nice short animation about
the problems of house breaking pets. It made
us laugh.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/b3ta/pets1.html
>> Ingmar Bergman Stand-up Comedy <<
Mushy Bees reveals why Ingmar Bergman is more
famous for bleak Swedish films rather than
stand-up comedy. Thanks - we were wondering.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dirty.sanchez/BERGEP0...
>> Touching stick figure story <<
Robin Johnson bares his soul on the Internet
through the medium of stick figure animation.
Surprisingly affecting and poignant.
http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/b3ta/story.gif
>> Balancing stuff on drunk mates <<
Stuck for a new game to play when you're
drunk? Why not stack things on your sleeping
friends? (Thanks to 'The Love Manatee')
http://benjanaway.users.btopenworld.com/EFE.htm
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> Alchemy Game <<
This online puzzle takes a few minutes to get
your head round and then it's too late - you're
sucked in. We've been playing it two hours
a day for the last week. It should be banned.
http://games.yahoo.com/games/alchemy.html
>> Warp your photos in 3D <<
Remember that link where you could drag George
Bush around by the nose? The designer has made
a fantastic variation where you can use any
photo on the net. It's brilliant - but it's
a shame that you can't email your creations
to friends.
http://www.foulds2000.freeserve.co.uk/test/drawMas...
>> Mobile phone stun gun <<
This Ebay seller has made a stun gun disguised
as a phone. It can deliver a 180,000 volt
shock. Ouch. Doesn't work as a phone though.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll
>> Porn Star Action Figures <<
Nerdy blokes like porn. Nerdy blokes like
action figures. Why not kill two birds with
one stone?
http://www.plasticfantasy.com/jenna_fr.html
>> Talk like pirate <<
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming.
On Sept 19th you must answer the phone
with "Ahoy, me hearty!" Else you're a scurvy
dog.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainme...
>> Burger Animation <<
This is a incoherent and hate-filled song about
a fast food restaurant. Not much happens but
there is a real sense of rage.
http://sherm.20megsfree.com/burgerking.swf
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from Straight to Video 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 wanted Films that went straight
to Video:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/straighttovideo/
We asked B3ta boarder indole_ring to judge the
entries - here are his 3 faves.
#1 "Pitch Black" (by meester t) -
"There is beauty in simplicity, and there is
no doubt that this film would go straight to
video - if it managed to get released at all.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/2/3/1/3/7
#2 "Legally Blind" (by Dr. Phil Kitten) -
"A good idea, seamless photoshopping, as well
as bonus jokes in the small text.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/1/3/9/2/8
#3 "Shall we Dance" (by bluemerle) -
"Who could resist Fred Astaire and Ginger Kitten
in a golden oldie?"
http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/2/6/2/9/6
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor shaolin_bukkake
suggested, "Toys unsafe for children"
http://b3ta.com/challenge/unsafetoys/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* WIN GAY SEX - a few weeks ago we offered you
the chance to date Log, the creator of Law of
the Playground. No-one followed the rules
properly, and unless a gay man sends him a
picture of what their love looks like soon,
he's going to have to do something silly.
http://www.log.dial.pipex.com/mememe/lovemedo.htm
* B3TA MUSIC VOTE - Koit has spent the last
couple of months making tunes inspired
by the messageboard. Last week he asked
you to vote for the best songs. Here are
the results.
http://www.koit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/koitvote.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
* New quizzes. But no "which x am I" stuff.
* Dangerous stunts in your office.
* Your usual mix of animation and stupid
things.
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
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THANKS:
Granniesbungalow, Craig Hiley, Cymone &
AndrewG, Jonti and Fraser for the links.
David Stevenson for helping edit the issue.
Mike Trinder for handling the image challenge.
B4ta for proof reading. (45215)
