NEWSLETTER: PUNCH GEORGE OSBORNE IN HIS ODIOUS FACE
This Week:
* FIGHT - Which is the best chocolate bar?
* CHROMEBOOKS - Should you buy one?
* FUNNY NAME CORNER - It's back back back!
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B3ta email 636 - 4 JUL 2014
Touch this issue with your iPenis:
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue636
YAY : [email protected]
NAY : [email protected]
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
>> All The Kings & Queens Of England <<
Jfalle writes, "Here's a poem about the Kings
and Queens of England. ALL of them." Yay poems!
Yay pageantry! Yay the Royals!
http://www.b3ta.com/links/All_The_Kings_Queens_Of_...
>> Rolf Harris' comics career <<
Ambegris writes, "This is all I have to say
about the man. In a comics blog." We're
personally saying nothing about Rolf, the bad
taste gags are all played out and the whole
establishment being apparently riddled with
paedophiles is a bit grim, even for us.
http://the-slipper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-othe...
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: USVSTH3M CORNER
The other project run by Team B3ta
* SLAP GEORGE OSBORNE - the fun bit isn't just
whacking him but you can see how many other
slaps he's had too. About 250,000 at time of
writing, our ambition is to get it to at least
1,000,000 then possibly some voodoo magic will
happen.
http://games.usvsth3m.com/slap-george-osborne/
* WHICH GENIUS DO YOU SLEEP LIKE? - click your
sleep pattern to compare yourself to clever
people. BTW: We nearly put Maggie Thatcher in,
as she famously only slept 4hrs per week. Then
we remembered she wasn't a genius and just a
puppet of the dark forces of capitalism.
http://games.usvsth3m.com/which-genius-do-you-slee...
* WHICH IS THE BEST CHOCOLATE BAR? Fight! is
going strong with some amazing user submitted
lists including important confectionary based
work like this:
http://games.usvsth3m.com/fight/which-is-the-best-...
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates
* AMAZING HARDCORE MOUSE - reminds us of
Jean-Claude Van Damme.
http://imgur.com/9ZNLN6l
* THE LOST ART OF THE CUTAWAY ILLUSTRATION - we
don't see these much anymore. For shame.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/15/the-lost-...
* THE MOOD ALTERING EXPERIMENTS OF FACEBOOK -
reminds us of this from John Higgs about the
Daily Mail:
http://jmrhiggs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-daily-m...
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: GOOGLE CHROMEBOOKS
Our opinion? Buy one
This newsletter was written using Google Docs
on a £179 Google Chromebook.
We bought it on a whim and it's quickly become
our favourite laptop. Dirt cheap and utterly
great. Turns out that for 90% of our work a
browser is all we need - checking Twitter,
writing email, writing docs, the normal stuff.
Amazing battery life too - genuninely 6 to 8
hours, unlike our Macbook Air which can do
about 90 minutes before dying on its arse.
Model we grabbed is an Acer - lovely little
thing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/B00GX9HSK...
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: FUNNY NAME CORNER
It's back!
If you were targeting kids for a dental work
company would you really call it EZ Pedo?
https://www.ezpedo.com/index.html
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: VIDEO SCHMIDEO
Like MP3s but with moving images
* FUN WITH BLACK BULBS - occasional B3ta
contributor Lee Hardcastle fiddles around with
UV.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Fun_With_Black_Bulbs
* THE COOLEST KID YOU'LL EVER SEE - two little
kids having a scrap, but one has a fantastic
special move.
http://www.youtube.com/watch
* REVVING A CAR ENGINE - wait for it!
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Revving_a_car_engine_wai...
* CLEVER EGG THING - We're not easily
impressed, but we think if we had one of these
our lives would be complete.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Eierschalensollbruchstel...
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from 'The Bigger Picture'
Last week we asked you to expand familiar artwork
beyond its frame and show us what the original
artist cropped out.
Our favourites included:
* MOVING OUT: Whistler’s Grandmother is
relocated. (Captain Howdy)
http://b3ta.com/board/11085519
* PLACE FACE: Magritte’s Son of man gets
some classy friends (joefish)
http://b3ta.com/board/11085907
* ICE SCREAM: Munch’s Titanic depiction
(Barbarossa)
http://b3ta.com/board/11085335
All these images, and your favourites can be
found here:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/biggerpicture/
>> New challenge: Toy Mashup <<
This weeks challenge is to go all Doctor
Frankenstein on your childhood memories.
Chopping and stitching two or more toys
together to make a better one.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/toymashup/
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ARSEHOLES: [email protected]
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THANKS:
This issue was written by Rob Manuel with
David Stevenson. Stuff sent in by RompaStompa,
tits, Marxist Pig, hadr0n, Ghoti Fingers &
Pissflaps.
Image challenge by Fraser Lewry.
Mike Trinder is QOTW bloke.
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TOP TIP:
Make barbers think your hair grows really slowly
by using four different ones on rotation, and
telling them that they're the only barber you
go to. (Just a vagabond)
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: AND FINALLY
Which hack do you you trust the most?
Currently Orla Guerin MBE is winning - an
Irish correspondent currently working for BBC
News based in Cairo, with a strong showing for
young pretenders Owen Jones & Helen Lewis.
http://games.usvsth3m.com/fight/which-hack-do-you-...
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: AH FUCK IT, LET'S RUN THE AD AGAIN
Mainly because they sent us some free samples
Get your first 250g bag of Pact Coffee sent to
home or work for just £1 when you use code
'b3ta' here - delicious.
http://bit.ly/1xbIF7P
