NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 66: "VANDALISE THE WEB"
This Week:
* QUIZ - Gash or Tash
* VANDALISE WEBSITES - an evil tool
* INTERVIEW - voice of the London Underground
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B3ta email 66 - 22 NOV 2002
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: GRAFITTI ANY SITE ON THE WEB
With this handy tool
What can be better than drawing a cock on
a wall? Nothing, except drawing it on a web
page.
IZB writes -
"With my fantastic new tool, you can vandalise
other people's websites, adding images and text
of your own. Then, and best of all, you can show
other people your handiwork."
Look. Learn. Do.
http://makeashorterlink.com/
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: THE VOICE OF THE UNDERGROUND
Interviewed by us
Emma Clarke is the voice of the London Tube.
She says stuff like "The next stop is
Cockfosters."
We think this is the coolest thing in the world
and have interviewed her.
http://www.b3ta.com/people/emmaclarke/
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: GASH OR TASH
Can you tell?
Alistair Scott wrote to us and said -
"Is your website now run by girls or
something? What happened to classics like
Funnel or Tunnel? All there is now is
twatting dancing cats. Sort it out."
Well Mr Alistair Scott, this one's for you.
http://www.b3ta.com/gash-or-tash/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Weebl, Santa, Geeks, The Office, Football
>> The return of Weebl & Bob <<
Jonti has been busy recently making animations
for MTV. However, he's finally had a bit of
free time to make the next episode of "Bob's
week in France." Blimey.
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/bobs%20week%20in%20fra...
>> Secret Santa <<
Each year B3ta gods Cal & Pep and their
friend Tom run a special service for people
with Amazon wish lists. It allows you to send
and receive presents from people around
the world. Pep says, "We want everyone to join
in, not just webloggers. We recommend that
people have something on their wish list that's
about $10-$15 so people don't have to spend
too much."
http://www.thinkblank.com/santa/
>> "We're Geeks" say Geeks <<
Simon Panrucker has made a song and video about
being a geek. "Most of it is about my own life",
he says, "I'm the really geeky looking one in
the Atari t-shirt, although I don't look that bad
in real life... I hope."
http://www.marshallsoftware.co.nz/b3ta/simonp/geek...
>> The Office - The Making of ... <<
Wondered about David Brent's amazing dancing?
According to Mr Fancyteeth, it was animatronics.
http://www.mantlepies.com/brent.html
>> Football animation <<
Rogan is a Photoshop genius. His gags have
been brightening up our board for a while.
He's now experimenting with flash. Here
are the results.
http://www.roganjosh.co.uk/showFlash.asp
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> How to pee in public <<
Are you troubled with piss anxiety? This guy
was and he overcame his problem. The trick -
don't be scared of the big boys - is to imagine
yourself pissing on their shoes.
http://www.eastwest.nu/mtblog/archives/000014.html
>> Serial Killer art <<
Nico Claux is a cannibal. He recently spent
12 years in a French prison for eating people.
And now? He's out and on the web. He paints
pictures of his favourite serial killers.
Not very good pictures, mind.
http://www.sondralondon.com/nico/killer/art.htm
>> Spock sings Tolkien <<
Spock and Kirk both had abortive pop careers
in the late 60s. Their songs are legendarily
shite, but did you know Spock made a video?
It's pretty kitsch, and doesn't he look young!
http://homepage.mac.com/celkjer/iMovieTheater2.htm...
>> Photoshopped or Hoaxed <<
With so many altered images floating about the
web, see if you can spot the difference. We
scored 9 on level 1 and 7 on level 2.
We're rubbish.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest....
>> A child's diary <<
Animated versions of an 8-year old's diary.
Funny and sweet.
http://www.angryalien.com/amys_diary.html
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from '1950s health warnings' 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 '1950s Government Warnings'
http://b3ta.com/challenge/governmentwarning/
We asked B3ta legend Weebl to judge the
entries - here are his 3 faves.
Weebl writes -
#1 "Keep your head in the car - this warning is
lovely and so very very true. (Santexo)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/8/3/7/8/4/
#2 "Do not shrink guitars - simple but made me
laugh. (Chief Wiggum)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/8/3/4/8/5/
#3 "Your country needs yo-yos - who thought
something different could be done with
this picture?" (Gias)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4/8/6/8/3/3/
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Pep gave us
the suggestion, "Who's lurking in the garden?"
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/garden/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* JOEL ON HIS LIFE IN TV - "I had to pretend
to be a foot fetishist with a thing for Gail
Porter. She was supposed to walk on my back.
She came very close to freaking out. I didn't
realise they hadn't told her it was a
stitch-up."
* VENTED SPLEEN - last week Fraser asked you
to send him your anger. You did. You need
therapy - some of this stuff is foul.
http://www.blogjam.com/vent/
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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.
Things we'd really like NOT to see include
* Sites claiming to be "The English Onion"
* Emails saying, "My mate made this." We want
stuff YOU make.
* URLs with haha, funny or comedy in them.
Send contributions to http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/
BTW: If you've sent something in that hasn't
been featured then don't be put off - we look
at everything you send us.
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THANKS:
This issue was edited by Rob Manuel with David
Stevenson.
Links sent in by Freddy Woo, Annalise, Jennifer
Shiman, Jon Brownridge & Fraser.
Image challenge handled by Denise Wilton.
Proofing by the hooded b4ta druids.
Special thanks to Cal for rewriting our
"rendering engine". Yay, we so render.
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