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This Week:
* YORE COMPUTER - Wallow in old computer mags
* STAR WARS VS DISNEY - The truth!
* QUIZ - Judging books from their cover

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B3ta email 680  - 2nd June 2018

Read this issue via the website b3ta dot com
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue680 

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: GOOD NEWS 
  Site back, Back! BACK!

  B3ta dot com is mostly back after the fucking
  disastrous Hetzner hosting issue. They had a
  power surge which fried the hard disk. Yes of
  course we had backups but we had to rebuild on
  a new machine which took time, and we're still
  working through issues.

  But the positive is that we've moved to HTTPS
  (woo) and we're on a server that's twice as
  fast.

  So let's get on with a newsletter, ok children?

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: YORE COMPUTER
  A bot that post random pages of old mags

  Your newsletter editor Rob has been reading old
  computer mags again and cooked up a bot that
  picks random pages and posts them up on Twitter
  in the hope odd bits of serendipity happen. And
  it does.
https://twitter.com/yorecomputer

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Social media is a fruit machine where if you win,
you win 1000s of worthless likes, and if you
lose, you lose your job.

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: BUY SOME FUCKING TROUSERS
  Sponsored patreon

  Hebtro make awesome trousers. And they're made
  by some old newsletter contributors in the UK.
  You should buy all your trousers there. Even
  extra trousers for your trousers.
https://hebtro.co/

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: STAR WARS VS DISNEY
  Taking the mickey 
  
  Photoshop legend S4RK has made a comment on the
  Disneyfication of the Star Wars films and it
  truly is a thing of wonder - so much work. 
https://www.b3ta.com/links/Star_Wars_vs_Disney

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: SENDING UPSIDE CRUCIFIXES TO GOVERNMENTS
  Because that's normal

  Spellingmistakescostlives writes, "The Bavarian
  govt just brought in a law that all state
  buildings have to display a cross in public, so
  I sent a crucifix 'from' the prime minister to
  each of the buildings, but with the hook
  swapped to the bottom of the cross so it hangs
  upside down."
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/kreuzpfl...

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Your Twitter crush has you on mute.

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: BOOK COVER QUIZ
  Monkeon is back with his quiz heroin

  They say you can't judge a book by its cover,
  but can you tell which books are the same book
  but with different covers? BTW: We've always
  thought it weird that book publishers dick
  around with covers so much whereas LP covers
  are considered much less changeable. 
http://www.monkeon.co.uk/bookcoverconcentration/

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Doctor: "This has to stop. Swallowing chocolates
whole and then sticking your finger down your
throat until you vomit them up is a disease."

Heather Smalls from the M People: You gotta
search for the hero inside yourself.

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: NEED PR? BEST CALL ED
  Sponsored patreon

  "I'm Ed Zitron and I'm running the best PR
  company in the world - and I've been reading
  B3ta for 15 years so have sponsored them."
  Thank you Ed. You're the BEST. And you have
  100k followers on Twitter. Which is pretty
  impressive, can we borrow some?
https://twitter.com/edzitron


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: ONE LETTER CELEBRITY NAME CHANGE CHALLENGE
  Image challenge results 
 
  Two weeks ago we asked you to change one letter
  in a celeb name to make a bit of a joke - and
  it went quite well as we had over 170 entries.
  It's worth just reading from the top, some of
  them are harder to get than others but it's
  quite rewarding.   
https://www.b3ta.com/challenge/onelettercelebrityn...


  >> This week: farming films << 
  Now we want you to muck around with films and
  add the theme of farming. Of course.
https://www.b3ta.com/challenge/farmfilms/popular/


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Doctor: "If you continue to gorge on Lindt
chocolates you'll get diabetes. I've arranged for
the nurses to hide your stash."

Hue from the Hue & Cry: "I'll never stop looking,
never stop looking for Lindor." 

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: KIDS TELL JOKES
  Jokes written by kids

  * why does the crow laugh beacause they are mad
  ha ha ha I am also mad

  * What do you get when you cross a t-rex and a
  chicken nothing but death

  * who is the old man that have six eyes it is
  you

  * who is fool in the world? everyone is

  * what did the colour orenge say to the fruit
  orenge ? im calling the cops cose you stole my
  name

  * why wolves howl? because they have no idea
  what are they doing

  * what is the best part of bread... bread
https://twitter.com/KidsWriteJokes

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: TWATTER
  Sponsored patreon

  Kevin Prescott has made a very alarming
  alternative to Twitter called Twatter and wants
  you to look at it - he's called it an
  "anti-social network" but is up for better
  ideas of what he could do with the URL if you
  have any ideas.
https://www.twatter.com/


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: SITES IN BRIEF
  Stuff we liked, handily pre-clicked for you

  * YOUR EDITOR MADE A JOKE ON TWITTER AND KERRY
  KATONA ENDING UP SINGING IT - there's something
  about writing up Twitter jokes as articles that
  always makes people sound like utter morons
  "When Rob Manuel realised Pret sells pretzels,
  he was very excited"
https://bit.ly/2sAEG8K


  * JUST LOOK AT THESE CORNER CUPBOARDS - people
  are sharing their innovative corner cabinets
  and it's sorta interesting. 
https://imgur.com/t/corner_cabinet


  * MICK DADDER - Mick Jagger leaving dorky dad
  comments on his teenage son's Instagram posts
  is very relatable. Actually feel a little bit
  sorry for Mick here - he's reaching out to his
  son and he doesn't know what to say.
https://twitter.com/dpatrickrodgers/status/1001899...


  * POUNDLAND DUNKING ON THAMESLINK IS FUNNY -
  get the feeling that Poundland's social media
  can do what the hell they like as their parent
  company is in financial woe.
https://twitter.com/TheStuffOfMemes/status/1001869...


  * TWITCH STREAMING 500 EPISODES OF OLD DOCTOR
  WHO - turns out that watching TV with a 90s
  style internet chatroom happening at the same
  time is exactly what people want to do.
  Brilliant.
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Doctor%20Who


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: THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE GOATSE CORNER
  A restaurant logo in San Francisco

  They must know. They must surely know.
https://bit.ly/2J8NlKN


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: COPYWRITER WANTS JOB
  Sponsored patreon

  One of our sponsorships slots has been taken by
  Josh, who writes: "A good friend of mine is
  looking for a decent job doing good copywriting
  for someone who's not a cunt. I've not told him
  I'm going to do this but how would you feel
  about plugging him in the newsletter? His name
  is Thom Wong."
https://allknown.info/

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: PATREON THANKS
  The people who make it all happen

  *JOSH MCMILLAN* *AARON HOLMES* *TOM JENKINS
  BATES* *JON GRANT* *SHOWRAT * *SIMON JAMES*
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  *KATE * *JAMES PETTS* *STEWART NOLAN* *BRYAN
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: SUB

https://www.b3ta.com/subscribe/

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: SOME JOKES AS A REWARD FOR GETTING TO THE END

  What do Kanye West and brussel sprouts have in
  common? I hate them


  Contrary to popular belief, Stephen Hawking
  wasn't a theoretical physicist. He was real.


  What's #000000 and #FFFFFF and #FF0000 all
  over? A newspaper dot com

  Please write a joke and apologise for it:
https://b3ta.com/questions/imsorryivewrittenajoke/

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