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This Week:
* BENCHES - Catalogued at last
* BAD OPINIONS - Now with MORE of them
* IMAGE CHALLENGE - Rejected greetings cards

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B3ta email 682  - 15 Jun 2018

Read this issue again and double our traffic:
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue682

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: MONKEON CORNER
  Your message here, written in 10ps

  In celebration of the Great British alphabet,
  the Royal Mint has released a different 10p
  coin for each letter of the alphabet. In
  celebration of the oddness of this, Monkeon has
  created a tool that lets you see what that
  would look like representing your name. 
http://www.monkeon.co.uk/10ptyper/

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: BENCHES OF THE WORLD
  All in a handy database
  
  "One day, you're going to die," monotones
  Terence Eden. "Perhaps your family and friends
  will commission a bench in your honour? If you
  spot a memorial bench while out jogging or
  dogging, please snap a photo and add it to our
  collection of over seven thousand benches."
  OVER. SEVEN. THOUSAND. BENCHES. And b3tans -
  please add more.
http://openbenches.org 


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: JUST A THROW-AWAY JOKE
  Self service checkout

  This caused confusion in the B3ta newsletter
  team, with one of us giggling and the other
  just baffled by it. Thanks Mudface.
http://picosong.com/weiXN/


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: BAD OPINIONS
  Shared at last

  We've been asking you for your bad opinions
  that you don't dare share.

  * "Mrs Brown's Boys is a finely-crafted show
  full of subtle humour"
  * "The Frog Chorus is McCartney's best song"
  * "James Corden may be flawed but is very
  talented"
  * "We should trial execution for petty but
  infuriating crimes such as fly-tipping. The
  death penalty is not a deterrent against murder
  but it would be against fly-tipping"
  * "Grease 2 is better than Grease. Fact."

  If you've got more bad opinions then share them
  with our bot which we're keeping behind a
  padlock because these opinions are so bad and
  dangerous:
https://twitter.com/anon_opin


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: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BBC
  Embrace gaming vlogging please

  With BBC viewership in the news again because
  of an ageing audience your Ginger Controller
  Rob Manuel has a suggestion: "Dear BBC: start a
  full-time gaming vlogging channel for the
  sanity of parents.  As a public service
  broadcaster I genuinely think the BBC should
  make long-form gaming vlogger videos on YouTube
  but presented by people who aren't sexist,
  alt-right or swearing all the time. Parents
  need this as it's what kids watch."
http://bit.ly/2JI7He3


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: WEIRD GAME TIME
  "You are on a Zeppelin" Text Adventure

  It starts as a typical day flying your
  dirigible across the Mars landscape, but things
  soon get weird. "A puzzly text adventure game
  involving a zeppelin, some robots, a
  paternoster lift and a space elf," explains
  creator Newington.
http://versificator.net/zeppelin-adventure


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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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: OLD COMPUTER GAME JOKES
  "Software Hamlet"

  Your newsletter editor has taken it onto
  himself to write about 70 throwaway about old
  computers. It's also an unlikely tribute to
  Software City in Wolverhampton, the place that
  took most of his paper-round money in the 80s.
  If any readers have a photos of the place we'd
  love to see it.
https://b3ta.com/blog/software-hamlet/

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: TRUMP PROTEST
  A giant orange Trump-baby hovering over London 

  "We've asked the Mayor to let us fly him over
  London when Trump visits Britain on 13th July,"
  writes unclepills. "But officials at City Hall
  have told us that #TrumpBaby is 'not a
  protest'. Apparently, he is 'art'" and
  therefore needs a different sort of permit.

  Would you like to see a 6m tall, bright orange
  baby annoying Donald Trump while he's here? You
  can bung them a few quid to get it done at the
  link below, or let them use your central London
  garden, if you have such a thing. And if you
  have such a thing, will you be our new sugar
  daddy?
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/trump-baby/ 


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: IMAGE CHALLENGE
  Kids' books with adult covers

  Last week we asked you to remake kids' books
  with adult covers and over 100 of you did,
  producing a fine collective work of art. It's
  really worth having a look, it's a minor
  classic of a challenge:
https://www.b3ta.com/challenge/kidscoversadultbook...


  This week we're doing rejected greetings cards.
  Please do your worst.
https://www.b3ta.com/challenge/rejectedcards/


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: SITES IN BEEFS
  Other content that tickled our net penises

  >> Smooth Criminal - with beats missing <<
  The most enjoyable way to beat YouTube's
  copyright-detecting algorithm; simply fillet
  every other beat and create a Dadaist
  masterpiece of Michael Jackson moans and meaty
  beats.
http://bit.ly/2LSzyVj


  >> CBeebies World Cup anthem <<
  Bouncy, catchy and other words that describe
  our vague understanding of football. But this
  is a lovely thing, featuring scoutmaster wonder
  dog, Duggee and the Squirrels.
https://www.b3ta.com/links/World_Cup_anthem


  >> French Métro names taken literally <<
  "Photographs acting out the names of Paris
  Métro stations," helpfully points out
  notoolsovernight. A French photographer and
  chums have a good time acting out these names -
  a nice change to see this kind of thing when it
  isn't on the London Underground.
http://golem13.fr/janol-apin-stations-metro


  >> Depeche Mud <<
  Extremely raw early set from Basildon's premier
  synth-based entertainment troupe.
https://www.b3ta.com/links/Have_a_little_bit_of_De...


  >> ASCII art tattoos <<
  Upside: A very cool effect. Downside: When
  you're old people will think you got your leg
  caught in a dot matrix printer. 
https://www.vrontistattoo.com/tattoo


  >> Slayer vs George Michaels <<
  Sweaty metalheads thrash their guitars in a
  pyramid while sophisticated George flirts with
  a sexy lady on a yacht. Remember mashups? This
  would be one of the good ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch


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THANKS:

Words: Dave Stevenson and Rob Manuel.

Linky lovelies: presferatu, Ambegris, Yoofaloo,
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  Four out of five holes in your head are the
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  is not a coincidence. (Digeridude)
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