NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 70 : "MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY"
This Week:
* GAME - Glam rock minesweeper
* MP3 - Mad person sings
* ANIM - 12 days of Xmas
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B3ta email 70 - 20 Dec 2002
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: GLAM ROCK XMAS MINESWEEPER
It does what it says on the tin
B3ta weirdo Monkeon writes -
"I was thinking that people always associate
Xmas with holly, Santa, Jesus etc., but tend to
miss the fact that it's also the season of glam
rock - with Slade, Wizzard, Mud and Shakey
always on the telly and on the PA system in
TK Maxx.
"As a result, I have made a glam rock
minesweeper variant."
http://www.monkeon.co.uk/glam/
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: NUTTER SINGS XMAS MESSAGE
20 minutes of musical madness
B3ta first-timer James Mitchell writes -
"The company where I work employs a lot of
people 'out in the regions'.
"We don't really have a lot of contact with them.
Especially because most of them are bonkers. One
woman has sent our head office a Christmas tape.
"It's a recording of her, a guitar, and her mother
on the tambourine."
"It was too good not to share."
http://www.poprevolution.co.uk/mp3/
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: 12 DAYS OF XMAS
According to the people on the B3ta board
B3ta message board regulars have got together
to make a special Christmas animation for you.
It's a curate's egg - good in parts.
http://www.milkthebridge.co.uk/christmas/12.swf
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates.
>> Adult Babies <<
They says Christmas is for the kids. Some
people never grow up as you can see from these
photos of men in children's clothes. Anyone
look familiar?
http://makeashorterlink.com/
>> One man's face - a year in photos <<
The best web projects are trivial, anal and
almost autistic in their attention to detail.
This is all three. It gets pretty exciting
a third down the page when the chap buys
some new glasses and gets a hair cut.
http://www.c71123.com/daily_photo/index.php
>> Entrance to Hell <<
Ever walked past an odd looking door? Ever
thought that it might be a portal to Satan's
sitting room? Send in your photos to this site.
(We're sending in a snap of the rotting front
door of our demented witch of a neighbour,
Themis Michaelidou.)
http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/
>> Learn to play Jingle Bells <<
Did you ever learn to play Chopsticks on the
piano by sticking numbers on the keys? Expand
your repertoire with Jingle Bells. Cute.
http://www.pianoiseasy.com/showpage.cfm
>> Squish this face <<
Pleasing web toy based around a photo of a face.
Yay. You can click. Stuff happens. What else
do you want?
http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/index.html
>> Copyright, B3ta Xmas Lecture <<
And now for the serious bit. Much of web
creativity is fuelled by borrowing
music and images from random sources. This
creates enormous legal problems when
conventional media want to reproduce the stuff.
Creative Commons propose a solution - a new
symbol (CC) which marks work as available for
re-use. Interesting.
http://www.oblomovka.com/images/entries/getcreativ...
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from the 'Home Alone Pets' 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 you to show us what your
pets do when no one is looking
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/pets/
We asked B3ta boarder 'Missing' to judge the
entries.
Missing writes -
#1 "Although I was slightly disturbed by the
number of pets who spend their time
downloading porn, this is great.
(artamnesia)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/565915
#2 "It was the look of 'and what are you going
to do about it?' combined with sheer
contempt on this one. And it's a cat
wearing pants. (Slim)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/559548
#3 "Absolutely fantastic animation on the left
hand rabbit. (Stick_figure)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/582145
>> This Week's Challenge <<
This week, B3ta contributor Thorpe gave us the
suggestion, "cows / horses being devious".
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/devious/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* DEAD SNAKE - it's real. Jason Oswald of
New South Wales, Australia found it whilst
working at the Harvey Norman Computer
Superstore. Where's Steve Irwin when you
need him?
* BINARY CLOCK - it's real too. Hurrah! It
displays the time in binary with 1 being the
bottom digit and 8 being at the top. Geeks eh?
* B3TA PARTY - it was great! Which is why
the newsletter is so late this week. We
all had enormous hangovers and stayed
in bed.
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: STAR IN 2003's FIRST ISSUE
We're taking two weeks off writing the
newsletter and will be back in the New Year.
Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.
Things we'd really like to see include
* The Web hit of 2003. Let's make the new
year rock.
* Many of you will have some time off from
work. Use it productively. Stuff talking
to your family. Get nerding.
* New quiz formats. We're convinced that
there's appetite for 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 & Lucy Reese.
Links supplied by GNF Lou, Fraser Lewry,
James Moore, Stuart Rolland & Haddock.
Image challenge handled by Denise Wilton.
Thanks also to the B3ta DJs Phatmess,
Popjustice, Weebl, Mc Mark McDonald, Braces
Tower and everyone who came to the party.
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