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This Week:
* AI-BASED NEGGING - How old do you look on video chat?
* NOVELTY TUNES - Randomised like INT(RND*38)
* SHEDS - Yes, sheds, sorry about that

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B3ta electro-e:mail 744 - 24th Apr 2020

Cough this issue on Zoom to your gran:
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue744

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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK
  Other than self-isolating with Teletext

  >> Random novelty records <<
  Monkeon has built a tool to resurface terrible
  old novelty records on YouTube. He writes "The
  thinking is that most stuff on YouTube flies
  below their recommendation algorithm, and so
  by linking their search to the discogs
  database of novelty records, it would turn up
  curios with 10 plays (turns out it also finds
  plenty of horrific stuff by Jim Davidson)."
  We're just happy that it threw up Golf Girl by
  Neil. TUNE!
https://monkeon.co.uk/stupidjukebox/


  >> What's Your Webcam Age? <<
  Matt Round writes, "Let the fancy neural
  network judge how old you look in video chats.
  Don't blame me if you don't like the results,
  I didn't train the monster, I merely cloned it
  and set it loose!" We like this, as we found
  by pulling different faces we could get it to
  tell us we look 19 years younger.  
https://vole.wtf/webcam-age/


  >> Which Shed Is the Best Shed Out of All the Sheds? <<
  Unclewilco writes, "We've been running
  #shedoftheyear now since 2007 and you b3tans
  have supported us even when we went corporate
  a few years back and got a TV show. Now that
  phase of shedism is over, don't worry we're
  still celebrating sheds as much as we did. So
  here is a Vote to decide the best shed out of
  all the winners we have had the last 12-odd
  years."
https://www.shedblog.co.uk/2020/04/04/the-ultimate... 

  >> The Clouds Aweigh children's book<<
  Dr Dunno (AKA children's author Chris Drew
  Barker) writes, "I've finished the fourth
  episode in the saga that was only supposed to
  have one episode. My son enjoyed it." The
  Earth is literally falling to pieces and a
  small group of children are the only ones who
  can save it. Perhaps you'd like to buy it for
  the 8-12 year-old in your life? We like the
  strong 1970s kids' drama vibe from the front
  covers BTW.
https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B086Y7R9CM

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What note did Fish from Marillion leave for the
delivery driver to inform him that he's not
self-isolating?

In commune, Ocado.

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: FESSHOLE
  Your anonymous confessions, confessed
  
  Each week we collate your howls into the abyss
  into content.

  Our faves include:

  * PANTS - "When I was a young boy I was
  playing in the back garden with my cousin when
  he noticed a pair of my mother's pants on the
  washing line. He dared me to put them in my
  mouth so I did. I still remember looking to
  the kitchen window to see my dad slowly
  shaking his head."

  * PORN - "As a teenage Pulp fan I was so angry
  when Robson & Jerome stopped Common People
  getting to number 1 that I posted their fan
  club extreme hardcore porn - full-on scat,
  cocks nailed to chairs, bestial orgies. I
  attached a cover letter signed as my grandma,
  who got a police caution."

  * SCUFF MARKS - "In 6th form, a friend
  identified increasing scuff marks on the
  ceiling of my car as from legs akimbo. Despite
  never having a girlfriend I quickly gained a
  reputation in the school as a dark horse who
  was having regular automotive hanky panky. I
  was a virgin. It was my mum's car."

  Join the 73,000 people (yes really!) who've
  followed this bollocks on Twitter dot cunts. 
https://twitter.com/fesshole

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: SITES IN BRIEF
  Stuff made my people who aren't us

  * WORK OUT WITH WEB FONDA - Want to exercise
  at home but too lazy to figure out a routine?
  Let random songs and random workout
  suggestions be the answer. Made us laugh but
  we reckon we'd break a leg trying to switch
  exercise every 20 seconds. 
https://random.training

  * BEATSPLIT - Turn any MP3 into a drum pad.
  You'll need an MP3 handy and remember to type
  in the BPM else it gets confused. 
https://beatsplit.glitch.me

  * CAT PIMPING TAKEN TOO LITERALLY - liven up
  your Zoom office meetings by booking visits
  from cats and rabbits for cash. Yep, this is a
  bit too much like sex work for fluffy animals
  for us to be entirely comfortable with it.
http://cuddlecall.me

  * WHO WANTS TO BE A TWILLIONAIRE? If you've
  been watching Quiz on ITV then you've been
  enjoying being reminded of the Coughing Major
  - so why not see if you'd have won the million
  with his questions?
https://twitter.com/_superted/status/1250054117432...

  * BAD DESIGN ON PURPOSE - An enjoyable design
  contest: how bad a logo can you design for a
  marketing company? The accidental Coronavirus
  one made us laugh.
https://howlowcanyourlogo.com

  * GOLDEN ARM LADY - maybe this is actually
  good or deliberately funny, but given how
  Quibi is randomly chucking money at stuff we
  doubt it.
https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/125027319181...

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What will you do when the lockdown is over? Oh,
you know, the usual: stay at home and look at
the internet.

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: IMAGE CHALLENGE
  B3ta Tussauds

  Here's the best images from last week:

  * BEAKER FROM THE MUPPETS - fine work from
  gub~gub.
http://b3ta.com/board/11311509

  * ZIPPY FROM RAINBOW - also fine work from
  monkeon.
http://b3ta.com/board/11311636

  * NOSEYBONK FROM JIGSAW - more fine work from
  monkeon.
http://b3ta.com/board/11311792

  * See all the other images from the 'B3ta
  Tussauds' challenge:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/b3tatussauds/popular

  >> This week: Cartoon Art <<
  Pick a favourite cartoon character, a
  favourite work of art and mix them together.
  What could be simpler? It's a cartoons in art
  challenge. Good challenge actually, over 100
  entries and strangers have even mentioned they
  like it.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/cartoonart/popular

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Celebs. The only lockdown content we want is sex
tapes.

Either they're sexy or they're horrific. It's a
win either way. 

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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
  Make "content" and make us... content
  
  * THIS DATING PROFILE DOESN'T EXIST - generate
  AI people and then generate Tinder text for
  them: "Don't bother replying unless you're an
  8/10" etc.

  * MEMORABLE CREDITS - This is a great thread.
  We wish someone would trace them all down and
  take screen grabs for a picture blog.
https://twitter.com/disappointment/status/12503237...

  * TREK QUIZ - The true joy of watching Star
  Trek TNG on Netflix is guessing how many of
  the ending orchestra stabs will play after you
  press "skip intro". Make it so, as Luke
  Skywalker famously says.

  Send us your stuff:
https://b3ta.com/mailus

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Twitter: Boomers should die
Also Twitter: We didn't mean those Boomers

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: PATREON THANKS 
  We love all these people

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  MCCREADIE* *MR PHIL DONNELLY* *SHOWRAT* *SIMON
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  Saunders, George Preston, James O'Malley,
  Martin Davies, Mike Middleton, Bex Cook,
  Hannah Chubb, Ben Ward, James Pearson, Shane
  McHugh, Stevey Garland, Ciarn R, Craig
  Liddell, Helen Gaskell, Christopher Orr, Will
  Moody, Nick Morgan, Ben Brice, David Green,
  Justin Brett, Louise Allen, Robin, Gavin
  Tommey, Stuart Richards, Tobie Fysh, Pete,
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  Jan Spielhoff, Mike Congreve, Sean Flanagan,
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  Alastair Dodd, Alexandre Strube, Andrew
  Robinson, Andy Candler, Connor Parslow, Craig
  Naples, Daniel Moeller, Duncan STrickland,
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  Michael Kitt, Nicky Hewgill, Paul Topping,
  peter royal, Richard Speed, Sentient Meatbag,
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  Shirling, Ben Chapman, ben cowell-thomas, Ben
  Groom, Ben Sugden, Cat Conner, Centuries of
  Sound, Claire Allen, Claire Zolkwer, Darren
  John Harris, Dave The Hammer Parry, David
  Bond, David Ellinor, Daz Wright, Emily Payne,
  Emma Nicol, FuzzyFreaks, Gary Sharp, Gwyn
  Fisher, Hugh Noble, Iain M Barker, Ilya
  olak-Anti, Jennifer Moquin, Jim Lucking, John
  M, Jon Bounds, Lee Ball, Louis E, Lyra Jay,
  Marc Lindberg, mark madgwick, Matt Carr,
  Michael Bryan, Mr Flibble, Neil Ives, Nick,
  Nigel Ford, Oli, Paul Bayfield, Paul Slade,
  Peter Wood, Phil Barns, Rachel Tougas, Richard
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  Robert Simpson, Rohan, Sam Brown, Seirian
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  McAuley, Stewart C. Russell, Stphane,
  Swedemason, Ted Bowyer, Thepfy, Tim Polglase,
  Tom Clark, Tony East, wigglywigglyworm, Adam
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  EDITORIAL THANKS: Monkeon & Matt Round & David
  Stevenson.

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