NEWSLETTER: "NOTE TO SELF: DEAR WILL SELF. YOU USE LONG WORDS AND YOU'RE VERY TALL"
This Week:
* HASTAG GAMES - Ruined with technology
* SHIPPING FORECAST - Acid House remix
* AI MARVEL CHARACTERS - Your chance to name them
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B3ta email 751 - 21st Aug 2020
Read this issue in Deutsch pretending to be Kraftwerk:
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue751
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK
Other than making unappetising marmalade
* SPY ON LONDON CAM - Jonty Wareing writes, "I
built an ambient display giving you an
almost-live view through the 900 TFL cameras
scattered across London. Put it on in the
background and play some montage music." The
police could gamify something like this, so
you get points for spotting any crimes happen.
Where's Wally for snitches.
http://jonty.co.uk/camjam
* NAME THESE AI MARVEL CHARACTERS - Dr Dunno
has thrown 470 Marvel characters into machine
learning and then asked you to name the
results.
https://twitter.com/namethishero
* RUIN HASHTAG GAMES - Monkeon writes, "Ruin
film-based hashtag challenges by letting an
algorithm do the hard work. I tried linking
it to a thesaurus at one point, but that
didn't work as well as I'd hoped, so I kept it
simple."
https://monkeon.co.uk/moviepungenerator/
* SHIPPING FORECAST THE ACID HOUSE REMIX -
Produced by Ricardo Autobahn who co-wrote Daz
Sampson's Eurovision entry. So that's a bonus.
With visual help from Happy Toast and Dr
Dunno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
* THE LEGEND OF NEIL NORMAN WILKINSON -
elliotmason writes, "Here's a stupid song I
wrote. Animation by Drivel Sieve."
https://www.youtube.com/watch
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If you didn't get the grades you want and
still want to get into the House Of Lords, try
being the first born son of a heredity peer.
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: HOLY SHIT WE SOLD AN ADVERT
Sweary scarf
Hebtro are now selling scarfs with swearing on
them, and they'd love suggestions for new
phrases. Rude and all made in the UK too. Buy
them now before they sell the fuck out.
https://hebtro.co/product/sweary-scarf/
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What people don't realise is that Sting Every
Breath You Take from the position of a dog
watching his owner eat ham.
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Content made by other "people"
* MANIC MINER 3D - not playable some an
interesting art/tech project to reimagine the
game in 3D. Looks like it could be fun -
although probably you'd finish it in 10 mins.
https://blakearts.artstation.com/projects/0nlgw5
* BINTEREST - all UK's bins, now sortable by
colour, if you're bin racist.
https://govbins.uk/
* MAKE YOUTUBE LESS LONLEY - Watch YouTube
videos with under 500 plays... together, then
gong them off when you get bored. We really
enjoyed this time sink, when it was just three
geeks in chat, laughing at unusual choices in
camera angles.
http://wehole.tv
* DOOM CLONE IN 13k OF JAVASCRIPT - now build
Fortnite in 2k of BBC Basic.
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2019/javascri...
* WIKIHOW JOKE - MasterClass content stolen
and republished in the style of wikiHow.
Surprised this cheeky copyright-theft is still
up, though it does sometimes make you want to
watch the whole one, so might actually work as
advertising.
https://masterwiki.how
* YOU ARE BEING WATCHED - see how many
hundreds of shitty ads/trackers sites are
using.
https://adsbydomain.fouanalytics.com
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Humans need to eat rocks (salt) and get regular
sunshine (vitamin d) - else we get health
conditions that can lead to death. We therefore
conclude we're all are sci-fi space lizards
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: FESSHOLE
Your anonymous confessions, fessed up for lols
Each week we ask you to confess stuff and then
stick all your lies in one place. Here's the
best this week:
* PARKLIFE! - "I get up at 5am on weekdays but
unlike other early risers, I don't feel the
need to mention it all the time because I'm
not a cunt who thinks it marks me out as
superior"
* CAT LOSER - "Sometimes I buy a pint of whole
prawns at the seaside and share them with my
cat at home. We have a 'one for me, one for
you' dinner, but often she eats them slower
than me and I have an extra one and feel
guilty."
* LONGWAVE FAN SPEAKS - "I'm too old for raves
these days but I dearly love taking ecstasy.
So now I drop a half and go to evensong in
various cathedrals around the country. I'm an
atheist but the buzz of music and stained
glass light is fucking incredible."
Join the 82,000 shits that have followed this
junk. Link goes to the best of July - so all
toad and no hole.
https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/12932305636425...
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: IMAGE CHALLENGE
Relocate everything to the UK
I'm A Celebrity is relocating to Britain
because of the pandemic. Show us how other TV
shows, landmarks and other famous stuff would
look if they did the same. Relocate everything
to the UK.
https://b3ta.com/challenge/relocatetouk/popular/
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Every time:
1. Save file
2. Look for file so I can send it
3. Go back to application to see where it's
saving things now
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: PATREON THANKS
We love all these people
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Ward, Jace Otting, James Meers, John
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Kant, Victoria Wood, Graham Freeman, Caroline
Kahn, Matt.
EDITORIAL THANKS: Monkeon & Matt Round.
And thank you to newish Patreons Ben Rout, Tim
Clarke, Simon Balch, Clemence Saussez, Derek
Colley. Martin Pritchard, Stephanie Wissinger,
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