NEWSLETTER: "WHAT'S GOT TWO THUMBS AND OPENS NEWSLETTERS?"
"WHAT'S GOT TWO THUMBS AND OPENS NEWSLETTERS?"
This Week:
* "WEBSITE" - HappyToast launches site
* LO-FI SCI-FI - introducing 'Starship Impossible'
* MOVING PICTURES - Yes, the technology now exists
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B3ta email 772 - 28 May 2021
Read this issue if you like, who the fuck cares?
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue772
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: HEBTRO SPONSORSHIP
Yes, buy lovely woolly socks
Do you own feet at the end of your legs? Well
Hebtroco have a product called "socks" that
work as kind of innertubes for your shoes so
that you don't have to throw away your shoes
every day. Buy some now, they're toasty and
warm and will save you a fortune.
https://hebtro.co/product-category/sock_range/
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE MADE THIS WEEK
Other than sculpting toe-jam again
* NEW HAPPY TOAST SITE - Matt Round has been
working with HappyToast to revamp his site.
It's all great but we'd direct you to the
animation section for some old school b3tan
action:
https://happytoast.co.uk/animation/
* MOVING PICTURES - "I made these pictures
move" writes drivelsieve, "from the news" -
if you like photos from the news, moving in
amusing ways, by golly are you in luck.
https://b3ta.com/links/I_made_these_pictures_move_...
* THE LO-FI SCI-FI OF STARSHIP IMPOSSIBLE -
The Brothers McLeod write "Greg and I have
made some more silly animations - this time a
lo-fi sci-fi, made in collaboration with
Misfit. It's half an hour, but in 12 parts,
and it's over on YouTube." This is a great
style, going lo-fi in the age where it's easy
to make shiny shit really makes it stand out.
https://b3ta.com/links/Starship_Impossible_Lo_fi_S...
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: FESSHOLE
Your confessions, relentlessly processed into content
* TWITCH - "My 12 year old son recently
started to stream on twitch. After weeks of
zero interactions he was ecstatic to announce
that he had not only a viewer but a follower
also. I've never seen a happier human being. I
am that follower. He can never know."
* SCOTLAND - "We live in a remote cottage in
Scotland. Whenever a vehicle comes down the
drive, I narrow my eyes and imagine turning to
my wife and saying: 'Take the children inside'
because my gangland enemies have found us and
are coming to take their revenge. It's usually
just the postman."
* DUMPED - "I once finished with a girl by
text because I couldn`t be arsed to drive the
half hour there & the half hour back. Didn't
matter because she turned up at mine & punched
me in the face anyway."
Why not join the 138,000 people who should
know better? Link goes to the best of April so
it's worth a click even though we regret
selecting so many going "take my wife" ones
coz we didn't read it back properly.
https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/13972209463276...
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff made by other people in the content mines
* IS THIS THE COOLEST MAN IN THE UK? - house
wall collapse narrowly misses pedestrian and
he just keeps walking. Filmed via someone's
doorbell because we live in the future and
it's shit.
https://b3ta.com/links/House_wall_collapse_narrowl...
* MUSIC TO WORK TO - A relaxing mix of soviet
synth pop. Okay, so it's basically just a
playlist with a URL, but like designing the
sleeve of a mix-tape, personalising a site
makes it more special than a boring Spotify
link.
https://newsovietwave.com
* STUNNING 256 BYTE C64 DEMO - proving once
and for all that the best 8-bit computer was
the Oric 1.
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
* ONE DIMENSIONAL CHESS - After hearing all
the Q idiots bang on about Trump playing 3D
Chess, this person thought they'd see how 1D
Chess plays out. For your printer or Steam,
depending how old you are.
https://gumroad.com/l/1DChess
* DOOM CAPTCHA - we all hate having to find
the traffic lights every time Google thinks
we're a robot - but come into this better
future where we can play Doom instead.
https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/
* GRUMBLE BLOG - This is some impressive
grudge holding. The writer has been doing a
sarcastic geekier-than-you round up of the
stories on Hacker News since 2016 (in Comic
Sans, obviously). It actually makes for quite
a useful overview of what's going on over
there.
http://n-gate.com
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: IMAGE CHALLENGE
Make Britain Great Again
The devastating impact of nul points at
Eurovision has hammered home just how much the
world hates the UK. Show us what it would take
to make the world like the British Isles.
Crack open Photoshop and Make Britain Great
Again.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/makebritaingreatagain/po...
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: FOLLOW UP
What happened next on previous story, singular
* GO DOTTY READY TO SHIP - Old b3tan Breel
writes, "Go Dotty -- fully funded and now in
production, order today to get your copy
before Christmas." Well done, and well done to
the b3tans who helped crowdfund this a couple
of years back.
https://www.godottygame.com/shop/
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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
Three / free ideas for you to jizz into reality
* LEAVE A SHIT ON THE BOSS'S DESK AUGMENTED
REALITY - well we've explained it in the caps,
just go build it.
* A MAKE YOU FEEL OLD MACHINE - Miles Hunt of
the Wonder Stuff is now the same age as Arthur
in the first series of Minder.
* GINJA - rewrite all board games so that the
losers get very drunk. Or high. We dunno.
Hungry Trippos.
Go on, make some stuff, you lazy fucking
fuckwits:
https://b3ta.com/mailus/
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: PATREON THANKS
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EDITORIAL THANKS: Monkeon & Matt Round
additional links; HappyToast for image
challenge help; and Dr Dunno for something or
other. Proofing by Kat E.
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