This Week:
* 12 B3ta projects you may have missed
* Yes, 12, like the 12 days of Christmas
* Or the disciples of Jesus
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B3ta email 676- 1 Dec 2017
"Alexa! Read me the best newsletter ever written!"
http://b3ta.com/blog/issue676
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: THIS BREXIT BUS GAME IS AMAZING
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Take back control of the infamous campaign
bus and ride the value of the pound since
the EU referendum.
Our score is 60 second - can you beat us?
https://advisa.se/en/research/brexit-bus/
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: HELLO, IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK
Right you lot, here's a special newsletter,
we haven't done one for six months or so
and we thought we'd pull our fingers out.
This week we're just going to do a quick
round-up of the best creativity from our
community from the last half year.
And thanks to Matt Round of B3ta / UsVsTh3m
(RIP) fame for sorting out the ad for the
Brexit Bus game at the top. (He thought up
the game too, it's very good and just got a
RT from JK Rowling, which was nice.)
Anyway, on with the content. You like
content don't you?
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12 THINGS B3TA PEOPLE HAVE DONE MADE IN 6 MONTHS
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1. TRUMP VS. TALKING HEADS MASHUP -
SwedeMason is the king of videos and has
done this Trump thing that's so good it's
in danger of making us like Trump.
http://b3ta.com/links/Trump_vs_Talking_Heads
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2. PAUL MCCARTNEY MASHUP - Swede also did
this amazing Paul McCartney song which is
both a statement of Swede's artistic intent
and the best track Paul McCartney has been
on since the mid 80s.
http://b3ta.com/links/Paul_McCartney_Rabbit_Hole
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3. DONALD TRUMP PSYCHIC QUIZ - Monkeon has
made this clever quiz which predicts how
many questions you will get correct. The
background to this being that whatever
Trump has said, he's also said something
utterly contrary.
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/psychictrumpquiz/
BTW: Two Trump things?! The dirty secret of
the content industry is Donald is good for
clicks. We're all going to hell in a
fascist handcart because it helps sell ads.
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4. CAN YOU TELL WHETHER A BOOK IS ANY GOOD
FROM ITS COVER ALONE? - Over 10 rounds, you
will be shown two books. One will have a 5
star Amazon rating. Another clever quiz
from Monkeon.
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/judgeabook/
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5. YOKO ONO BOT - your Ginger Fuhrer
largely wastes his time pissing around with
bots. His latest pretends to be Yoko Ono.
Here's 5 sample tweets:
"Imagine there's no tea bags."
"Make a list of your favourite crisp
sandwiches. Post it to someone who feels
sad."
"Look out of the window. Do you see that
cloud shaped like Peter Capaldi? Invite it
to dinner."
"Purchase some black puddings. Leave a black
pudding wherever you go."
"It's trumpet awareness hour. Please be
aware of trumpets for the next 60 minutes."
https://twitter.com/yokoonobot
BTW: Rob did a talk about his bots which you
can watch here. (60min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxj_pwgmWM
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6. ASHENS HAS WRITTEN A BOOk - it's about
bad old computer games it's utterly great
and you should buy it. We have.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1783524138/b3ta-21
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7. CYRIAK HAS DONE MORE OF HIS MADNESS -
This one is about horses. Of courses.
http://b3ta.com/links/I_heard_you_love_horses
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8. CCC HAS LAUNCHED A BEATLES PODCAST -
best known for once pretending to be the
folk superhero 'Monkeyman of Tumbridge
Wells" Chris is interviewing various people
about the Beatles. Debut episode features
Rob Manuel, and coming up is film director
Ben Wheatley. Follow now and you'll get the
first news when the shows are edited and
published.
https://twitter.com/IAmTheEggPod
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9. SOMEONE MADE A HUGE B3TA QUESTION OF THE
WEEK POSTER - Pineapplecharm writes, "This
is a link post A few years ago I posted a
poster of the top 3 posts from each of the
(then) 200 QOTWs posted so far I made this!
There have now been 600 questions, so I've
redone it with just the winning entries
from every question to date. Those who went
to the recent London bash will have seen a
version which, due to question 600 running
on for about 200000 years, only had 599 on
it, but this is now complete. And yes, it
was a fucking ballache. At 42 inches wide
it would be a complete cunt to post out so
just take it to a local printer if you're
insane enough to want a hard copy."
http://www.spinelessclassics.com/b3ta-com-question-of-the-week-1-to-600-furtive-bear-art-318.htm
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10. GOODBYE TO 'TRAPDOOR' DAD - Ornsack's
dad made the kids TV show Trapdoor and
wites, "My dad was animating a bunch of
weird videos right up until a few days
before he passed away. I and a bunch of his
colleagues at Aardman have spent the last
year trying to put them together (All he
had was the animation on green screen and
some lyrics) and we are finally here. First
episode is online, and there's another 11
to go."
http://b3ta.com/links/The_Nipth
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11. ANOTHER B3TAN BOOK - Old b3tan Stephen
Wildish has done a lovely book about
swearing. BUY IT. SUPPORT OLD B3TANS!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1785036416/b3ta-21
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12. AND FINALLY... via spellingmistakescostlives
"I made a giant painting of businesspeople
being sent to Hell but taking the place
over and running it for profit
industrialising the torture process and
making everything much more efficient and
terrible."
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/businesshell
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: RIGHT, HERE'S THE END BIT!
So long people, we'll do another if and
when we can be arsed but in the meantime we
do make sure there's a b3ta image challenge
every week and there's stuff going out on
the social media channels.
This is where we should link to the social
channels but we're idiots and take pervese
delight in shooting ourselves in the foot
so we're not going to.
So, until the next time dear newsletter
reader, until the next time. BYE!
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: STILL BORED?
Watch the best YouTube channel that's ever
existed - if you like watching middle-aged
men fiddle with old technology then
TechMoan is the Holy Grail. Seriously, this
is why we can't be arsed to write
newsletters these days, we spend all our
time watching this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/techmoan
