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http://www2.b3ta.com/buffyswear/

...is the pylon blue or gold?

They're normally made of Galvanized Steel so it should be a dull grey but knowing Happytoast off of http://www.b3ta.com/ and twitter @IamHappytoasty it's probably wearing pink frilly underwear :D

Back in 2002 Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) were planning to massively re-brand themselves as Intruducingmonday.com, however, they forgot to register the .co.uk! Big mistake as it was soon registered by Rob Manuel of b3ta.com and USVSTH3M who quickly put a flash video largely consisting of Two Fingered salutes and Donkeys and a song with lyrics like "La la la we've got your name" and "We like donkeys". This quickly went viral resulting in PWC abandoning their re-branding efforts (Not sure if heads rolled or not) and b3ta.com getting thousands of new members.

So yes you can do quite a bit if you manage to purchase an important domain

Also, the Brits have 3chan.

And the Japanese have 2chan.

Also, the Brits have 3chan.

I have a DRM!

:-D

You need to send these people this... http://www2.b3ta.com/top-10-cutest-kittens/

Sorry, I couldn't help myself .....

Hey Hey 16k

"Text On A Picture", and b3ta has been bitching about it and LARTing n00bs over it for years.

http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/

Vertical Video Syndrome: Just say no!

This song sums up the nostalgia so well

The Spectrum was a big part of my youth and early career (I was writing for it into the early 90s).

It was lieutenant Worf, on the Bridge, with the Phaser:

http://b3ta.com/board/10680204

What's really scary is that I got 75% (12/16) on your quiz, but on the sister quiz here, where you try to identify girl and boy cats, I got 14/16 correct. I'm not even sure how I can tell the boy and girl cats apart just by looking at their faces, but apparently I can.

The differences are not as wide or as deep as you would think. Your example of being visible to kids at an early age is simply wrong. Kids are terrible at identifying gender. They look at the most obvious and superficial characteristics. Put a man in a dress and you can confuse kids. Get that hairy chick to stop waxing her upper lip. Heck, just have a guy grow his hair out, and a lot of kids will get confused.

Even adults have a hard time telling the difference. Find out if YOU can tell the difference as easily as you think you can. http://www2.b3ta.com/femaleorshemale/

We also don't need more women in programming. We just need people like you to stop suggesting that we hire based on gender.

http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/85367/1322136043/DailyMailCorrectionsbig.jpg

Or how about those Brits who pronounce beta as beet-uh?

We have the same problem in the UK too. Do not trust the media is the only outcome we'll end up with. This is not good.

I found this one via the B3TA Newsletter. http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue465/

* HOW THE DAILY MAIL WORKS - Long, long blog entry, but interesting and quite damning. To put it bluntly, they make stories up. http://goo.gl/acMZq

"...each home should probably have one, albeit for reasons they couldn't quite pin down"

Hey Hey 16K! - M.J. HIBBETT AND THE VALIDATORS

We bought it to help with your homework
We bought it to help with your homework
And the household accounts
If your dad ever works it all out

Lunchtimes in the library, writing down the pokes and peeks
copying an access code, get a taste for home taping
Fetishists of map-making
Rubber keys and rotten leads, rand and run and load and screens
Then five minutes fingers crossed, hoping not to witness the terror
of R: Tape Loading Error

zx spectrum 81, dragon vic and oric1
commodore 64, amstrad and an acorn electorn
cheaper BBC micro
jet set willy, sabre wulf, lords of midnight, underwurlde
dark star, transam, ant attak
and of course, manic miner
the hobbit and knight lore and elite

It made a generation
who can code
A bubble before proper consoles
who all know
That the games you get today
well, they may be very flash
But they'll never beat the thrill of
getting through Jetpac, Oh!

Hey Hey, 16K,
What does that get you today?
You need more than that for a letter
Old Skool Ram Paks are much better.
x2

Personal Computer Games, Your Sinclair, 16K
Kempston Competition Pro, Crash and Cursor Keys
and GO TO Dixons and bother Saturday staff
with loops that never end...

For n=0 to 2

Those were the days

Next N

Here's your first assignment!

http://www2.b3ta.com/namethatbeard/

I'm reminded of this.

b3ta has a thing about horses. They love horses; best of all the animals, in fact.

Stop linking to websites that link to the actual fucking article: http://www.b3ta.com/links/Lego_printer

Also, this is just a more advanced variation of a project included with the original Lego Mindstorms kit.

P.S.: fucking Flash used for video again. Lame.

Artistic depitiction of event: http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/10643/1247758483/300Titanic.jpg

You may enjoy this
http://www.b3ta.com/board/9860403

A return? Us b3tards never left.

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/ipad/

I think this b3ta entry applies pretty well here :) (not my work, just happened across it) http://www.b3ta.com/board/9956971

And yet no one gives it the credit it deserves. See b3ta for the newsletter it starred in. All hail b3ta (and this b3tan), forever spreading virals without acknowledgement.

I work in IT support for the military, so if you read any further I will have to kill you.

A few years ago I was stationed on a large warship.

Now, you might expect IT security on the shipwide control system to be pretty tight, and indeed the firewalls to prevent external attacks are very secure (you don't really want some geek with a wireless laptop hacking in and controlling the ship lol), but if someone can actually get onto the ship, there are network ports all over which they can plug into and gain access to the whole control path.

One time when the ship pulled in a small vessel which was suspected of smuggling, the shit-for-brains marines failed to search it properly and a handful of ne'erdowells then sneaked aboard, plugged into the network, and proceded to arse around inside it. As well as mucking about with the data on the brig, thay also managed to blow a fuse on the waste control circuits, which meant I had to take a trip out all the way to home base to get a replacement RX35 switch from central stores.

As it turns out this was quite a lucky break, because while I was away this same bunch of chancers blew the whole ship up by firing some proton torpedos down the main reactor exhaust pipe.

Phew!

[Stolen from Here]

You could always make an interesting and realistic Internet Simulator that's supported by advertising.

Not strictly on topic... but Elite is mentioned and I just have to post this as this entire thread reminded me of the following animation;

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/heyhey16k.swf

Awesome... and good old days. Damn... now I'm going to fill the rest of my week of vacation playing Oolite... thanks, Slashdot :P

It was easy when programs were 16k.

What does that get you these days ? You need more than that for a letter.

B3ta had a compo which I believe is relevant to this thread

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/iphone/

My brother photoshopped that concept: http://www.b3ta.com/board/5779869

Run for the hills

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9936/1238707415/missinghome.jpg

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9936/1238707415/missinghome.jpg

This story is clearly fake, but very well written:

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/darwin/post368239

...possible NSFW content...

link: http://www.b3ta.com/links/287816

I've no idea if this is the one that you're thinking about, but it's "something to do with football":

http://www.b3ta.com/links/227296

(and yes, that's b3ta rather than the Eye, but I'm sure the Eye will have covered it).

and in my job as a university lecturer, I grade essays that cite Wikipedia no higher than 2:2.

What? I got a 2:2 - you mean I could have stayed down the pub and nicked it all off Wikipedia (had it been invented at the time)? Kids today....

A user from B3ta pulled this off ages ago. In that instance it was made up facts about a football teams' supporters getting printed in the Daily Mirror.

http://www.b3ta.com/links/Lazy_Journalist - "A small but loyal group of fans are lovingly called "The Zany Ones" - they like to wear hats made from discarded shoes and have a song about a little potato."

It was done by a b3ta user, and can be found here. It is very funny.

It was done by a b3ta user, and can be found here. It is very funny.

Maybe he'll finally meet his soulmate? I heard Davros had moved to Canada as well to get away from Dr. Who. :)

http://b3ta.com/board/8952395

And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

Erm... /. ? Oh, and b3ta

What about Facecook though?

Some blogs that help me get through the day:

b3ta - Full to the brim with lots of inspired/close-to-the-bone/somewhere-through-the-bone humour.
The Daily WTF - Most people will already have this, but for softies like me, its a goldmine of stories that get just a little too familiar for comfort.
Fancyplants' Japan Blog - Japan from a guy who backpacked his way round for three weeks - and had never been abroad before!