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who don't want people to listen to music that THEY FUCKING PURCHASED or otherwise....
Watch this for six hours straight... don't worry, its free
http://www2.b3ta.com/mind-control/

When come back, bring pie! We love http://b3ta.com/

Ones I use all the time:

http://ebay.co.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://b3ta.com/
http://slashdot.org/ :)

No. Once you've seen it, you'll never forget tubgirl.

Speaking of which, someone cuted it up nicely on B3ta recently...
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4332139

If you've never seen it, this gives you a chance to get the idea without burning the full horror of it into your brain forever.

if linux can compete with microsoft, why can't we have "lisney" compete with disney?

Movies from big name studios use all-rights-reserved plots and characters. How will independent cinema compete with the name recognition of Spider-Man?

Movies from big name studios use all-rights-reserved songs in the soundtracks. Independent cinema producers can't use original songs because there simply are no original songs left.

and then distribution and advertising is a no-brainer: all web

Broadband penetration in the United States is pitiful.

Sony's bundling Spiderman 2 with the PSP to combat the exact kind of thinking you're presenting in your post - which is to say, that the PSP is a gaming machine.

But won't Spider-Man make you gay?

Ok, this is just begging to be posted:

Hey Hey 16k

Awesome-est animation about nostalgia games ever.

For those that remember when coding meant peeks, pokes, and games were worth playing, look at Hey, Hey, 16k (Flash 7 needed, but it's well worth it!

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

One good troll deserves another!

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You've been reading too much b3ta?

"Why go to the doctor when you can get it online?"

Even better: Dalek creator Davros and Stephen Hawking together in Electric Dreams

You'd be surprised at what old Steve gets up to

Well, the article doesn't present a compelling case or even a decent point, so as to not let this thread go to waste, I suggest you head over to see the hey hey 16k song/animation by the b3ta crew. It's the best tribute to old gaming nostalgia I've ever seen.

Well, the article doesn't present a compelling case or even a decent point, so as to not let this thread go to waste, I suggest you head over to see the hey hey 16k song/animation by the b3ta crew. It's the best tribute to old gaming nostalgia I've ever seen.

In order to understand what causes nerdism, we must first look to the nerds themselves. The most obvious observation one could make is that nerds are statistically nearly always male. While nerds routinely come in a splendid variety of shapes and sizes and hues, it is rare to see a nerd of the fairer sex. Since we know that nerdism is the fascination with tools and systems, and we know that nerds are predominantly male, we would likely gain insight in asking ourselves why females are not so driven to tinker.

There is no basic mental difference between men and women, and so there is no reason to believe that women would be mentally any less tinker-inclined than men. Therefore, in order to determine the reason why there are so few female nerds, we must turn our attentions to the ways in which men and women are known to differ: the physical ways. Immediately, the answer becomes plain. Women do not need to glut their tendencies by tinkering with computers or cars or guns because of their reproductive systems, which require a great deal more attention and maintenance than those of their male counterparts. Simply put, women tinker with their parts, and so have no interest in tinkering with electronic substitutes.

Penises and testicles, despite their initial lustre, grow boring early on. They do not exhibit quirky, moody, fixable behavior. Rather, they hang loosely and idly in a man's crotch and rarely get more attention than any other body part, and at those times that they do, tinkering is not foremost on the subject's mind. Particularly in the case of an circumsized penis, very little extra maintenance is ever needed. Contrast this, then, to the vagina, which must be carefully wiped after every use, and regularly cleaned to preserve womanly freshness. Females learn early in life that the vagina must be treated with respect, and in return they have the incomparable, primal joy of upkeep.

Women may contentedly seek non-nerdy sources of entertainment, safe in their knowledge that every month will bring them more new and exciting vaginal adventures. While some men profess to be unnerved or even disgusted by menstruation, their true feelings are probably closer to envy. Women, lucky women, may peruse those exotic aisles at the supermarket in search of feminine hygiene products, products that they need, they absolutely need, in order to keep their systems fully operational. Men never know the intimate thrill of personally dealing with menstruation by applying a tampon just in the nick of time, or the sense of deep personal satisfaction that comes with regularly eating yogurt and so having a

Hey, leave off Davros. He wasn't that nasty. Even Stephen Hawking likes him.

Atlantic Monthly They regularly link to past stories in order to give better historical reference to current news items. I think the earliest story they have that mentions Saddam Hussein is from the late 1950's.

Harpers Yet another independantly owned journal that's not afraid to piss off thier advertisers.

The New Yorker Not independant, but has a long tradition of actually checking their facts. Great comics (understated, yet twisted, humor).

I also read my hometown newspaper every day, plus the New York Times on Sundays, and I scan BBC News, Google News, and The Guardian world news online daily. Plastic is good for getting an idea of what (somewhat educated) people think of the goings on in the world, and B3TA is a somewhat effective cure fore too much awareness of world events.

I also get The National Security Archive newsletter in my email about once a week or so.

For tech, I mostly read Linux Journal, SysAdmin, and occasionally Doctor Dobbs Journal.

Of course I always read The Debian Weekly News and /..

Personally, I blame Spider-man's dancing.

~jeff

Hey, Hey, 16K!

Some of my friends' parents are dead set against them ever owning a video game console, and yet they own state of the art computers.

After all, most parents buy PCs to help with the homework.

Brownie points to the first person who can download a pirated copy, and photoshop in Fonz jumping a shark in the background.

Hmm - sounds like a b3ta challenge to me...

Klingon Wedding

So, you think *you're* a geek? How about those guys?

I was wrong! Apparently there is a Queen Klingon to continue the species!!!

Say it ain't so!

She somehow promoted Photoshopping though.

"I need to get laid"
it's not too late

I can't remember where I saw this mentioned (Fark maybe?), but here's some frightening pictures of a Klingon Wedding. *shudder*

It's the tradition of your forefathers, boy. Don't sweep it under the rug.

Dammit, they said "What happens at Vega stays at Vega!"

motorbikes make you gay!

"Morph" was a clay-mation character who appeared on UK kids tv from 1978 onwards. He was animated by Aardman Animations (who later went on to make "Wallace and Gromit" and "Chicken Run") and appeared on shows with Tony Hart (recently interviewed by b3ta)

If you like this sort of thing, check out b3ta which is dedicated to the art.

from the Yahoo article, was Monkey Man of Tumbridge Wells. He was an elaborate spoof created by ccc of b3ta. There were no sightings of him, all the sightings were fabricated by ccc himself and sent into local newspapers. It was quite big news over here in the UK. I had the pleasure of speaking to the Monkey Man on the radio when he revealed himself, and he's a damn nice bloke

For indepth monkey-truth, click here!

from the Yahoo article, was Monkey Man of Tumbridge Wells. He was an elaborate spoof created by ccc of b3ta. There were no sightings of him, all the sightings were fabricated by ccc himself and sent into local newspapers. It was quite big news over here in the UK. I had the pleasure of speaking to the Monkey Man on the radio when he revealed himself, and he's a damn nice bloke

For indepth monkey-truth, click here!

Erm - sorry, but I believe that link refers to the infamous Monkey Man of Tunbridge Wells.

Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?

No, it's a prank from B3ta. :-)

I rennted a house and it was full of catbirds. So I got some B3TA disinfectant and killed them all. Then sued the landlord.

I suppose it is for the best, when such fun can be had with things like this!

You should see some of the stuff they post here, then! All sort of wierd creatures, amongst other things.

annoying bass fish?

You can't spell.

May I suggest you check out his other work?

Let's see if they can make the fish sing like this...

(It's a Flash movie, and due to its content, I recommend headphones.)

So true. In fact, this says it all, really.

Warning: the above link is not suitable for work, religious parents or the easily offended.

> I'm not gay.

No, no way,
But I dance around in a gay, gay way,
I'm not gay,
I'm not gay,
But watching me dance will make you gay!

Pendersempai has made you gay!

due credit

What the hell would I want to watch on TV?

Nothing at all. I was just wondering if your parents censor that because of stuff like Baywatch and the Sopranos? And how about books? Presumably almost all of the great 20th century fiction would be impermissable because there are 'impolite' words in almost all of them.

While I was writing this stuff, I thought I'd pop in to my daughter's room, because she was laughing her ass off, so I wanted to see what she was checking out.

She'd just discovered the movie section at b3ta.com. I guess this is the sort of thing that strict parents must object to, but really, these are exactly the same sort of jokes and humour that kids tell each other verbally and you've got no chance at all of protecting them from that -- nor would you want to, unless you were deliberately trying to raise some antisocial supergeek. The only difference here is that the communication is mediated by computers.

What about South Park? Would your parents have kittens if they thought that you were watching South Park? Would they assume that Satan had captured your soul and pack you off to one of those concentration camps for troubled teens?

What the hell would I want to watch on TV?

Nothing at all. I was just wondering if your parents censor that because of stuff like Baywatch and the Sopranos? And how about books? Presumably almost all of the great 20th century fiction would be impermissable because there are 'impolite' words in almost all of them.

While I was writing this stuff, I thought I'd pop in to my daughter's room, because she was laughing her ass off, so I wanted to see what she was checking out.

She'd just discovered the movie section at b3ta.com. I guess this is the sort of thing that strict parents must object to, but really, these are exactly the same sort of jokes and humour that kids tell each other verbally and you've got no chance at all of protecting them from that -- nor would you want to, unless you were deliberately trying to raise some antisocial supergeek. The only difference here is that the communication is mediated by computers.

What about South Park? Would your parents have kittens if they thought that you were watching South Park? Would they assume that Satan had captured your soul and pack you off to one of those concentration camps for troubled teens?

Thanks to a B-52, this penguin can fly. (middle page, 3 pix)

And for no real reason, here is a picture of tux on the can reading one of the dummies books, that I found while googling.

Hawking vs Davros?

vs isn't quite the right word....

b3ta has the answer...