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Sickipedia

May 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »

Sickipedia logo

Yay. I’ve just launched sickipedia

It exists for the following reasons:

  • Once I thought of the crappy sickipedia / wikipedia pun I couldn’t resist it
  • I closed the QOTW on B3ta and got lots of email going, “please keep it open, we love reading and adding jokes”
  • However, the list has become huge and unmanageable with gazillions of duplicates
  • I’ve never run a public wiki before and I’m interested to see how it goes
  • Assuming the book gets even a small bit of attention, then a lot of people will be emailing me jokes. I’d rather direct them to a website where they can sort it out themselves.
  • I fancied re-drawing the Wikipedia logo with extra cocks
  • I imagine we’re going to get a lot of vandalism, but hopefully it’ll all work out ok in the end. Anyway. Have fun you crazy kids.

    • ‘How to be funny’ – Look mum! I write for the BBC now!

    May 2nd, 2006 3 Comments »

    The Beeb have launched a new comedy website, the idea is to get people creating funny stuff via the interwebs and the best stuff might end up as TV show.

    They very nicely showered me with cash to write some tips.

    King of Chavs TV Titles

    And in other news, the Keith Allen documentary on Michael Carroll was broadcast on Channel 4 the other day. I did the titles, which you can watch here. WARNING: Contains loud swearing.


    Baby Vs Baby UPDATE

    April 27th, 2006 2 Comments »

    A few weeks ago me and the wife launched BabyVsBaby, a site where you can upload your childs photo and the world can rate exactly how cute it is.

    We’ve had over 500 bouncing B3ta babies submitted so far, and about half a million battles fought.

    I’ve noticed a few things and I thought I’d share.

    How to win:

  • Girls are cuter than boys
  • Big eyes help
  • Smiling is a bonus
  • Funny hats are always a winner

    • How to lose:

  • Mucky faces = bad. Looks like they’ve been eating shit
  • Newborns. No one likes them except their mums
  • You’re all racists. Black and Asian babies aren’t doing so well. Although this might be just due to some crappy photos

    • Other facts:

  • Some people have been uploading photos of themselves as kids, which is fine by us. And actually is kind of interesting. “Were you cute as a baby? Find out…”
  • Some people upload their photos all excited and then get very upset when they don’t find it in the top 10 and accuse us of fixing the results
  • But not as upset as the handful of people whose child reached the ‘losingest babies’ list. Sorry!

    • If you haven’t played already, then you’ll want to click BabyVsBaby.