Hello! And welcome to the 123rd EVER newsletter from rathergood!

Number 123 is a very special number for a newsletter, and so today I have something very very special to treat you with. I have a love song for you. A beautiful, beautiful love song. Fallopia loves Chinchap, and Chinchap loves Fallopia! What a wonderful, joyous world we truly live in! I think you'll agree that this is a new high point for human culture. This is about as good as it gets, frankly.

http://www.rathergood.com/chinchap

Isn't that the single best thing you've ever seen? YES! YES IT IS! If you think it's not then frankly you are mistaken.

You should buy a wonderful Chinchap tshirt so that everyone else can have their lives improved as well. You'll be the most attractive human in your vicinity! Here's a link to buy one BUY ONE BUY ONE NOW!

http://bit.ly/chinchaptshirt

Hey you can get the mp3 if you like – it's on our music page here:

http://www.rathergood.com/songs

Under New Songs, unsurprisingly, what with it being new and also a song.

That's about it for this week except to tell you how much I love you! I love you so much! I'd learn from the owls how to make pellets for you! Then I'd swallow dead rats whole, digest their digestible bits, compact the indigestible bones and fur in to pellets in my stomach and vomit them back up in big gory hairy bony lumps! Then I'd take each one and carve a bust of your face from it. I'd do about 15 a day! Then every night I'll break in to your house while you sleep and array the day's Joel-pellet you-busts around your sleeping head, so that when you awake the first thing you see will be my wonderful present that I made for you and it will make you HAPPY!

Mwah mwah big sloppy kisses!

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator
Defeater of Transformers (regardless of voltage)
Founder member of the super-secret League Of Internet Justice
Has eaten chicken madras for breakfast

Helloooooooooo! And welcome to the 122nd EVER newsletter from rathergood!

I've got two AMAZING bits of purest joy for you today! First off, here's a brilliant game! It's called Unnatural Selection, and it involves evolving creatures from worms! There are 16 creatures to discover all in.

http://rathergood.com/unnatural

Also look! Here's a funky kitten!

http://rathergood.com/funky

YEAH! You can get the mp3 of that amazing funk tune here:

http://bit.ly/bugRkr

If you're interested, we got a mention in this French article about kittens and the internet here:

http://bit.ly/dD6lla

I think that's about it for this week, except to tell you that I love you. I love you SO HARD! I'd do anything for you! I'd sit in a damp, dark cellar with a bunch of worms and a carcass, evolving lovely vicious bloodworms and bloodslugs for you! You could keep them as pets! Also I'd make sure you always got enough fish! I'd use science and genes to replace my fingers with lampreys! Squirming, slimy, many-toothed blood-sucking suction-faced lampreys! Then I'd dangle my hands in the water (lake, stream, river, whatever is nearest) and let each of my lamprey fingers suck itself on to a fish and start sucking the life out of it. Once I'd got a handful of lovely fishes, I'd bring my lamprey hands out of the water and giver you the fish for your tea! You'll always have fish! What a wonderful world that will be! I won't be able to pick anything up except fish of course but that will be a small price to pay for your happiness. Also, you should probably steer clear of the lampreys, they are VICIOUS! You don't want those blood-hungry parasitical chompers getting hold of you. Again, though, never being able to touch or even for that matter approach anyone again is a small price to pay for your happiness.

Mwah mwah big sloppy kisses!

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator
Defeater of Transformers (regardless of voltage)
Founder member of the super-secret League Of Internet Justice

Hellooooo! And welcome to the 121st EVER newsletter from rathergood!

I've got something utterly wonderful for you today! I may have diamonds in my poo! Look! Look at the wonderful song!

http://rathergood.com/diamonds

You can download the mp3 from here if you like:

http://bit.ly/cW7QLg

Also, I have decided I want to be in Transformers 3. I've recorded this amazing audition tape for Michael Bay, the Transformers director, and I'm sure that I'll get the part no probs!

http://rathergood.com/transformers

Ooh by the way we've re-released the Rathergood Songs album, with a longer tracklist. Look, it's 35 tracks now!

http://bit.ly/bfWIuH

Spongs In The Key Of Life is still available of course

http://bit.ly/aQPHqH

I think that's about it for today. Except to tell you that I love you. I love you so hard! I'd do anything for you! I'd fight a Transformer for you! They think they're so hard converting voltages to different voltages like they're something special! Well I'll show them who's boss! Decepticons? DeceptiCOCKS more like! HAHAHAA! They're RIGHT IDIOTS with their 240 volts in and their 110 volts out thinking they can subjugate humanity well Megatron you're a MegaTWOT in my book HAHAHA.

Are you listening Michael Bay? This is for you.

MWAH BIG SLOPPY KISSES WITH TONGUES!

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator
Defeater of Transformers (regardless of voltage)

Hellooooo! And welcome to the 120th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

I've got a lovely treat for you today! Look, this is my Finger Thingdicator! I can indicate things with it!

http://www.rathergood.com/thingdicator

Hoorays! Isn't that lovely!

I'm doing my spot on Sky News this evening if you're interested, I'll be on a bit after 7pm UK time talking about the stories on the internet today, and then after that I'll be back on the technology panel talking about tech stuff for a while. Yeah! You can watch it on the telly if you like, or on the internets here:

http://bit.ly/XyoEO

In other news we've agreed to start working on our first iphone game with Neon Play, which is great. I'll let you know when there's more to tell you about that, but you can guarantee it will be the the best iphone game ever EVER EVER EVAAAR.

I guess that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you. I love you so hard I'd create artificial life for you! It looks dead easy to be honest. You just get some chemicals and stuff them in to an ameoba and they turn in to Godzillas and massive acid-secreting blobs of doom and things with pincers in their eyes and slashing jaws in their knees that  leap out from the toilet bowl to lacerate you and then decorate themselves with your leaking entrails and do an Irish jig and make bagpipes out of your lungs and femurs then smash themselves to death against mirrors in confusion and rage.

Any idiot can do THAT. It's so trivial I don't think I can even be bothered, now I think about it. Why would anyone bother doing that? Huh. Meh.

I LOVE YOU OH GOD I LOVE YOU I WANT TO LICK YOUR SWEET SWEET SWEAT

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator

Helloooooooooo! And welcome to the 119th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

Look! It's Science Time!

http://www.rathergood.com/science_time

Wield it! Wield the Power Of Science! Wield it HARD!

You can get the mp3 of The Power Of Science free here:

http://bit.ly/9PQora

My intention is that every school will play The Power Of Science before every science lesson. This will enthuse the world's youth about the power of science. This is the way to ensure our sciencey future! Also, every research lab should start every day with a very loud playing of The Power Of Science. We will have cracked all those elusive sciences in no time with all our sciencists hyped up for some MAJOR SCIENCEING by that song!

Are you a sciencer? Do you science? You should play The Power Of Science loud in your place of science.

Are you a student of science? You should play The Power Of Science as loud as you can in your place of science learning.

Are you a teacher of science? You should blast your students with a major dose of The Power Of Science to get them scienced up TO THE MAX!

The government should be paying us for this stuff, seriously.

If you do turbocharge the science in your school, lab, research facility etc by blasting out The Power Of Science, please do let me know about it. I would love especially to see video of such an activity.

I've put together this amazing SCIENCE tshirt too! If you are a supporter of science, then you really ought to buy one. All your science friends will think you are absolutely the coolest human being in existence. If you don't you are pandering to the scienceless forces of darkness:

http://bit.ly/cajoeA

In other news here's a little clip from the casting for the Crusha ads, so you can get an idea for the process

http://www.rathergood.com/casting

Hey, Zak told me yesterday that he is a superhero, and that his super power is to move cups without touching them! YEAH! The world will be a safer place now! Phew! When I took him his breakfast, though, he complained that it didn't have wheels or an engine. “I want Monster Truck Breakfast” he said. I'm still not sure what exactly Monster Truck Breakfast consists of, but if I work it out I'll let you know.

Hey last night i dreamt that i was at this party thing and I'd had a couple of drinks with my Dad and then realised i was supposed to drive home and it was a real pain and then we were in a plane and there was this MASSIVE super-volcano and it exploded with so much force that it was going to wipe out most of the people on the earth and then I woke up.

I think that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you. I love you really HARD! I love you so hard I'd do anything for you! I'd spend months and years gradually stretching the skin of my scrote with an adjustable framework and some clamps until it was big enough to form a tent, then I'd creep in to your house while you were asleep and set up next to your bed, rigging my skintent just over your sleeping form, to catch the air you breathe out, then I'd lean my face in close to yours so I could breathe in your breath as you breathe it out so that I could be made of molecules that had come from you and we would be effectively the same organism communicating at a quantum level thanks to the entaglement of our atoms, and I'd pull the skintent down at dawn before you wake up and go and hide in your attic where I would secretly live during the day, and if you wake up and see me ever I will scream and scream and scream.

I'd TOTALLY do that for you! I love you THAT MUCH!

Mwah Mwah extrasuperduperhugs and hyperkisses!

Yours sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science