ASCII BUSH

No it's not Deep ASCII again - it's the State of the Union address from Bush (jr and sr) in an ASCII stylee.

More ASCII?

via boingboing

Mount St. Helens Webcam

With the news that Mount St Helens may be on the verge of erupting again New Links provides a ring side seat for you to enjoy the fireworks if they happen.

Coming out

Which Simpsons character is coming out? The Scum has the answer.

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Stuff

Farenheit 2004. Starring George Bush and Michael Moore. Needs sound.

The Bug. TiVo for your radio.

One for Hippy Tony...mayhem and chaos hair.

Are Friends Eclectech?. b3ta inspired madness.

Telefunkenphone division. WWII's biggest secret revealed. Needs sound. My best link of the week.

This is broken.

Faux News Channel

Faux News is a parody of Fox News and despite being satire is probably still closer to the truth than Fox is.

via Linkfilter

Blogging multiple pictures in a single post

When we first started using Picasa's free unlimited jpg image hosting we only had one complaint and that was regarding the fact you couldn't post multiple images at once.

We worked around this using the New Links picture dump to dump the images (and our icons) which we then hack about and put in a single post if we want to. Well it seems there is a way to queue images and post them to a single post after all. We'll be expecting a double post from Bungers tomorrow.

via Blogger Forum

SpaceShipOne about to launch

SpaceShipOne is about to launch at 2pm - I think! The BBC site says it is due to go at 1pm GMT. I'm crap at the whole clock going forward/backwards for BST so I'm unsure whether 1pm GMT is 12pm BST or 2pm BST. As no one is reporting it has took off yet I'll plump for 2pm.

UPDATE: The New Scientist says it will actually be at 1447 BST - so in about an hour then.

Morning All

Cool picture Bungholio.
Here is todays pile of...

Bombs Over Denver!. A handbook created in the 50's for the citizens of Denver helping them to prepare for an A-bomb attack.

The Belly Button Lint survey or fluff in your belly button.

For those of you that live in an IKEA house how about solid wood PC peripherals.

GoogleDate lets you enter a date and then searches using Google for what happened on that date and shows three results.

Thanks to coolios.

I apologise for any re-posts.

Be nice day!

Morning all! Here's today's daily pic...

It's from last night, on the Tyne. Maybe I'll start a New Feature™ called "The Shipping News™"... ;)

In the news today...

GameSpy's 25 Most Memorable Games of the Past 5 Years 

Yep, Gamespy is 5 years young today, and they...

...aren't necessarily the BEST (games), just the ones that are nearest and dearest to our heart

Should get a good Mass Debate™ out of that one!

My other campaign today is "International Be Nice to Someone™" day. Tell your nearest and dearest something nice, or do something good for someone today. Me and The Chump are off to visit our buddy in the hospital today. Get well soon Gerg!

Most Accurate Online Translator

This online translator guarantees that

Your original grammar, style, and spelling are left intact!

The service has also recently been extended to add three new languages - French, German & Spanish.

via Waxy

Lego Film Posters

Large collection of film posters in the medium of Lego. Minifigville has lots of other Lego stuff including a Hall Of Fame for Lego people.

More Lego?

Another from SnarkySpot - seems they like Lego too!

Andrew Lipson's Lego Page

ASL's LEGO Page has some cool Technics bits and bobs but the most stunning models on his site are his Escher recreations.

More Lego?

via SnarkySpot

Match reports

Match reports for the West Brom game are up at nufc.com and Black and White and Read All Over. Pick a smaller name for your next blog lads - BAWARAO takes some typing in full! ;)

Sunderland is 3rd in the land!

Third what though? How about third shitest town? They failed to make the top 10 last year but now the public have had a chance to vote and correct this travesty. Sunderland have now been lofted to 3rd worst town in the UK. If only we'd known before the poll - first place would have been theirs.

I'll finish with this quote about Sunderland from the article:

not so much a town as a mortuary

emailed by Mike

Rome: Total War

In what must surely be the gaming best news since this Rome: Total War (PC) gets it's UK release on Friday October 1st. Since I first saw the new engine on Time Commanders it was a must buy for me. I've always been a fan of the Total War series but is the first time they've used true 3D graphics for the battles and it looks gorgeous. Did I mention it's also got Romans in?

It's getting very good reviews (IGN 9.4, Gamespot 9.1), the demo is fantastic and I will officially be disappearing from New Links posting duties from Friday evening and I may be gone for some time! ;)

OMFG!! Final Fantasy VII: Compilation

w00+!! In surely what must be the best news in ages Square are bringing out not one but lots of Final Fantasy VII stuff!


Check out the whole article here--->PlayStation 2: Final Fantasy VII: Compilation

via gamespy

Green Day cash in.

Green Day are cashing in on the P2P market by selling printed blank discs. The site says "Burn responsibly. Download music legally and burn your own Green Day compilations." Hmmmmm.

Thanks to Engadget

Lingerie Dreams

Or a blog about laydees underwear. A little NSFW (LNSFW?) due to the odd visible booby.

It's better than the lingerie section of the Littlewoods catalogue.

Puppy Curling

And another game - and a possible solution to the problem of all the spare foxhounds we'll have in this country soon. You could try Puppy Curling. Slide the puppy along the kitchen floor and into the target. No sign of the sweeping brushes though so it's more like bowls than curling I reckon.

via A Welsh View

Compact Catch!

The Independent have a flash game called Compact Catch! on their site. You have to throw papers through the air to your customers working out angle and power of your throw. Sort of like Yeti Sports crossed with Paperboy.

via Ultimate Insult

Stuff

USB Mini Desktop Aquarium. I quite fancy one of these.

I've booked us 6 tickets for the NewLinks trip into space.

3D Ascii art.

The Strange Mechanism Museum. Strange indeed.

How to do the Great North Run in 4 minutes...

Buy yourself a Honda motorbike, fit a turbocharger, and get yourself into the Smoking Gun's hall of shame!!

New Links does not condone speeding in any shape or form! Don't do it kids!

Top 50 shoot 'em ups!

Im not sure I agree with half of these titles but they have put together a pretty hefty list of old school shooters!
Check it!

Nazi Grandpappy Bush

..or how Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power. So that's two powermad, homicidal despots Prescott Bush is responsible for. Mind I can't see this causing any great anguish amongst Republicans - it didn't harm Arnie's chances of becoming the Gubinator even though he is a Nazi's son.

One for coders

Coders (and printers) know how useful Lorem Ipsum is but it makes for very boring reading when you've seen it for the millionth time during testing.

Now there's an alternative - the Malevole Text Generator asks you for the number of paragraphs of text you require and generates them. So what's different? The source of the text used - it's drawn from song lyrics, cartoons and TV series.

For example the page I am currently working on has three paragraphs of generated text consisting of the Muskehounds, Thundercats and Hong Kong Phooey theme songs. This should make page development slightly more amusing if nothing else! :)

One for Bungers

Transportation Futuristics. This brilliant site even has a hands-free mode of transport for Bungers when he takes his snaps of the Toon on his way to work.
Keep them coming Bungholio.

Another brill performance from my FF team this w/e has got to see me rise from the depths of the NewLinks league. Hopefully.


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Edit:YAY.

Best popup book - evar!

Unfortunately it needs the most stupid looking glasses evar!

Black Magic is a system that takes video of the real world in the direction you are looking then works out if any popup objects are visible. If there are it combines the object with the feed and displays it all on the glasses.

via Waxy

Stuff

Strange deaths archive. Should'nt laugh, really.

Need a banner for your site? Then MediaBuilder 3D Text Maker is for you. There is lots of options to tick then add your text and sit back and watch it be made for you. Save the image then you can use it on your site.

Analyse your dreams with the Dream Dictionary.

Todays weird eBay item a Glow in the dark cheerleader wig.

The sequence of human evolution.

More free music. The soundtrack to Shaft in Africa.

Hyper History Online. Some interesting stuff, if you like that kind of thing.

Free films from the Archive.org including Night Of The Living Dead, Reefer Madness, 3 Stooges in Sing A Song Of Six Pants and many more all free and Legit.

Galleries of The Monkees magazine covers.

wreckedexotics.com. A site devoted to car crash pics and videos.



Thanks to coolios, incomingsignals and catch.

Guffing Gandalf

It's the scene in LotR where the Fellowship is formed - but with added Gandalf guffing goodness (2MB WMV).

It's only a small clip but very funny.

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Fixed Extensions for Firefox 1.0PR

If you're an extension whore like me then this is the link you have been waiting for.
Loads of extensions updated to work in Firefox 1.0PR
w00t!

One for Fiddy

I've seen the pictures that proves Fiddy Dent is 'into' very small horses. He should like the Borg My Little Pony.

via Everlasting Blort

Asshat: the official site

Ever wonder where the word "asshat" originated?

Well wonder no more!

Firefox Download Tweak Extension

Exactly what it says on the tin. This extension soups up the download manager in Firefox a bit but best of all puts it it into a tabbed window if you want rather than in a new window.

via Linkfilter

Hur hur...

One of the girls in our office is up the stick.
Check out this photo of her first scan...


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Stuff

- A collection of faculty with some of the worst names known. The dream team university
- A collection of robots from the silver screen.
- More on the free iPod story.
- One for Mr Toongoals. The Internet Deprivation Study.
- Eighteen years after Chernobyl, Norwegian sheep still glow in the dark.
- One for Hippy Tony. The Men's Long Hair Site.
- What your PC does through the night. This explains why my PC is so bloody slow in the morning.
- Today's eBay link. The super mini iPod.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The BBC have taken Infocom's text adventure version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, added graphics and stuck it online to play. Some scenes are still missing graphics and they are the subject of a competition so get your colouring set out.

If posting is slow today you know why!

via Waxy

Daily Toon Pic

Chiggedy ch-ch-checking out how nice the quayside looks this morning.. :)

Portable Firefox 0.9.3 & 1.0PR USB Drive-Friendly

So you're travelling in a foreign land (Vietnam perhaps) and you want to get on the web. You find a local net cafe and find it's installed browser is IE4 or something else equally ancient and crap. So how are you going to access your Gmail account and surf the web in the style you've become accustomed to?

Just make sure whatever net cafe you go to has PCs with USB and you're sorted. Portable Firefox can be installed onto, and ran completely from, a USB memory stick. So I could even stick this on my XD card for my camera and just plug my camera into a PC to get a decent browser.

Bloody tourist? I prefer to think of it as travelling with savvy! ;)

More Star Wars DVD Changes...

...but to your Xbox this time!

When you play the Extra Features DVD on the Xbox it will update the dashboard without asking your permission.

Naughty Bill. Naughty George. tsk tsk.

via linkfilter

How Chav Are You?

From the soaraway shiSun comes the Chav quiz. When did Fred Perry get to be charver wear? Skinhead yes. 'Skate' rock yes. Chav????

I'm off to burn some shirts.

via Small Values of Cool

Primate Penitentiary? Chimp Chokey? Bonobo Big House?

...or a prison for naughty monkeys.

As monkeys are sacred to Hindus due to them being living representatives of the monkey god Hanuman (the White?) they can't give them a good kicking when they run amok so a monkey jail has been built to keep them off the streets. Apparently the current exchange rate for a banana is 2 phone cards.

via boingboing

Follow Up : Q-bert news

As Merg pointed out earlier in the week Roger Ebert has a new website. Ch-ch-check out his review of :: Sky Captain : The Things of tomorrow (or whatever it's called).

Good things : It looks like FFVII the movie crossed with AI
Bad things : It has serial whinger/cry baby Paltrow in it.

The Da Vinci Code - crock of shite

I finally caught up with the rest of the world and read the Da Vinci code the other day expecting a rollicking good read with lots of historical accuracy. What I got was what I described to Bungers as an average potboiler which despite claims to historical accuracy was very inaccurate in a lot of places. The disturbing thing to me is that Brown's version seems to have become interweb gospel.

Well let this be a lesson to all the believers. It's a fictional story not a history book.

Jamming wit' the Lord!

Mexican churches are using cellphone jammers reports Engadget.

Makes a change from Mexican pirates I suppose.. ;)

Also, chiggedy ch-ch-check out the video of them picking a bike lock hacking a Kryptonite Evolution 2000 U- Lock with a bic pen. Parp!

The Jedi Training Generator

The Jedi training generator generates pearls of pure Jedi wisdom like this one:

Mmm! Powerful, the Force is. Yes! Suffering leads to darkness. A Jedi uses the Force to protect and defend, never to destroy. If you do not have commitment, consume you will the Dark Side. To give into the evil pull of fear is to give your destiny over to the Dark Side. Wrath leads to impatience!

Take these into your heart and mind and you too a Jedi will be. Probably.

via the Flophouse

Bush is full of shit

And we have the pictures to prove it.

Bush to blame for Ebola

..or at least the flesh of Bush.

Bush Foments Unrest In Middle East...

for millennia to come.

Bush Camps In Africa

Hot country, stuff being shot, basic living conditions. Sounds about right.

A mighty ex-bush, yesterday...

A tree that had exploded yesterday. Check out more photos of the splod tree here. It's a series called "WITW did that happen!", or something... :)

The mighty Bush

As Merg pointed out yesterday this place is rapidly turning into Bush Links. Always happy to oblige here's skunk.co.uk which is 'dedicated to the finer aspects of living'.

mmmmm chronic.

Morning All

- A Brief History of the Apocalypse. Just so you know when the world will end.
- Want some free music? Columbia University is willing to let you download some music in return for your completion of some survey information regarding your musical tastes. Or you could just go here.
- One for Merg. rss creator. Don't know if it is any good to you tho.
- One for Hippy Tony. Make your bike sound like a motorbike with turbospoke. Then again, you'll still need a back wheel first. :)
- Another for the Hippy. He was talking about making massive posters with a printer a while back. Then again, you'll need a printer first. :)
- Bush gets confused, again.
- Todays amusing item on eBay. Not so much the item but more the story.

Russ Meyer has went to booby heaven

Booby film maestro Russ Meyer has passed away aged 82. Fingers crossed for a tribute season on C4.