Monday, May 31, 2004
May Icon Compo
posted by mmChronic @ 10:59:00 PM
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It's time to pick the winner of the May icon compo and this time we are going to do it using a more scientific(!?) method than last time which seemed to be whoever posted first in the month won. I've just signed up to BraveNet as they do polls with added image goodness. With any luck you should see the results in the sidebar.
I was going to put the poll directly in the post but Blogger doesn't seem to allow Javascript in main posts anymore. Shizzle.
EDIT: It seems that even though it complains about the Javascript in the post it still allows it. Yay!
This poll is now closed - results here.
I was going to put the poll directly in the post but Blogger doesn't seem to allow Javascript in main posts anymore. Shizzle.
EDIT: It seems that even though it complains about the Javascript in the post it still allows it. Yay!
This poll is now closed - results here.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004
Where in the world is Merg? part IV
Come Together
posted by mmChronic @ 9:52:00 PM
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Here's a flash anim of the Beatle's "Come Together". You can even put it on karaoke mode by clicking on it. It's fittingly quite surreal with lots of morphing objects, flashing backgrounds and other graphical effects. It's almost like a demo. Maybe that's because it is by Melon Dezign. If you didn't own an Amiga you may not have heard of this crew but they did some lovely little intros.
It seems they even do web design now and their design site has some more nice flash anims including a very good version of "I Feel Fine"
via linkfilter
It seems they even do web design now and their design site has some more nice flash anims including a very good version of "I Feel Fine"
via linkfilter
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Google Image Search: megane
posted by mmChronic @ 6:51:00 PM
So you fancy buying one of those Renault Megane's and decide to do a GIS for a picture of one. That'll be the new Hentai edition you're after then? NSFW
via NTK
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So you fancy buying one of those Renault Megane's and decide to do a GIS for a picture of one. That'll be the new Hentai edition you're after then? NSFW
via NTK
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17 uses for a dead cicada
OWWWW!
Floridian: Jesus is your . . . what?
Old, improved feature...
posted by mmChronic @ 5:45:00 PM
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The new comment count code has been rewritten once again. I said I'd fixed it for Mozilla and I had. Sort of. I've been using Firefox more and more and noticed that when there had been a lot of comments to read ones I'd already read would appear unread after I read few more.
It turns out this is due to a limit to the number cookies you can dump on a machine from 1 address. IE suffered the same thing but it seemed to have a much higher number of cookies allowed so it took longer to see the effect of it. I thought this might have been a problem when I first wrote the new comment code so I had a half idea how I was going to do it anyway.
So I've dumped Bill Dortch's cookie library and got hold of Stephen Chapman's cookie library from Felgall. This one has built in array handling so I'm storing all the comment counts in one array which gets stored in 1 cookie. I also now set the cookie when you enter the page the comments are on. Previously it was in the 'onclick' property of the link to the page. This meant it was only set when you clicked the link from the main or archive pages. If you came in through the 'Previous Posts' link or from a search then the cookie wasn't being set. That's sorted now so new comment counts should reflect whatever you have read regardless of how you got there.
The next problem I can see is when the cookie gets too large and you can't write any more info to it. I think it has a 4Kb limit. That's plenty of comment counts though so we shouldn't hit that too fast. I know how I am going to do it but I'll worry about that if/when we hit the limit.
Right I know most of you fell asleep 3 paragraphs ago but this bit is important. If the new comment count isn't working delete your cookies for this site - you may have reached your limit and the new fangled one can't be created. It may also be that you are caching an old version of the page without the new code (this happened quite a bit during debugging) so you may want to try the New Links patented Anti Green Screen Key™
It turns out this is due to a limit to the number cookies you can dump on a machine from 1 address. IE suffered the same thing but it seemed to have a much higher number of cookies allowed so it took longer to see the effect of it. I thought this might have been a problem when I first wrote the new comment code so I had a half idea how I was going to do it anyway.
So I've dumped Bill Dortch's cookie library and got hold of Stephen Chapman's cookie library from Felgall. This one has built in array handling so I'm storing all the comment counts in one array which gets stored in 1 cookie. I also now set the cookie when you enter the page the comments are on. Previously it was in the 'onclick' property of the link to the page. This meant it was only set when you clicked the link from the main or archive pages. If you came in through the 'Previous Posts' link or from a search then the cookie wasn't being set. That's sorted now so new comment counts should reflect whatever you have read regardless of how you got there.
The next problem I can see is when the cookie gets too large and you can't write any more info to it. I think it has a 4Kb limit. That's plenty of comment counts though so we shouldn't hit that too fast. I know how I am going to do it but I'll worry about that if/when we hit the limit.
Right I know most of you fell asleep 3 paragraphs ago but this bit is important. If the new comment count isn't working delete your cookies for this site - you may have reached your limit and the new fangled one can't be created. It may also be that you are caching an old version of the page without the new code (this happened quite a bit during debugging) so you may want to try the New Links patented Anti Green Screen Key™
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Saturday, May 29, 2004
10000 Games
posted by mmChronic @ 9:51:00 PM
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We have been getting loads of hits for this page through people searching Google for the aforementioned 10000 games. After I'd posted this link ILuvNufc pointed out it was a massively expensive paysite where they wanted you dialup a UK premium phone number at a cost of £1.50 per minute. Ignoring the fact that most of us here aren't using modems and a lot of our visitors are from overseas anyway, it's a bit on the expensive side when there are so many free flash games to be found on the net. Where? Here are a few free game sites we've featured:
And to finish off with one last blast at 10000Games. I've just been for a look at their site to ensure I got the pricing right (sorry if that's being anal dogs!) and the latest game added at the time of writing was one called Skater Boy. I happened to notice the character in the thumbnail looked like one of the characters in Ed, Edd and Eddie which is a cartoon my daughter watches on Cartoon Network. So I went to their site and funnily enough they have a skateboard game called "To the Ed-streme" featuring the same graphics. So we have a choice of
Cartoon Network's version
10000Games' version
- LucasFan Games (not Flash but still free)
- The Flash Games.com
- Nothing To Do?
- 2 Flash Games (they've got more than 2!)
- Dizzy: The Collection
And to finish off with one last blast at 10000Games. I've just been for a look at their site to ensure I got the pricing right (sorry if that's being anal dogs!) and the latest game added at the time of writing was one called Skater Boy. I happened to notice the character in the thumbnail looked like one of the characters in Ed, Edd and Eddie which is a cartoon my daughter watches on Cartoon Network. So I went to their site and funnily enough they have a skateboard game called "To the Ed-streme" featuring the same graphics. So we have a choice of
- Cartoon Network have licenced their game for use to 10000Games knowing it is an incredibly expensive service which is probably out of the financial reach of Cartoon Network's target demographic. Not only that they have even allowed them to change the name of the game.
- 10000Games have ripped off Cartoon Network.
Cartoon Network's version
10000Games' version
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Guide to Springfield USA
posted by mmChronic @ 5:53:00 PM
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Although the location of Springfield is still a mystery, an accurate map of the town itself exists. The Guide to Springfield USA has a very detailed map of all the locations you could think of. They've done this by mapping the relative locations of buildings etc as seen during episodes of The Simpsons and have ended up with a map in 9 large sections. I'm still trying to find the Simpsons' house.
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Osama Bin Lotto
posted by mmChronic @ 1:42:00 PM
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...or "Saturdays are shite with no football #1"
This site is a bit like the October Surprise site we featured a while back. The premise of that one is that Bush will pull some surprise move in October which will jack up his popularity allowing himself to swindle the election for a second time. The reader is invited to predict what the event will be.
The Osama Bin Lotto site has decided the event is the capture of Bin Laden. The unknown factor which the reader has to decide on is when will the capture be announced. Note that is the date of the announcement and not the capture itself.
via Hal's Stoopid Links
This site is a bit like the October Surprise site we featured a while back. The premise of that one is that Bush will pull some surprise move in October which will jack up his popularity allowing himself to swindle the election for a second time. The reader is invited to predict what the event will be.
The Osama Bin Lotto site has decided the event is the capture of Bin Laden. The unknown factor which the reader has to decide on is when will the capture be announced. Note that is the date of the announcement and not the capture itself.
via Hal's Stoopid Links
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Foreign Fingers
posted by mmChronic @ 11:42:00 AM
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We've had international swearing before featuring a Welsh swear page and a truly global swearpage. We've even had the mother-of-all swearword collections. But we haven't had a guide to international obscene hand gestures. That's that sorted then.
The page features the English V sign including a lovely picture of the Thatchbitch telling her adoring masses to piss off. It's a bit fuzzy on the history of the sign though. I always thought it was first used after the battle of Agincourt. This was supposedly due to the practice of the French cutting off the draw fingers of any English longbowmen they captured which then made it a little difficult to use a longbow. The English archers "gave the Vs" en-masse to the advancing French just to let them know they were ready for action.
Remember kids - swearing is big and it is clever. It's part of your history. Yay!
via The Flophouse
The page features the English V sign including a lovely picture of the Thatchbitch telling her adoring masses to piss off. It's a bit fuzzy on the history of the sign though. I always thought it was first used after the battle of Agincourt. This was supposedly due to the practice of the French cutting off the draw fingers of any English longbowmen they captured which then made it a little difficult to use a longbow. The English archers "gave the Vs" en-masse to the advancing French just to let them know they were ready for action.
Remember kids - swearing is big and it is clever. It's part of your history. Yay!
via The Flophouse
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Toon site
posted by mmChronic @ 10:15:00 AM
Here's a toon fan site - Serwis Newcastle United from Poland. It's full of transfer gossip like this interesting(?) snippet:
Of more interest to the non Polish speakers here may be the goal videos and image gallery.
Minor quibble here. They also have a Legends page, or Legendy as we cosmopolitan European Unionists might say, which has some real toon legends. And Barry Venison. Now don't get me wrong I liked Bad Back Bazzer a lot but he's not really a legend is he? Or did I miss something? He's just not in the same League as God, Wor Jackie, KK, Pedro, Shack, Wyn the Leap, Gazza, Sausage Packer and quite a few more. Maybe he got extra points for his lovely hair and waistcoats? ;)
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Here's a toon fan site - Serwis Newcastle United from Poland. It's full of transfer gossip like this interesting(?) snippet:?rodkowy obro?ca Bordeaux Marco Caneira znalaz? si? w orbicie zainteresowa? dzia?aczy Newcastle.Woo? Yay? Probably? New Links will of course provide translation on request via the multilingual ILuvNufc who has picked up a smattering of Polish during his exhaustive trawls of Eastern European sites whilst looking for Blink 182 bootlegs.
Of more interest to the non Polish speakers here may be the goal videos and image gallery.
Minor quibble here. They also have a Legends page, or Legendy as we cosmopolitan European Unionists might say, which has some real toon legends. And Barry Venison. Now don't get me wrong I liked Bad Back Bazzer a lot but he's not really a legend is he? Or did I miss something? He's just not in the same League as God, Wor Jackie, KK, Pedro, Shack, Wyn the Leap, Gazza, Sausage Packer and quite a few more. Maybe he got extra points for his lovely hair and waistcoats? ;)
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BitTorrent To Release Michael Moore's New Film Free of Charge - PARP!
posted by mmChronic @ 8:42:00 AM
Denounce Newswire are reporting that Mikey is going to ensure his latest film, Fahrenheit 911, gets to the widest possible audience by releasing it via the BitTorrent network.
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Denounce Newswire are reporting that Mikey is going to ensure his latest film, Fahrenheit 911, gets to the widest possible audience by releasing it via the BitTorrent network."This film deserves the widest possible distribution," said Moore, whose film won the Palme D'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend. "I had hoped I could achieve that with Miramax and Disney, but such was not to be the case. I'm thrilled to announce that I have an even better solution. BitTorrent!"Except he didn't. The actual piece referenced is a spoof, as is every article they post as they are a satire site, but so many people have been linking and reporting it as real they have had to put a big, red disclaimer at the top of this one.
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Friday, May 28, 2004
So how come we have computators ?
posted by mmChronic @ 4:55:00 PM
...or even sewper-dewper-compewters if you are from sundlind. Because Alan Turing published 'On Computational Numbers' on this day in 1936. This paper described, amongst other things, the Turing Machine which is a way of defining an algorithm or procedure and this is still widely used in computing.
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...or even sewper-dewper-compewters if you are from sundlind. Because Alan Turing published 'On Computational Numbers' on this day in 1936. This paper described, amongst other things, the Turing Machine which is a way of defining an algorithm or procedure and this is still widely used in computing.
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A geek site
posted by Dogs @ 4:44:00 PM
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Kuro5hin.org is a geek site with plenty of waffle - just like dear old NewLinks.
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The end is nigh...
posted by Dogs @ 2:07:00 PM
for poor quality movie tie-in games as Warner announce they will penalise publishers whose games average review scores of 70% or less. But why can't we penalise Warner for cr4p films?
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for poor quality movie tie-in games as Warner announce they will penalise publishers whose games average review scores of 70% or less. But why can't we penalise Warner for cr4p films?
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Google announces GMail
posted by Dogs @ 1:47:00 PM
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And apparently the Californian Senate (is that Arnie?) is about to limit its powers. This is why.
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Welcome to Planet Pixar
posted by mmChronic @ 1:35:00 PM
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Interesting article on Pixar and how they have managed to out-Disney Disney. Along the way they've produced 5 excellent films, won 17 Oscars and have 42 patents including one for Z Buffering which I didn't know they had invented.
Pixar has come a long way from those Luxo anims I watched on the Amiga all those years ago.
link via Merg (emailed)
Pixar has come a long way from those Luxo anims I watched on the Amiga all those years ago.
link via Merg (emailed)
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Bungers' Hottie of the Day!
posted by bungers @ 12:48:00 PM
Anyone see the Metro paper yesterday? If not, then you missed a great 5318008 opportunity to check out Katherine Jenkins who is, apparantly, an opera singer (bit of a crap picture on the link, but you'll get the idea)! Don't know anything about that but she's got a nice set of lungs on her, and she looks a bit like Carmen Electra! Bloody h3ll! ;)
I'm off to practice "La Triviata" or something..
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Anyone see the Metro paper yesterday? If not, then you missed a great 5318008 opportunity to check out Katherine Jenkins who is, apparantly, an opera singer (bit of a crap picture on the link, but you'll get the idea)! Don't know anything about that but she's got a nice set of lungs on her, and she looks a bit like Carmen Electra! Bloody h3ll! ;) I'm off to practice "La Triviata" or something..
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The Arab Mind...
posted by Dogs @ 11:49:00 AM
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is "probably the single most popular and widely read book on the Arabs in the US military". This article thinks "It's best use is as a doorstop". This book is full of sweeping generalisations and so, to use one myself, I think it explains a lot about the behaviour of US soldiers.
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Friday Quiz
posted by mmChronic @ 11:45:00 AM
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We'll have none of your low brow, multiple choice, Excel based quizzes here. Solve the quizzes linked to on this site and you could be rich, unravel the secrets of ancient civilisations or even catch a serial killer.
The quizzes are actually unsolved ciphers which are listed at Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers.
via Presurfer.
The quizzes are actually unsolved ciphers which are listed at Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers.
via Presurfer.
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Ooooh not shiny
posted by Dogs @ 11:35:00 AM
Or at least that's the claim of the automatic ironing robot. No singes or shiny patches apparently.
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Or at least that's the claim of the automatic ironing robot. No singes or shiny patches apparently.
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Rebel cleric faces prison for life
posted by Dogs @ 10:43:00 AM
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What I want to know is how this self proclaimed holy man can live in this country for years whilst unashamedly preaching western hatred but British "intelligence" have failed to bring charges against him. And then the yanks suddenly extradite him on 11 terrorism charges. Apparently the new US-UK extradition treaty removes safeguards whereby the US had to provide evidence against suspects. Hmmm...not sure I'm happy with that.
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Arrrrgghhh!
posted by bungers @ 10:25:00 AM
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The "men with breasts" post has moved - please click on the link to view it.
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Geek Diy
posted by mmChronic @ 9:30:00 AM
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Build stuff with the help Geek DIY. It has links to instructions for building all sorts of cool things including an Enigma machine,CD changer or a pirate radio station. It even has something for the bariatric - a geek gym.
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Semi-Automatic LiveJournal Updater
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 9:25:00 AM
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Fancy running you're own Blog but can't be bothered?
Try this.
Try this.
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Bariatric Watch #56788448
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:54:00 AM
Overweight Woman Claims Cabbie Denied Her Service
He was probably doing her a favour as she could do with walking some of it off her, although he did'nt have to say "I can't ride you. You too big for my cab. You'll pop the doors off of my cab"
Probably
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Overweight Woman Claims Cabbie Denied Her Service
He was probably doing her a favour as she could do with walking some of it off her, although he did'nt have to say "I can't ride you. You too big for my cab. You'll pop the doors off of my cab"
Probably
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Promised a Toyota...
posted by Dogs @ 4:07:00 PM
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Old but funny story of some twonk trying to sue on the grounds of her own stupidity.
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Bariatric Benefits!
posted by bungers @ 3:09:00 PM
In the interests of fair reporting, it seems that I have discovered a positive benefit associated with the condition!
650kg humans are bulletproof!!
I'm off to test the theory. Here, fatty fatty!
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In the interests of fair reporting, it seems that I have discovered a positive benefit associated with the condition! 650kg humans are bulletproof!!
I'm off to test the theory. Here, fatty fatty!
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Vaseline man mugshot
Bungers' Great Build a Cyborg project part 263782
posted by bungers @ 2:32:00 PM
No need for ID cards! Clubbers in Spain are getting chips implanted under their skin so that they don't have to carry their VIP cards. So far only 9 people have signed up, but this is because you can't sign people up when they're under any sort of influence. It's a bit late, but it's relevent to that other thread. ;)
And they've got some jive on there now about the hideous face transplant stuff. Eurgh!
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No need for ID cards! Clubbers in Spain are getting chips implanted under their skin so that they don't have to carry their VIP cards. So far only 9 people have signed up, but this is because you can't sign people up when they're under any sort of influence. It's a bit late, but it's relevent to that other thread. ;)And they've got some jive on there now about the hideous face transplant stuff. Eurgh!
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Duct Tape Wall Tapings
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 2:26:00 PM
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This site comes with a warning not to try this at home.
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Is this the Pie in question?
posted by Dogs @ 2:26:00 PM
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Apparently this pie is the pie that everyone should fear. A duck tongue, maggot, fish sauce and pig stomach pie. Lots of gross links on this page.
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Dogs is moonlighting!
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 2:16:00 PM
Artist Ebon Lupus's artistic speciallity is painting pictures of dogs d3f3c@t1ng, ur1n@+1ng, l1ck1ng their @nus or br33d1ng.
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Artist Ebon Lupus's artistic speciallity is painting pictures of dogs d3f3c@t1ng, ur1n@+1ng, l1ck1ng their @nus or br33d1ng.
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Justin Carriage Works - Romany Vardo - Gypsy Wagon - Private Treaty
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 2:06:00 PM
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Do you admire the free, uncomplicated lifestyle gypsies have, wandering from place to place in their wagons without a care? Well now YOU can act out your fantasy by having your VERY OWN gypsy wagon made for you! Just think of it: travelling care-free, camping out, laying under the full moon and stars at night by the fire... the nomad life can be YOURS with a gypsy wagon.
Justin Carriage Works - Romany Vardo - Gypsy Wagon - Private Treaty
Justin Carriage Works - Romany Vardo - Gypsy Wagon - Private Treaty
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Child Abuse?
posted by mmChronic @ 1:53:00 PM
Apparently not putting sunblock on a 12 year old boy is child abuse and may lead to an 18 month jail sentence for his dad.
So presumably people who are allowing this should receive the life sentences for being an accessory to murder.
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Apparently not putting sunblock on a 12 year old boy is child abuse and may lead to an 18 month jail sentence for his dad.
So presumably people who are allowing this should receive the life sentences for being an accessory to murder.
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If Your Husband Has a Porsche, Follow Him
posted by bungers @ 12:59:00 PM
A Hamburg-based opinion poll suggests thatIf Your HusbandLifePartner Has a Porsche, Follow Him!
Ah... but they also get the most sex. If anyone wants me, I'll be the one looking good in the 3-series...
I thought I'd "gay it all up a bit" with that LifePartner stuff... seeing as we've gone a bit gay in here today! ;)
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A Hamburg-based opinion poll suggests thatIf Your Porsche drivers were the least faithful, with 49 percent admitting infidelity, followed by BMW drivers at 46 percent.So if I was on a date with a BMW driver then I'd be inclined to watch them.
Ah... but they also get the most sex. If anyone wants me, I'll be the one looking good in the 3-series...
I thought I'd "gay it all up a bit" with that LifePartner stuff... seeing as we've gone a bit gay in here today! ;)
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Now that's what I call protesting
posted by mmChronic @ 12:29:00 PM
The Axis of Eve has been set up to expose and depose the lying chimpmeister. Basically it's a coalition of laydees who have designed some anti-Bush underwear and are flogging it. Oh and a gallery of people who've bought them and submitted pictures of themselves erm... 'protesting'.
Bungers will be taking names for an Axis of Eve themed protest march through Newcastle like this one in Washington DC.
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The Axis of Eve has been set up to expose and depose the lying chimpmeister. Basically it's a coalition of laydees who have designed some anti-Bush underwear and are flogging it. Oh and a gallery of people who've bought them and submitted pictures of themselves erm... 'protesting'.
Bungers will be taking names for an Axis of Eve themed protest march through Newcastle like this one in Washington DC.
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How gay are you?
posted by bungers @ 11:12:00 AM
Questionable sexuality this morning? Sky One have a "How Gay are you?" test. I appear to be either slightly over gay, or slightly under gay depending on one question I think. (It's the one about the leather trousers... I'm sure I'd look good in them!)
Take the test now!
I'm off to wrestle a bison with my (EDIT) bare hands or something... And then build a fire. And make some spears.
Thanks to Chucky for that one... ;)
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Questionable sexuality this morning? Sky One have a "How Gay are you?" test. I appear to be either slightly over gay, or slightly under gay depending on one question I think. (It's the one about the leather trousers... I'm sure I'd look good in them!)Take the test now!
I'm off to wrestle a bison with my (EDIT) bare hands or something... And then build a fire. And make some spears.
Thanks to Chucky for that one... ;)
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Bariatric watch: how food firms target children
posted by Dogs @ 10:42:00 AM
Iraq is old news. Everyone is far more concerned about their bariatric tendencies. After all our kids can't go to war if they are all too fat or dead and therefore our MPs are demanding annual fat tests for our kids. Why a test? Are the parents so oblivious that they can't actually see that their kids are fat? Test result: Your kid is fat. Parent: Oh!!! That explains why the crisps keep disappearing.
Here's an article which explains how the Kellogg's Winders advertising campaign was aimed at children and was up for an "effectiveness award" at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising for its ability to fool parents. At the same time it was also the winner of the 2002 Tooth Rot awards. From the same article here's a series of case studies that analyse the food intake of several families/individuals from various backgrounds.
The Tullbergs
The McRaes
The Braithwaites
The Bowers
Sabeena Uttam
Joan Harris
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Iraq is old news. Everyone is far more concerned about their bariatric tendencies. After all our kids can't go to war if they are all too fat or dead and therefore our MPs are demanding annual fat tests for our kids. Why a test? Are the parents so oblivious that they can't actually see that their kids are fat? Test result: Your kid is fat. Parent: Oh!!! That explains why the crisps keep disappearing.Here's an article which explains how the Kellogg's Winders advertising campaign was aimed at children and was up for an "effectiveness award" at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising for its ability to fool parents. At the same time it was also the winner of the 2002 Tooth Rot awards. From the same article here's a series of case studies that analyse the food intake of several families/individuals from various backgrounds.
The Tullbergs
The McRaes
The Braithwaites
The Bowers
Sabeena Uttam
Joan Harris
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GTA causes bomb scare
posted by mmChronic @ 8:27:00 AM
Someone playing GTA whilst on the 'phone to work managed to cause a bomb scare when he shouted at a friend
via Will's Thrills
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Someone playing GTA whilst on the 'phone to work managed to cause a bomb scare when he shouted at a friend"There's a bomb in the building. There's a bomb in the building. Everyone needs to get out!"The 27 year old man is still locked up as he can't raise the $5,003 bail.
via Will's Thrills
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Fear the pie
posted by mmChronic @ 10:44:00 PM
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) have kicked off their annual campaign to raise awareness of heart disease with some brilliant posters. Heart Week 2004 takes place 5th - 13th June so please give up your pies for a week at least. You know it makes sense.
The only one excused from giving up the pies is Sumo who laughs in the face of pie fear.
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The British Heart Foundation (BHF) have kicked off their annual campaign to raise awareness of heart disease with some brilliant posters. Heart Week 2004 takes place 5th - 13th June so please give up your pies for a week at least. You know it makes sense.
The only one excused from giving up the pies is Sumo who laughs in the face of pie fear.
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Bariatric Watch #32456724
posted by bungers @ 4:03:00 PM
'Too little done to cut obesity' apparantly. Hey, there's only so much one website can do! I've tried to tell them to stop eating, and they just don't listen the fat fuskers!
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'Too little done to cut obesity' apparantly. Hey, there's only so much one website can do! I've tried to tell them to stop eating, and they just don't listen the fat fuskers!
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w00t!
Michael Moore interview
posted by mmChronic @ 2:58:00 PM
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The Guardian/Observer has an interesting interview with Mikey about Fahrenheit 911 and various other things. I have to say he comes across as a bit of an arse.
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Knacker Factor
posted by mmChronic @ 2:58:00 PM
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Knacker Factor is a viral marketing site for ProPlus. So why would we be interested? Because it has a sleep quality quiz and when you fill it in you get a graph telling you how tired you are through the day. Which is probably way more scientific than my method of counting how many times I fall asleep in any given hour!
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Abba To Zappa
posted by mmChronic @ 2:57:00 PM
Abba To Zappa is a timed music quiz with cartoony graphics. As an added bonus has quotes like 'I pity the fool' when you get one wrong.
Of course the real reason you should be visiting this site is to win an iPod. Yay!
via the Flophouse
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Abba To Zappa is a timed music quiz with cartoony graphics. As an added bonus has quotes like 'I pity the fool' when you get one wrong.
Of course the real reason you should be visiting this site is to win an iPod. Yay!
via the Flophouse
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Where in the world is Merg..? part III
posted by bungers @ 11:43:00 AM
He's painting the town red. and pink. and black.
At least he's not "Paintin' the Town Brown"..! (Obscure Ween reference for Chopper. ;)
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He's painting the town red. and pink. and black.
At least he's not "Paintin' the Town Brown"..! (Obscure Ween reference for Chopper. ;)
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Llap-Goch
posted by mmChronic @ 8:27:00 AM
It seems the Welsh have a secret martial art called Llap-Goch which sounds like they should have no problem subduing troublesome sheep or even uppity English men.
via Presurfer
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It seems the Welsh have a secret martial art called Llap-Goch which sounds like they should have no problem subduing troublesome sheep or even uppity English men.It also sounds ideal as an excercise for the bariatric amongst us as it guarantees a loss of 40lb in the 1st workout plus you can grow a foot taller which means you have more body to spread your 'flesh' around.
"Only a FOUR-SECOND WORK-OUT Each Day! and you will be ready to HARM people"
via Presurfer
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BlogShares
posted by mmChronic @ 8:15:00 AM
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This is an old one but I looked at it for the first time last night. BlogShares - Fantasy Blog Share Market is like CelebDaq except you trade on Blogs rather than celebrities. There is loads more information available than there is/was with CelebDaq. In fact it's like the Championship Manager of share dealing games as it has everything you could possibly want to know about your share deals etc.
You get B$500 to start off with and, if you claim your blog, you get 1000 of the 5000 shares in that. Each link in/out of a blog has a value with links to/from popular sites worth more than those from sites with 1 reader. I piled my virtual cash into the Bellavista Juventud site we featured yesterday. At the time I invested it only showed our link to it and I knew the link from SpaceHardware would show up soon plus any others that had been made thus increasing it's value. I hope that doesn't count as insider trading! I should probably read the rules... one day. Oh well if I get caught I can always pull a Saunders.
You get B$500 to start off with and, if you claim your blog, you get 1000 of the 5000 shares in that. Each link in/out of a blog has a value with links to/from popular sites worth more than those from sites with 1 reader. I piled my virtual cash into the Bellavista Juventud site we featured yesterday. At the time I invested it only showed our link to it and I knew the link from SpaceHardware would show up soon plus any others that had been made thus increasing it's value. I hope that doesn't count as insider trading! I should probably read the rules... one day. Oh well if I get caught I can always pull a Saunders.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Museum of Spam
posted by mmChronic @ 7:44:00 PM
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Whilst reading Stephen Newton's blog, which we've mentioned here before, I saw a link to a new project of his - The Museum of Spam.
It's a neat idea. Using the email to Blogger feature Stephen is publishing all the spam he receives at the address for that blog. This is then published in all it's nasty HTML glory.
One thought does spring to mind. It could be easily hijacked by unscrupulous bloggers trying to boost their linkbacks. All they'd have to do is email stuff containing their URL, this would then be indexed as a linkback by Technorati, Blogpulse, BlogDex, Google etc etc. I'm off to run a mass mailer. Bwahahaha!
It's a neat idea. Using the email to Blogger feature Stephen is publishing all the spam he receives at the address for that blog. This is then published in all it's nasty HTML glory.
All e-mails to stephennewton.mofs@blogger.com are posted here uncensored. Anyone is free to pass judgement on them... or whatever.Repeating the email address here can only help boost the crap he gets.
One thought does spring to mind. It could be easily hijacked by unscrupulous bloggers trying to boost their linkbacks. All they'd have to do is email stuff containing their URL, this would then be indexed as a linkback by Technorati, Blogpulse, BlogDex, Google etc etc. I'm off to run a mass mailer. Bwahahaha!
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Scary Duck
posted by mmChronic @ 6:29:00 PM
Scary Duck, while apparently neither scary nor a duck, is funny.
Anyone that threatens the wellbeing of that lying toerag has to be worth a read. I only wish I found it sooner - today is Bring Your Otter To Work day. What a missed opportunity. Never mind - it's tigers next Tuesday.
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Scary Duck, while apparently neither scary nor a duck, is funny.Extract from Scaryduck Junior's school report:
"My literacy target for this year: Write stories not featuring penguins or fish."
Feh, I say. Feh. What do they know? Did Jeffrey Archer die in vain?*
*No, but give me a couple of weeks.
Anyone that threatens the wellbeing of that lying toerag has to be worth a read. I only wish I found it sooner - today is Bring Your Otter To Work day. What a missed opportunity. Never mind - it's tigers next Tuesday.
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Hilton Watch
Which Transformer are you?
posted by Dogs @ 2:20:00 PM
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I am...
You Are Ratchet!
You are caring and compassionate.
Which Transformer Are You?
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You Are Ratchet!
You are caring and compassionate.
Which Transformer Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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Happy Birthday Star Wars
posted by mmChronic @ 1:50:00 PM
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Star Wars opened this day in 1977. Which might have been a good thing if it wasn't for the fact that it made George Lucas really rich and made him think he could interfere with the production of a film until he turned it shite. Jar Jar Binks anyone? Ewoks? They were GL's inventions.
Apparently the new one is in danger of being spoilt too. Some people think George Lucas must die - I think that's a bit strong. I would say 'George! No!' and merely give him a slap. Probably.
Apparently the new one is in danger of being spoilt too. Some people think George Lucas must die - I think that's a bit strong. I would say 'George! No!' and merely give him a slap. Probably.
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I would appear to be...
posted by bungers @ 1:43:00 PM
You are Ravage!
You are a powderkeg waiting to blow. Perhaps you should try anger management classes.
Which Transformer Are You?
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You are Ravage!
You are a powderkeg waiting to blow. Perhaps you should try anger management classes.
Which Transformer Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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Then I must be...
posted by mmChronic @ 1:39:00 PM
Brawn
You are strong and tough and proud of it.
Which Transformer Are You?
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Brawn
You are strong and tough and proud of it.
Which Transformer Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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Which Transformer are you?
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 1:05:00 PM
You are Soundwave!
You are a family oriented person and would make a
good parent.
Which Transformer Are You?
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You are Soundwave!
You are a family oriented person and would make a
good parent.
Which Transformer Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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When you say God, does that include...
dinosaur trumps...
posted by bungers @ 11:01:00 AM
Dinosaurs and a pig (needs sound).
More Dinosaur Action™ via Boing Boing and Slashdot, pointing to a ChannelNewsAsia story discussing a 'dinosaur' sighting in webcam pictures of a remote New Zealand volcano.
The latest live webcam picture shows the offending creature, with Geonet spokesperson John Callan saying: "Some wag has glued a [toy] pink dinosaur in front of our digital camera". Parp!
Also via Slashdot, Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released
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Dinosaurs and a pig (needs sound). More Dinosaur Action™ via Boing Boing and Slashdot, pointing to a ChannelNewsAsia story discussing a 'dinosaur' sighting in webcam pictures of a remote New Zealand volcano.
The latest live webcam picture shows the offending creature, with Geonet spokesperson John Callan saying: "Some wag has glued a [toy] pink dinosaur in front of our digital camera". Parp!
Also via Slashdot, Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released
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Kingdom of Northumbria
posted by mmChronic @ 10:44:00 AM
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And to give our readers a sense of historical perspective try this article on the Kingdom of Northumbria from the North East History site. If you have a read of that you will see the extent of this once mighty kingdom.
We want self determination - fsck this Regional Assembly idea though. Reinstate Northumbria!
We want self determination - fsck this Regional Assembly idea though. Reinstate Northumbria!
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The great plan
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 10:23:00 AM
With our plan to reclaim Northumbria well under way some of us who are not from the Newcastle area could use this. It also may be helpful for our US readers. :)
How about a reclaim Northumbria icon?
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With our plan to reclaim Northumbria well under way some of us who are not from the Newcastle area could use this. It also may be helpful for our US readers. :)
How about a reclaim Northumbria icon?
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New Links
posted by mmChronic @ 10:19:00 AM
New icons for usage. That's 3 (Dibnah, Mr T & Science) from Bungers and 1 (toon) from Merg. Have I missed any?
I've also changed the search box to use Feedster. This searches the feeds for a site rather than the site itself which has 2 major advantages over Google:
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New icons for usage. That's 3 (Dibnah, Mr T & Science) from Bungers and 1 (toon) from Merg. Have I missed any?
I've also changed the search box to use Feedster. This searches the feeds for a site rather than the site itself which has 2 major advantages over Google:
- Results always point at post (either the new permalink style or the old) and not just to an archive page.
- Our posts seem get into the Feedster search database quicker than they did with Google.
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Arrrgggh! Tron Man gets a chick!
posted by bungers @ 10:11:00 AM
Here's one for Fiddy, to go with his Tron Man from last week!
It's VORTEX - THE DEMON or something!
via DailyLinx
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Here's one for Fiddy, to go with his Tron Man from last week! It's VORTEX - THE DEMON or something!
via DailyLinx
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Bellavista Juventud
posted by mmChronic @ 9:03:00 AM
Yet more footie - who said it was the close season? This time it's not in Burundi but in Peru & Newcastle.
Bellavista Juventud was set up in Iquitos and is run by a pit yakker priest called Father Joe Plumb. Finances are tight so the Bellavista Social Club has been set up to help provide funds for strips & equipment. This club is based in Newcastle and can count the best Peruvian footballer (evar) amongst it's members. They had their inaugural night out in the Egypt Cottage which is just around the corner from here. We could have went to that for our second night out!
BykerSink, over at Space Hardware, has something to do with the blog so expect Billy Brag lyrics with added pan pipes. Or Something.
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Yet more footie - who said it was the close season? This time it's not in Burundi but in Peru & Newcastle.
Bellavista Juventud was set up in Iquitos and is run by a pit yakker priest called Father Joe Plumb. Finances are tight so the Bellavista Social Club has been set up to help provide funds for strips & equipment. This club is based in Newcastle and can count the best Peruvian footballer (evar) amongst it's members. They had their inaugural night out in the Egypt Cottage which is just around the corner from here. We could have went to that for our second night out!
BykerSink, over at Space Hardware, has something to do with the blog so expect Billy Brag lyrics with added pan pipes. Or Something.
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Old plastic bags turn into a football
posted by mmChronic @ 8:26:00 AM
We've all heard the story of how Pele couldn't afford a football when he was younger so he played with a tennis ball which helped to nurture his fantastic skills. These lads in Burundi can't even afford a tennis ball - so they have to go to the local rubbish tip for plastic bags with which they make themselves a football. So if playing with a tennis ball turns you in Edson Arantes do Nascimento then these kids should be very skilful.
via Bifurcated Rivets.
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We've all heard the story of how Pele couldn't afford a football when he was younger so he played with a tennis ball which helped to nurture his fantastic skills. These lads in Burundi can't even afford a tennis ball - so they have to go to the local rubbish tip for plastic bags with which they make themselves a football. So if playing with a tennis ball turns you in Edson Arantes do Nascimento then these kids should be very skilful.
via Bifurcated Rivets.
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Monday, May 24, 2004
Where in the world is Merg? pt II
posted by mmChronic @ 7:54:00 PM
He's checking out pirate ships for the New Links crew. Yar!
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He's checking out pirate ships for the New Links crew. Yar!
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One for Merg
posted by mmChronic @ 6:08:00 PM
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If you log in to the Blogger dashboard you will find the GMail invite is back. So you should be able to:
And in other news that Merg may be interested in - I've fixed the Javascript so it works in Mozilla now. It did work before I added the new template but when I put the code into the new template I just assumed it would work. Silly me. I fixed it at the weekend with the help of Firefox's cool Javascript console so you should now have a new comment count, clickable date links to Wikipedia and the icon changing code for cut & paste icon goodness.
I think that's worth a picture of Times Square! ;)
- Sign up and get your GMail address + 2 invites
- Go to GMailSwap
- Profit
And in other news that Merg may be interested in - I've fixed the Javascript so it works in Mozilla now. It did work before I added the new template but when I put the code into the new template I just assumed it would work. Silly me. I fixed it at the weekend with the help of Firefox's cool Javascript console so you should now have a new comment count, clickable date links to Wikipedia and the icon changing code for cut & paste icon goodness.
I think that's worth a picture of Times Square! ;)
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Obscure 5318008 link...
posted by bungers @ 6:01:00 PM
Piper confirmed to play Dr. Who's sidekick. I saw her in Canterbury Tales. The little Minx.
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Piper confirmed to play Dr. Who's sidekick. I saw her in Canterbury Tales. The little Minx.
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Young men 'failing to check for cancer'
posted by mmChronic @ 4:48:00 PM
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Apparently we aren't checking our 'nads enough to prevent testicular cancer. Well I don't know who's scores have been combined with mine for averaging but they must never check as I check as often as I possibly can. At least that's what I normally tell the police anyway.
Interesting factette buried away in that article. It seems men are at increasing risk of breast cancer. I suspect this is just a sneaky way we men use to get male cancer research spending increased. I don't know numbers off the top of my head (so I could be talking complete rubbish here) but I remember reading that many more men die of testicular cancer than women die of breast cancer yet breast cancer treatment funding is significantly higher than that of testicular cancer. I blame these wimmin's groups. New Links says 'Equal opportunities for bollocks'!
This place is turning into the fscking Lancet. I'm off to find some 8008135.
Interesting factette buried away in that article. It seems men are at increasing risk of breast cancer. I suspect this is just a sneaky way we men use to get male cancer research spending increased. I don't know numbers off the top of my head (so I could be talking complete rubbish here) but I remember reading that many more men die of testicular cancer than women die of breast cancer yet breast cancer treatment funding is significantly higher than that of testicular cancer. I blame these wimmin's groups. New Links says 'Equal opportunities for bollocks'!
This place is turning into the fscking Lancet. I'm off to find some 8008135.
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More quality linkage!
Follow up : Are you an ugly A$$ fish..?
posted by bungers @ 4:29:00 PM
Actually, you may be in for a solution. New Scientist reports that it's risky and some say it shouldn't be done, but that isn't stopping a team of US surgeons preparing to carry out the world's first face transplant. More news as and when I can find it. Insert gag about face being rejected, because you're so ugly.
I think this one has the legs to run and run... just remember, you heard about it first at New Links!
Note to mmC : I think we need the science icon promoted to the sidebar... I'm gonna run out of bandwidth soon!
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Actually, you may be in for a solution. New Scientist reports that it's risky and some say it shouldn't be done, but that isn't stopping a team of US surgeons preparing to carry out the world's first face transplant. More news as and when I can find it. Insert gag about face being rejected, because you're so ugly.I think this one has the legs to run and run... just remember, you heard about it first at New Links!
Note to mmC : I think we need the science icon promoted to the sidebar... I'm gonna run out of bandwidth soon!
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Goed nieuws uit Arnhem
posted by bungers @ 2:24:00 PM
Here's a nice story from our buddies in Amsterdam. A thief broke into the offices of a charity without realising it. So he wrote an apologetic letter saying he was really sorry. Oh, that site is in Dutch, so for all of our less Dutch speaking readers, here's the same story in more detail (and in English) over at Yahoo! News - 'Good Thief' Leaves Apology for Burgled Charity.
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Here's a nice story from our buddies in Amsterdam. A thief broke into the offices of a charity without realising it. So he wrote an apologetic letter saying he was really sorry. Oh, that site is in Dutch, so for all of our less Dutch speaking readers, here's the same story in more detail (and in English) over at Yahoo! News - 'Good Thief' Leaves Apology for Burgled Charity.
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Bridge chosen for £1 coin design
Ugly Ass Fish #26353
posted by bungers @ 12:24:00 PM
You might be bariatric, but at least you're not this ugly too. You are? I'm sorry. You'll be needing Photoshop™
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You might be bariatric, but at least you're not this ugly too. You are? I'm sorry. You'll be needing Photoshop™
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Dr mmC was right!
posted by bungers @ 12:20:00 PM
Check it out fatties bariatrics! All you need is a DDR machine!
Video Game Fans Dance Off Extra Pounds
Edit : I've decided to combine the fruit icon with the science icon for all the bariatric stories on New Links. That's because fruit is good for you. You should be eating five portions of fruit and vegetables every day to stay healthy. If you'refat bariatric you're probably not eating enough fruit, and you're deffo not doing enough exercise.
See...? Isn't the tinternet useful?
You want proof? Carmen Electra eats lots of fruit. Fatty here doesn't.
Actually, I just found this, and it reflects a serious point that I could be trying to get across. We live in a society where we can do this to our kids? Cue rant about parenting... Very Fat Kid.
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Check it out Video Game Fans Dance Off Extra Pounds
Edit : I've decided to combine the fruit icon with the science icon for all the bariatric stories on New Links. That's because fruit is good for you. You should be eating five portions of fruit and vegetables every day to stay healthy. If you're
See...? Isn't the tinternet useful?
You want proof? Carmen Electra eats lots of fruit. Fatty here doesn't.
Actually, I just found this, and it reflects a serious point that I could be trying to get across. We live in a society where we can do this to our kids? Cue rant about parenting... Very Fat Kid.
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LucasFan Games
posted by mmChronic @ 11:03:00 AM
A truly international team has remade Maniac Mansion & Zak McKracken in 256 colour PC goodness. Say goodbye to that pixelly VGA cack and revisit these classic games. What next? A 3D Sam and Max would do for me please - especially as the rumoured sequel got binned.
via Waxy.
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A truly international team has remade Maniac Mansion & Zak McKracken in 256 colour PC goodness. Say goodbye to that pixelly VGA cack and revisit these classic games. What next? A 3D Sam and Max would do for me please - especially as the rumoured sequel got binned.
via Waxy.
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Are you local..?
posted by bungers @ 10:57:00 AM
mmChronic and I saw a mystery object floating up the Tyne the other day. And no, it wasn't a brown shark, as it flowed against the tide. We figure it was a sea monster. Anyways, the Sea Monster was floating past a place where there used to be an island called Kings Meadows.
The Island existed until the 1860's, until it was dredged to allow shipping upriver, and bigger ships to be launched from the yards on the Newcastle side of the Tyne. What price progress, eh? We would've had another pub to go to at lunchtime if it wasn't for those pesky industrialists!
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mmChronic and I saw a mystery object floating up the Tyne the other day. And no, it wasn't a brown shark, as it flowed against the tide. We figure it was a sea monster. Anyways, the Sea Monster was floating past a place where there used to be an island called Kings Meadows. The Island existed until the 1860's, until it was dredged to allow shipping upriver, and bigger ships to be launched from the yards on the Newcastle side of the Tyne. What price progress, eh? We would've had another pub to go to at lunchtime if it wasn't for those pesky industrialists!
"this area was a rural riverscape, the main feature being the King's Meadows a 30 acre island. Complete with a Pub, the Countess of Coventry, the island was a popular festival venue for horse racing and regattas and the landlady kept cows to supply the village of Elswick with milk."It's where they used to have the Blaydon Races you know? Fascinating facts... ;)
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Deserted Japanese coal town
posted by mmChronic @ 10:24:00 AM
This is an abandoned town in Japan called Gunkanjima. in 1810 this town was created on a reef due to the discovery of coal. As the waste from the mines came out the reefs got bigger. Eventually the town was abandoned in 1974 due to the mines being exhausted.
Next New Links trip? If we win the lottery maybe. After our fondness for urban, industrial archaeology demonstrated by our trip to the Byker Cully (here - maybe we should have done the pictures in B&W for that arty vibe!) and Victoria Tunnel (still lost in Bungers' mind) this one is a natural.
via Boing Boing.
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This is an abandoned town in Japan called Gunkanjima. in 1810 this town was created on a reef due to the discovery of coal. As the waste from the mines came out the reefs got bigger. Eventually the town was abandoned in 1974 due to the mines being exhausted.
Next New Links trip? If we win the lottery maybe. After our fondness for urban, industrial archaeology demonstrated by our trip to the Byker Cully (here - maybe we should have done the pictures in B&W for that arty vibe!) and Victoria Tunnel (still lost in Bungers' mind) this one is a natural.
via Boing Boing.
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Museum of Hoaxes
posted by mmChronic @ 8:23:00 AM
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This site is dedicated to covering internet stories and determining if they are hoaxes. Stories linked to on the main page include Wedding Dress Guy, Mini Cooper Autonomous Robot (so good we've had it twice!), childless German couple and the Chernobyl bike ride. Fact or fiction?
As well as covering internet hoaxes they have a history of hoaxing in the real world and various gullibility tests.
As well as covering internet hoaxes they have a history of hoaxing in the real world and various gullibility tests.
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
One legged DDR master
posted by mmChronic @ 11:22:00 AM
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This is absolutely amazing. The link is to a video of a one legged man playing Dance Dance Revolution. Not just playing it, but playing it well. I bet this bloke laughs in the face of people with bariatric 'disabilities'.
via Everything Burns (also added to Linkage)
via Everything Burns (also added to Linkage)
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Follow up: Optical Camouflage
posted by mmChronic @ 10:49:00 AM
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Here is a site with more of the invisibility videos including the one linked to the other day and an explanation of the technology used to produce them.
via The Flophouse (added to Linkage in sidebar)
via The Flophouse (added to Linkage in sidebar)
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Saturday, May 22, 2004
Where in the world is Mergs?
Friday, May 21, 2004
Friday Games
posted by mmChronic @ 6:33:00 PM
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This one should make up for that 10000Games.com shizzle which ILuvNufc pointed out was a ridiculously expensive pay site.
The Flash Games.com hasn't got 10000 games - but it has got 583 and is still adding them daily.
via Ultimate Insult
The Flash Games.com hasn't got 10000 games - but it has got 583 and is still adding them daily.
via Ultimate Insult
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Another Simpsons link
Bariatric Watch
posted by bungers @ 10:30:00 AM
Feeling a bit fat today lard a$$? Erm, I mean for all you bariatric people, who can't tell when to stop eating - here comes a device that scientists have invented to help you lose weight! Now pay attention...
Diet Device Makes You Take Smaller Bites.
There, that's not so hard is it? Now you've got no more excuses. Oh, apart from your metabolism, your "big bones", your parents, your school, your upbringing, your unsupportive friends and family... yadda yadda.
Here's my advice : stop eating so much junk, and get off your fat a$$ and do some excercise.
This part of the new series of bungers Advises™ posts. You know it makes sense©.
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Diet Device Makes You Take Smaller Bites.
There, that's not so hard is it? Now you've got no more excuses. Oh, apart from your metabolism, your "big bones", your parents, your school, your upbringing, your unsupportive friends and family... yadda yadda.
Here's my advice : stop eating so much junk, and get off your fat a$$ and do some excercise.
This part of the new series of bungers Advises™ posts. You know it makes sense©.
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100 Sites for Men - that won't offend the missus!
posted by bungers @ 9:39:00 AM
Need I say any more? Here are 100 Sites for Men that aren't offensive. I'm off to do a m-m-m-m-multipost of 100 sites that deffo will offend the wife!
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Need I say any more? Here are 100 Sites for Men that aren't offensive. I'm off to do a m-m-m-m-multipost of 100 sites that deffo will offend the wife!
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It's Mr. T's Birthday!
posted by mmChronic @ 8:26:00 AM
Again! Is he like the Queen where he gets 2? Well if the Queen is worth 2 then Mr. T must be worth at least 4. According to Wikipedia today (21st) is his birthday as was May 6th.
Which reminds me - we need to do a new icon roundup.
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Again! Is he like the Queen where he gets 2? Well if the Queen is worth 2 then Mr. T must be worth at least 4. According to Wikipedia today (21st) is his birthday as was May 6th.
Which reminds me - we need to do a new icon roundup.
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One for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 8:20:00 AM
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Because he enjoyed the Da Vinci code so much he might be interested in the news of a talk that Dan Brown gave. The sequel is about Free Masons and is set in Washington. I wonder if it'll explain the masonic symbols on the US Dollar. The article doesn't say when it'd due but apparently there is a clue on the cover of the Da Vinci code which gives some information about the new book.
He also said he left out what he felt would be the most controversial plot device - not for fear of it's controversy but because he felt it was "flimsy". So what was so controversial? He was going to have Jesus surviving the crucifuxion. Which reminds me of something I've been trying to find out for ages.
I remember reading a sci-fi book as a fairly young child (9-10) where a Jewish scientist goes back in time, discovers Jesus is a retard and takes his place. He then goes through lots of the things mentioned in the Bible and ultimately gets crucified. Does anyone know what this book is and who wrote it?
via boingboing
He also said he left out what he felt would be the most controversial plot device - not for fear of it's controversy but because he felt it was "flimsy". So what was so controversial? He was going to have Jesus surviving the crucifuxion. Which reminds me of something I've been trying to find out for ages.
I remember reading a sci-fi book as a fairly young child (9-10) where a Jewish scientist goes back in time, discovers Jesus is a retard and takes his place. He then goes through lots of the things mentioned in the Bible and ultimately gets crucified. Does anyone know what this book is and who wrote it?
via boingboing
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
Cool
One For Dogs
So what is the new feature?
posted by mmChronic @ 6:16:00 PM
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New Feature? But it's an old picture from our Byker Cully report.
It's the 1st picture that came to hand when testing our New Feature™. Blogger have introduced photoblogging now. So what does photoblogging mean to we New Linkers? Well I could pretend it's all about riding the cutting edge of blogging and that we are hip, trendy Generation Xers. But that would be silly. The reason it is going to get used here is of paramount importance to the net's premier cheapskates - it means FREE hi-res image storage! YAY!
A full tutorial is available at Blogger. But the basic premise is download and install a chat gizmo called Hello, choose send picture, then choose BloggerBot as the recipient. You will then get an option screen for resizing,captioning etc. Once you have done that, choose publish to blog and off it goes. The picture is published as a thumbnail which is a link through to the full size picture.
When resizing images for the thumbnail choose one of the two smaller sizes for publishing as the largest size will probably screw the layout of the page. As for the size of the stored hi-res image choose the largest. After all we aren't paying for the hosting! ;)
CAVEAT: I haven't looked at privacy implications yet re spyware etc as I had to have a fiddle with it straight away. I'll be going back to the Hello page to have a read soon.
ps. Bungers was going to have a look at this and write something but there are several reasons I've done it instead.
It's the 1st picture that came to hand when testing our New Feature™. Blogger have introduced photoblogging now. So what does photoblogging mean to we New Linkers? Well I could pretend it's all about riding the cutting edge of blogging and that we are hip, trendy Generation Xers. But that would be silly. The reason it is going to get used here is of paramount importance to the net's premier cheapskates - it means FREE hi-res image storage! YAY!
A full tutorial is available at Blogger. But the basic premise is download and install a chat gizmo called Hello, choose send picture, then choose BloggerBot as the recipient. You will then get an option screen for resizing,captioning etc. Once you have done that, choose publish to blog and off it goes. The picture is published as a thumbnail which is a link through to the full size picture.
When resizing images for the thumbnail choose one of the two smaller sizes for publishing as the largest size will probably screw the layout of the page. As for the size of the stored hi-res image choose the largest. After all we aren't paying for the hosting! ;)
CAVEAT: I haven't looked at privacy implications yet re spyware etc as I had to have a fiddle with it straight away. I'll be going back to the Hello page to have a read soon.
ps. Bungers was going to have a look at this and write something but there are several reasons I've done it instead.
- I couldn't wait to have a play
- We would be waiting for months for him to do it ;)
- Most importantly of all he is doing the Victoria Tunnel Report tonight. Parp!
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New Feature!
posted by mmChronic @ 6:13:00 PM
The Ouseburn entering the Byker Cully
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The Ouseburn entering the Byker Cully
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The Offishul Joe Cole Site
posted by Merg @ 2:50:00 PM
The Official Joe Cole web site for all your fanboy needs. Tho' if that animation of him is accurate, it looks like he's been in a nasty accident since I last saw him play...
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The Official Joe Cole web site for all your fanboy needs. Tho' if that animation of him is accurate, it looks like he's been in a nasty accident since I last saw him play...
Just on my morning fix of nettery while mine host has wandered off to buy breakfast.
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Set other peoples' Away Messages!
posted by mmChronic @ 1:45:00 PM
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This site has a form to fill in which generates a link, which you send to someone runing AIM and when they click on it their away message can be set to what you like.
It's a shame that this only works in AIM as I don't know any AOLers.
It's a shame that this only works in AIM as I don't know any AOLers.
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Test Drive a Macintosh...
posted by bungers @ 1:40:00 PM
Gather round kids, and I'll tell you all a story...
Back in the dark days before iPod, there was this computator called the Mac SE. It used to look like this. Now you can experience computing as it once was! Wired reports on the impressive efforts of two German gentlemen that have used Java and other "modern" tools to create a website that emulates a MacSE.
Appropriately named WebSE, this site "...allows anyone, on any platform, to run a facsimile of Macintosh System 7, the Mac operating system circa 1990
You can pretend to be Mr. Scott!
Did I mention that you can play Space Invaders on it? Who said there was never any good games on the mac?!!
Link shamelessly plundered from insanely-great. Ta!
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Gather round kids, and I'll tell you all a story... Back in the dark days before iPod, there was this computator called the Mac SE. It used to look like this. Now you can experience computing as it once was! Wired reports on the impressive efforts of two German gentlemen that have used Java and other "modern" tools to create a website that emulates a MacSE.
Appropriately named WebSE, this site "...allows anyone, on any platform, to run a facsimile of Macintosh System 7, the Mac operating system circa 1990
You can pretend to be Mr. Scott!
Did I mention that you can play Space Invaders on it? Who said there was never any good games on the mac?!!
Link shamelessly plundered from insanely-great. Ta!
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Scared of Brood-X?
posted by mmChronic @ 12:42:00 PM
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You should be. According to Cicadaville.com cicadas are a lot worse than everyone actually thinks. Did you know for instance their staple food is human children? Or that the only way you can prevent your children becoming egg filled hosts is to shrinkwrap them?
It seems Brood-X is deadlier than everyone thought. Run away.
via Presurfer
It seems Brood-X is deadlier than everyone thought. Run away.
via Presurfer
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Follow up : MS Paint Pr0n
posted by bungers @ 11:34:00 AM
Dammit beavis! I've been beaten to it again! (<---that's a pun!)
Here's an article about a filthy-student-run site that specialises in MS Paint Porn. The article is SFW, it's a story all about how popular it's been with the all the perverts in Scandanavia. I'm just going to have to make my name as a famous MS Paint artist instead. Seems like it's "back to the old drawing board", as some might say...
</genius>
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Dammit beavis! I've been beaten to it again! (<---that's a pun!)Here's an article about a filthy-student-run site that specialises in MS Paint Porn. The article is SFW, it's a story all about how popular it's been with the all the perverts in Scandanavia. I'm just going to have to make my name as a famous MS Paint artist instead. Seems like it's "back to the old drawing board", as some might say...
</genius>
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Church of Fools
posted by mmChronic @ 10:13:00 AM
Remember Ship Of Fools who we featured regarding their 11th Commandment compo? Well they launched an online virtual church last week. How did we miss that one? Unfortunately it has already been swamped with people logging in as Satan and swearing their heads off!
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Remember Ship Of Fools who we featured regarding their 11th Commandment compo? Well they launched an online virtual church last week. How did we miss that one? Unfortunately it has already been swamped with people logging in as Satan and swearing their heads off!The church is partly intended for people on the edges (and beyond them) of faith, so please be aware that the language and behaviour in church is often colourful and occasionally offensive. Please bear with us ? this is an experiment and we're working on creative solutions to the problem of mischievous visitors. Church of Fools is currently not suitable for children.Apparently moderators have been equipped with a 'smite' button! This article at CNN has more on the disruption. I thought CNN was supposed to be a serious news source? If so how can they say that someone who logs in with a legitimate username & password is a 'hacker'? I've just logged into Blogger so I'm presumably a hacker now. I'm off to get a job as a security expert.
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Bling Breakfast
posted by mmChronic @ 8:26:00 AM
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...one for Merg.
If you are feeling peckish this morning have your breakfast at Norma's. They have a bargain $1000 caviar omelette. If that's too expensive try the budget $150 menu at Per Se. You should try paying with a gmail account! ;)
If you are feeling peckish this morning have your breakfast at Norma's. They have a bargain $1000 caviar omelette. If that's too expensive try the budget $150 menu at Per Se. You should try paying with a gmail account! ;)
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GBA Mod...
posted by mmChronic @ 8:16:00 AM
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So what happens when the patient is bored but the monkey is asleep? He'll be needing a specially adapted GBA. This has been modified to add an extra controller which the user controls with his tongue.
via boing boing.
via boing boing.
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Simian school
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Newlinks NY Stylee
posted by Merg @ 11:24:00 PM
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No linkage, just abuse of posting privs to say hello from NY.
Currently at a mate's home in Yonkers, near The Bronx, but don't expect a lot from me while I am here.
Regards,
Merg (who is full of mexican food and mexican beer).
Currently at a mate's home in Yonkers, near The Bronx, but don't expect a lot from me while I am here.
Regards,
Merg (who is full of mexican food and mexican beer).
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One for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 9:32:00 PM
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If you weren't still dithering over buying an Xbox you could have had a limited edition Crystal Xbox box for a bargain £115 off ebay the other day.
I bet j19ysx is feeling very relieved after reading the eventual buyer's feedback. So much for Robocop's crime fighting prowess in a small town in Yorkshire. Although the only crime seems to have been the stupidity of the buyer - and amazingly there were plenty of other would-be buyers. I'm off for a rummage in the cupboard.
via JengaJam
I bet j19ysx is feeling very relieved after reading the eventual buyer's feedback. So much for Robocop's crime fighting prowess in a small town in Yorkshire. Although the only crime seems to have been the stupidity of the buyer - and amazingly there were plenty of other would-be buyers. I'm off for a rummage in the cupboard.
via JengaJam
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Implosion World
posted by mmChronic @ 6:05:00 PM
Implosion World manages to out-Dibnah Fred Dibnah although it is a little light on steam engines. This website features images and videos of building demolitions. The buildings featured include power stations, department stores and sports stadiums. Videos are in RealPlayer format.
via Sciatica.
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Implosion World manages to out-Dibnah Fred Dibnah although it is a little light on steam engines. This website features images and videos of building demolitions. The buildings featured include power stations, department stores and sports stadiums. Videos are in RealPlayer format.
via Sciatica.
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Look There's A Dog
posted by mmChronic @ 3:44:00 PM
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The next time we lose our dogs we can get the whole country to play this new game that is sweeping the globe. I'm sure we'll be inundated with sightings of him as people try to score 5 points.
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Got any spare gmail addresses, guv?
posted by mmChronic @ 1:34:00 PM
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It seems a gmail address is fast becoming the de facto currency unit on the interweb. One address raised $137.50 in an eBay auction. Now you can swap addresses for all sorts of stuff - including dead cockroaches, pr0n and tons of other things. Sort of like a virtual multi-coloured swap shop but without the annoying bearded dwarf with gross sweaters.
I got my gmail invite via Blogger due to being an active blogger. Once I signed up for it and started using it they offered me another 2 to give to friends. I've given one away and was going to give the other to Merg as he missed the Blogger offer which disappeared after the redesign was launched. However, according to the swap site, it appears the offer is going to come back soon so he will get his own anyway. How desperate are you for this gmail address Merg? Can you wait so I can get myself a cockroach? :)
I got my gmail invite via Blogger due to being an active blogger. Once I signed up for it and started using it they offered me another 2 to give to friends. I've given one away and was going to give the other to Merg as he missed the Blogger offer which disappeared after the redesign was launched. However, according to the swap site, it appears the offer is going to come back soon so he will get his own anyway. How desperate are you for this gmail address Merg? Can you wait so I can get myself a cockroach? :)
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NewLinks flies the Atlantic in style...
posted by bungers @ 1:31:00 PM
Hey Mergs, you should print some of these out before you go and leave them in the backs of all the seats on the plane!
Found at gregr's site, via boingboing. Check out the duct tape courier bag. Forget those Gucci carry cases, I want one of these!
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Hey Mergs, you should print some of these out before you go and leave them in the backs of all the seats on the plane! Found at gregr's site, via boingboing. Check out the duct tape courier bag. Forget those Gucci carry cases, I want one of these!
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BBC - Science
posted by bungers @ 11:45:00 AM
Here's an interesting little test that the BBC have borrowed from the Natural History Museum. It checks if you have a male brain, or a female brain. Or something. I of course, excel at this kind of test, and I got all the questions right, and can use both halves of my mighty melon. It's all about being in touch with your yin and your yang you know....
Take the test right now!
And if there are any sexy females out there (22-32) who would like me to get in touch with their mighty melons and need somewang erm, yang action, you know where I am. ;)
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Here's an interesting little test that the BBC have borrowed from the Natural History Museum. It checks if you have a male brain, or a female brain. Or something. I of course, excel at this kind of test, and I got all the questions right, and can use both halves of my mighty melon. It's all about being in touch with your yin and your yang you know....Take the test right now!
And if there are any sexy females out there (22-32) who would like me to get in touch with their mighty melons and need some
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Polish your Star Wars helmet
posted by mmChronic @ 11:31:00 AM
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So you've bought your stormtrooper costume but you want a different helmet to give you more protection when walking through trash compactor doorways. Star Wars Helmets.com should be able to help you out.
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In absentia
posted by mmChronic @ 11:09:00 AM
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Mergs is off to NY today and as he isn't flying with a company that can do this he is webless. So here is a big lump o' links he left behind.
The only one I saw duplicated was the Mexican UFO story which I've got rid of. I think all the rest are new to New Links.
- Gangs Arranged StreetFight Via The Internet
- Red Rectangle Nebula
- Oxford Bottled Beer Database
- Puppy Dials Ambulance
- First Sex and Bad Language, Now Smoking?
- Information Overload
- Sausage Retires
- Metroid Cubed
- Be Like Your Dog
- Gravity Sucks
- Mark Osbourne's Academy Award Nominated Short Film, "More".
- Car Game
- Stupid Ball Game
- Fastest Flashing Star Ever
- Michael Moore's Side of the Story
- Stupid Videos Trailerpull
- Truckers Turning to Wi-fi
- TxTMsg Killed The Video Star
- Kingdom of Loathing
- Floppy RAID
The only one I saw duplicated was the Mexican UFO story which I've got rid of. I think all the rest are new to New Links.
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10, 9, 8,.. Byker, we have a problem.
posted by mmChronic @ 10:23:00 AM
The first civilian rocket to reach space was launched yesterday by the Civilian Space eXploration Team. I'm off to buy a rocket kit for the New Links Lunar Expedition.
via boingboing.
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The first civilian rocket to reach space was launched yesterday by the Civilian Space eXploration Team. I'm off to buy a rocket kit for the New Links Lunar Expedition.
via boingboing.
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More PSP and NDS stuff...
posted by bungers @ 10:01:00 AM
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Massive article on the PSP and the DS here from Lik-Sang. You can also pre-order too! PSP will be out on the 19th November, DS is Q4. w00+!
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Secret of Invisibility Discovered?
posted by Merg @ 11:30:00 PM
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The Japanese appear to have discovered the secret of invisibility. After all, the camera never lies, does it?
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e-bore-ometer
posted by Dogs @ 11:18:00 PM
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I got a 70% rating on the e-bore-ometer test.
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The Mighty Boosh
posted by bungers @ 10:49:00 PM
If you're not watching The Mighty Boosh on BBC3, then you should be!
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If you're not watching The Mighty Boosh on BBC3, then you should be!
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Bush is Lord
posted by mmChronic @ 10:02:00 PM
Now we know why Blair prayed with Bush. It seems that George W. Bush is in fact Jeebus Christ so it would have appeared rude not to pray with his lord. Yay for British good manners.
via linkdump.
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Now we know why Blair prayed with Bush. It seems that George W. Bush is in fact Jeebus Christ so it would have appeared rude not to pray with his lord. Yay for British good manners.
via linkdump.
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Hollywood Vs Homer
posted by Merg @ 9:46:00 PM
It's anorak time again, kids, with Hollywood vs Homer - that's of Illiad fame, not another Springfield reference.
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It's anorak time again, kids, with Hollywood vs Homer - that's of Illiad fame, not another Springfield reference.A list of the (many) mistakes, errors and changes that the movie Troy made to the classic Classics.
Note that if you're not already familiar with the stories, there's some spoilers there-in.
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Hits wh0re
posted by Dogs @ 8:42:00 PM
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This should knock Bungers off the top of the referrer ratings...
Great big knockers
Huge jugs
Huge knobs
Giant cocks
Edit: And special thanks to mC for finding us some fantastic wet pussy pics.
:)
Great big knockers
Huge jugs
Huge knobs
Giant cocks
Edit: And special thanks to mC for finding us some fantastic wet pussy pics.
:)
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B.A.P.S.
Graffiti the Web
posted by mmChronic @ 8:26:00 PM
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New Links has been vandalised.
Graffiti the Web allows you to choose an image of your own or one from a selection, add text and attach it to a web site. Some of the already vandalised sites like the BBC one may be a little NSFW.
via linkfilter.
Graffiti the Web allows you to choose an image of your own or one from a selection, add text and attach it to a web site. Some of the already vandalised sites like the BBC one may be a little NSFW.
via linkfilter.
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Ermmm Poot Poot
Did I forget something...
posted by Dogs @ 8:20:00 PM
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Ever get that feeling that you left the house and forgot to switch off the oven or something.
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Slip-Slidin' Away!
posted by Merg @ 5:11:00 PM
A follow-up to today's earlier posting about the slimed hotel room courtesy of Mr. Vaseline himself, Robert Chamberlain, courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
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A follow-up to today's earlier posting about the slimed hotel room courtesy of Mr. Vaseline himself, Robert Chamberlain, courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
It turns out this wasn't the first time he'd done this, but the previous time the manager of the motel in question had declined to press charges.
At least in the pictures, he appears to be free of vaseline, and other random lubricants.
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GTA Lego City
posted by Merg @ 4:42:00 PM
GTA: Lego City.
Lego was never THIS violent when I was a kid... ... or involved as many copyright violations!
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GTA: Lego City.Lego was never THIS violent when I was a kid... ... or involved as many copyright violations!
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Robert Wants To Stay
posted by Merg @ 2:10:00 PM
Robert is quoted as saying "I do not want to leave Newcastle. I am happy and want to stay". However, he's also quoted as saying "But I will say that I do my best for the club every time I play for Newcastle and that will always be the case."
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Robert is quoted as saying "I do not want to leave Newcastle. I am happy and want to stay". However, he's also quoted as saying "But I will say that I do my best for the club every time I play for Newcastle and that will always be the case."
I shall leave you to make your own minds up on that one.
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This is virgin on the ridiculous
posted by mmChronic @ 2:08:00 PM
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In complete contrast to the claims in the article linked to here it seems that virgins who take the pledge to stay virgins until they are married are just as likely to suffer from STD's as those who don't.
I still haven't worked what telephones have to do with the story though.
I still haven't worked what telephones have to do with the story though.
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Norweigan Schoolgirls "Right Goers"?
posted by Merg @ 1:58:00 PM
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... and to follow on from the American Virgins, we have the Norweigan... well... decide for yourself on this one.
26 Seniors from two Norweigan High Schools have signed a contract to make a porn movie with (apparently) famous Norweigan Porn star, Rocco.
Don't all rush to Norway at once, chaps.
26 Seniors from two Norweigan High Schools have signed a contract to make a porn movie with (apparently) famous Norweigan Porn star, Rocco.
Don't all rush to Norway at once, chaps.
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The Silver Ring Thing
posted by Merg @ 1:46:00 PM
American virgins tour Britain to persuade British Youth to keep stay chaste and pure(and to persuade them to buy crappy 10-quid a throw silver rings and t-shirts.)
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American virgins tour Britain to persuade British Youth to keep stay chaste and pure(and to persuade them to buy crappy 10-quid a throw silver rings and t-shirts.)
Despite being a faith-based initiative (or so they say), it's both "hip" and "edgy". Whatever that means.
No word yet of any restriction orders being placed upon Newlinks regulars to prevent attendance.
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Hands-on with Sony's mini masterpiece
posted by bungers @ 1:01:00 PM
Looks like the DS will be struggling against this little fella. It's more of Bungers' Official PSP Coverage™
There's also a list of games on that link, but the highlights for me look like this:
Oh, and while I'm on the subject of "hands-on" what better to talk about than breast implants. Awful Plastic Surgery has been updated with some new horrors, and I also found (during the course of my research) My B(o)(o)b Blog, which also contains lots of information pertaining to the wonderful world of breast augmentation.
You can also Rate Your Rack on this site, which is probably NSFW, and in the interest of balance, our female readers can also Rate My Rod. The link's on the page. I imagine it's NSFW too. Have fun!
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Looks like the DS will be struggling against this little fella. It's more of Bungers' Official PSP Coverage™There's also a list of games on that link, but the highlights for me look like this:
- Ridge Racer
- Tales of Arcadia
- Wipeout Pure
- Metal Gear Acid
- Gran Turismo 4 (also referred to as Gran Turismo Mobile)
Oh, and while I'm on the subject of "hands-on" what better to talk about than breast implants. Awful Plastic Surgery has been updated with some new horrors, and I also found (during the course of my research) My B(o)(o)b Blog, which also contains lots of information pertaining to the wonderful world of breast augmentation.
You can also Rate Your Rack on this site, which is probably NSFW, and in the interest of balance, our female readers can also Rate My Rod. The link's on the page. I imagine it's NSFW too. Have fun!
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Waiting for immaculate conception
posted by mmChronic @ 12:46:00 PM
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A German couple had still failed to conceive after 8 years of marriage. After visiting a fertility clinic it seems they were unaware of the importance of sex in the process - in fact they were unaware of sex full stop due to a religious upbringing.
"We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."
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And here is exactly where it is at! ;)
posted by bungers @ 11:36:00 AM
For all you geographically limited NewLinkers, here is a map showing where Springfield and Eugene actually are! They're on the west coast of America, just underneath the state with Seattle in, and just north of California. If you use our high powered zoom button on our ex-US military satellite that we bought on e-bay, you can see Springfield too! Maybe if you zoom in enough, you'll see Merg's cousin! w00+!!
EDIT : It seems the uplink to the military satellite has failed. You'll just have to use the zoom slider on the side of the screen. Sorry! ;)
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For all you geographically limited NewLinkers, here is a map showing where Springfield and Eugene actually are! They're on the west coast of America, just underneath the state with Seattle in, and just north of California. If you use our high powered zoom button on our ex-US military satellite that we bought on e-bay, you can see Springfield too! Maybe if you zoom in enough, you'll see Merg's cousin! w00+!!EDIT : It seems the uplink to the military satellite has failed. You'll just have to use the zoom slider on the side of the screen. Sorry! ;)
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The Simpsons House
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 11:17:00 AM
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In keeping with todays Springfield theme here is a look around Springfield's most famous house.
Oops! sorry, wrong Springfield.
Oops! sorry, wrong Springfield.
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Profanisaurus Rex
posted by Merg @ 10:42:00 AM
And, following on for our last post, in the JICYMI category - Newlinks proudly presents a link - no more, no less - to an online copy of Roger Melly's Profanisaurus Rex. For all our foreign fans who wish to be fluent in the art of using obscene and profane English, look no further.
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And, following on for our last post, in the JICYMI category - Newlinks proudly presents a link - no more, no less - to an online copy of Roger Melly's Profanisaurus Rex. For all our foreign fans who wish to be fluent in the art of using obscene and profane English, look no further.
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The English-to-American Dictionary
posted by mmChronic @ 10:34:00 AM
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For the benefit of our American readers, and especially our legions(!) of fans in Eugene, here is an English-to-American dictionary.
You'll see we aren't being rude when we say faggot or fag but we are when we say fanny!
via Hal's Stoopid Links
You'll see we aren't being rude when we say faggot or fag but we are when we say fanny!
via Hal's Stoopid Links
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Welcome To The Hotel Vaseline?
posted by Merg @ 8:40:00 AM
Man Arrested After Hotel Room Found Covered In Vaseline.
You couldn't make it up...
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Man Arrested After Hotel Room Found Covered In Vaseline.
You couldn't make it up...
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LALAS
Newlinks likes Eugene & Springfield
posted by mmChronic @ 8:14:00 AM
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And it's nothing to do with Manic Miner or the Simpsons. Eugene.com, which is the local site for Eugene & Springfield area in Oregon, have made us Blog of the Day! Yay! Who needs the Guardian?
In other news Nothing To Do have added us to their linkage too.
In other news Nothing To Do have added us to their linkage too.
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World Affairs
posted by Merg @ 7:43:00 AM
Here at Newlinks, we take a very serious interest in world affairs. And in that vein, here's a pic of US Presidential Candidate John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra, at the Cannes Film Festival.
I'm sure you'll all agree this is indeed worthy coverage of the important issues of the day.
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Here at Newlinks, we take a very serious interest in world affairs. And in that vein, here's a pic of US Presidential Candidate John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra, at the Cannes Film Festival.
I'm sure you'll all agree this is indeed worthy coverage of the important issues of the day.
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Monday, May 17, 2004
What should Wacko really look like?
posted by mmChronic @ 10:14:00 PM
If Michael Jackson hadn't had 3 squillion plastic surgery operations what would he look like? ForArtist.com think they know. The site specialises in forensic art and one of the processes they have examples of is facial aging - and they've done it to Wacko. Guess what? He looks a little different.
via Hal's Stoopid Links
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If Michael Jackson hadn't had 3 squillion plastic surgery operations what would he look like? ForArtist.com think they know. The site specialises in forensic art and one of the processes they have examples of is facial aging - and they've done it to Wacko. Guess what? He looks a little different.
via Hal's Stoopid Links
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Graffiti compo winner
posted by mmChronic @ 5:55:00 PM
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We've had 2 entries for our graffiti compo - one from me and one from Bungers. I'll give the prize to Bungers even though mine is artistically superior! :)
He gets the prize due to his incisive commentary on inner city yoof art (see picture further down the page). Or something. That and the fact there'd be whinges if I awarded myself the prize.
So Bungers gets a 2 for the price of 1 ticket (Monday to Thursday only) for the Gate cinema, valid until 27th May. Please allow 28 days for delivery.
He gets the prize due to his incisive commentary on inner city yoof art (see picture further down the page). Or something. That and the fact there'd be whinges if I awarded myself the prize.
So Bungers gets a 2 for the price of 1 ticket (Monday to Thursday only) for the Gate cinema, valid until 27th May. Please allow 28 days for delivery.
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One For Bungers
Johnny Whoop Ass
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 4:22:00 PM
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Remember He-Man? Not like this you don't Johnny Whoop Ass
NSFB (Big Download)
NSFB (Big Download)
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Origami folding robot
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 4:06:00 PM
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Carnegie Mellon student develops origami folding robot
Afternoon chaps.
Afternoon chaps.
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Euro 2004 news!
Heskey. Why?
posted by Merg @ 3:38:00 PM
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Just incase you'd missed the announcement of the Euro2004 England squad, it's here.
Dodgy keepers abound, Emile Heskey made the squad and Alan Smith in the "back ups", with the only Toon face making the grade that of last night's TV star, Mr. Kieron Dyer.
Dodgy keepers abound, Emile Heskey made the squad and Alan Smith in the "back ups", with the only Toon face making the grade that of last night's TV star, Mr. Kieron Dyer.
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Kill Bill: The Bride Vs The Crazy 88
posted by mmChronic @ 2:30:00 PM
You know that scene in Kill Bill where the Bride (Uma Thurman) takes on the Crazy 88 gang in the restaurant and leaves piles of dead and wounded all over? Well here's your chance to relive the action. Features piles of severed limbs too! :)
via Nothing to do?
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You know that scene in Kill Bill where the Bride (Uma Thurman) takes on the Crazy 88 gang in the restaurant and leaves piles of dead and wounded all over? Well here's your chance to relive the action. Features piles of severed limbs too! :)
via Nothing to do?
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Compo entry...
Bungers' Book of the Month...
posted by bungers @ 12:44:00 PM
What with the holiday season coming up, it's about time you bought some new books to read round the pool. I'll be running some diet and exercise tips later in the week so you too can get the swimsuit body you desire, but anyway, I digress. Picked up a copy of The Da Vinci Code the other day, and started it yesterday morning. Almost read three quarters of it already, so I think this qualifies as one of those "difficult to put down books". Buy it from our buddies at Amazon, and it's only £6.00 or something. Go on... you know you want to!
BTW... If you want to know more, go to Dan Brown's website.
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What with the holiday season coming up, it's about time you bought some new books to read round the pool. I'll be running some diet and exercise tips later in the week so you too can get the swimsuit body you desire, but anyway, I digress. Picked up a copy of The Da Vinci Code the other day, and started it yesterday morning. Almost read three quarters of it already, so I think this qualifies as one of those "difficult to put down books". Buy it from our buddies at Amazon, and it's only £6.00 or something. Go on... you know you want to!BTW... If you want to know more, go to Dan Brown's website.
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VAIO pocket pictures...
posted by bungers @ 12:25:00 PM
Here is the Sony iPod picture, that I couldn't find last week. mmm... Shiny...
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Here is the Sony iPod picture, that I couldn't find last week. mmm... Shiny...
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Frogman Living in Bog Arrested for Arson
posted by bungers @ 12:19:00 PM
You couldn't make it up if you tried. Frogman Living in Bog Arrested for Arson. Maybe we should recruit him into our squad for the next NewLinks Investigates™, you never know when you'll be needing a human frog...
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You couldn't make it up if you tried. Frogman Living in Bog Arrested for Arson. Maybe we should recruit him into our squad for the next NewLinks Investigates™, you never know when you'll be needing a human frog...
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New Linkers night out
posted by Dogs @ 11:06:00 AM
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Dear New Linkers. This bloke who plays guitar for The Stranglers is doing a solo gig in the Magnesia Bank in North Shields this Wednesday night. I've seen him play before and can thoroughly recommend.
I'm taking DCB. Anyone else fancy good beer and music?
I'm taking DCB. Anyone else fancy good beer and music?
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Next GTA to include bariatric simulation
posted by mmChronic @ 8:28:00 AM
According to an article at Eurogamer.net GTA:SA takes the fitness bit in the game a bit further. In the earlier games you got knackered easily when running about but this got better the more you ran i.e. exercise and you get healthier.
The upcoming one has added lard - you have to eat to keep the character alive, but if you eat too much he puts on weight which not only affects how he looks, it slows him down too.
Who said videogaming wasn't healthy?
via Sciatica
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According to an article at Eurogamer.net GTA:SA takes the fitness bit in the game a bit further. In the earlier games you got knackered easily when running about but this got better the more you ran i.e. exercise and you get healthier.
The upcoming one has added lard - you have to eat to keep the character alive, but if you eat too much he puts on weight which not only affects how he looks, it slows him down too.
Who said videogaming wasn't healthy?
via Sciatica
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More Toon.
posted by Merg @ 6:51:00 AM
Another Toon editorial piece -- it appears we're flavour of the month -- and quite a decent article, from yesterday's Sunday Times. Requires Registration.
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Sunday, May 16, 2004
New Look, New Features
posted by mmChronic @ 9:41:00 PM
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Almost finished with the redesign now as you can see. I've used one of Blogger's new templates (Rounders which is a bit easier on the eye than Rounders2 which I originally picked) and stuck our stuff in it.
So what's new? The item pages have a different sidebar to the main and archive pages. One of the new additions to the sidebar on the item page is a 'Previous Posts' section which has links to the 10 erm... previous posts. I've also added a search box which is just a Google site: search for those too lazy to use the search in the Blogger publishing interface. ;)
What's still to do? Complete the republishing for starters as Blogger has a habit of timing out when doing the whole site. Not surprising considering there are approaching 2000 pages now! I'll keep plugging away at that now and that should be sorted soon. The layout is buggered on some archive pages - this is due to some pictures being too big (max width in future is 390-400 pixels please) in the posts. I'll fix that by fixing the offending posts and republishing. I also need to do a logo as the banner at the top is a little plain. At least it's not burgundy.
So what's new? The item pages have a different sidebar to the main and archive pages. One of the new additions to the sidebar on the item page is a 'Previous Posts' section which has links to the 10 erm... previous posts. I've also added a search box which is just a Google site: search for those too lazy to use the search in the Blogger publishing interface. ;)
What's still to do? Complete the republishing for starters as Blogger has a habit of timing out when doing the whole site. Not surprising considering there are approaching 2000 pages now! I'll keep plugging away at that now and that should be sorted soon. The layout is buggered on some archive pages - this is due to some pictures being too big (max width in future is 390-400 pixels please) in the posts. I'll fix that by fixing the offending posts and republishing. I also need to do a logo as the banner at the top is a little plain. At least it's not burgundy.
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A hat trick of spiritual guidance posts...
posted by mmChronic @ 5:19:00 PM
After giving you the spiritual lowdown on tonsures and role models here's what could happen to you if you don't follow the scriptures. It's a genuine act of God - watch a house being eaten by a tornado! 27Mb mpg - RCSABB.
via Boing Boing.
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After giving you the spiritual lowdown on tonsures and role models here's what could happen to you if you don't follow the scriptures. It's a genuine act of God - watch a house being eaten by a tornado! 27Mb mpg - RCSABB.
via Boing Boing.
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Jesus Had Short Hair!
posted by mmChronic @ 4:54:00 PM
Here's some more spiritual guidance: Long hair is a tool of the devil used to tie up children and sell them into slavery. Probably. So much so that it seems Jesus couldn't possibly have had long hair.
But surely God isn't overly concerned about long hair when he has all those famines and wars to worry about? It seems He is!
via Presurfer
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Here's some more spiritual guidance: Long hair is a tool of the devil used to tie up children and sell them into slavery. Probably. So much so that it seems Jesus couldn't possibly have had long hair.
But surely God isn't overly concerned about long hair when he has all those famines and wars to worry about? It seems He is!
Hair was very important to our Lord. He reminds us in Matthew 10:30 and in Luke 12:7 that the "very hairs of your heard are all numbered," signifying the importance to Him of every aspect of our life and appearance.Well if it's that important we'll be off to cleanse Hippy Tony of evil with flames and scissors.
via Presurfer
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Power Ranger Christians
posted by mmChronic @ 4:21:00 PM
Are your children in need of spiritual guidance but you think a Jesus action figure will not be inspirational enough? Then you need Power Ranger Christians. Follow the adventures of 5 young Christians as they battle to smash the works of Satan. And Davis Cola.
That's what we need on the Sabbath - more spiritual stories to help us find our path through life.
via PortalOfEvil
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Are your children in need of spiritual guidance but you think a Jesus action figure will not be inspirational enough? Then you need Power Ranger Christians. Follow the adventures of 5 young Christians as they battle to smash the works of Satan. And Davis Cola.
That's what we need on the Sabbath - more spiritual stories to help us find our path through life.
via PortalOfEvil
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Graffiti anyone?
Sunday Morning Megapost!
posted by Merg @ 8:16:00 AM
Iiiits Roundup time from YLFM.
Yes, he's too lazy to actually do individual posts once again, so any chance of actually finding any of these later... HAH!
Well, that's it for now. More later, if you think you can stand it.
--YLFM
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Iiiits Roundup time from YLFM.
Yes, he's too lazy to actually do individual posts once again, so any chance of actually finding any of these later... HAH!
- Bio-Tech:
- Anti-Fat Drug -- the perfect cure for fat mice -- and maybe fat people?
- Anti-HIV - Man made "hunter killer" virus.
- Outsourced, outspaced medicine -- NASA working on tele-working for doctors.
- Anti-Fat Drug -- the perfect cure for fat mice -- and maybe fat people?
- Auctions:
- Ghostbusters Suit -- with working lights!
- Star Trek Appartment -- for the rich Trek nut.
- Body Armor -- The "bear" suits. I dunno...
- Ghostbusters Suit -- with working lights!
- Stupid Stuff:
- Magic 8-Ball Tech Support -- The new tool for oursourced tech support everywhere!
- Cop Car, Italian Stylee -- beats Leicster's Lotus!
- The Amazing Balancing Goat -- Entertainment under the Taliban?
- Cap Removers -- for those hard-to-remove air-valve dust-caps! Complete with "How To" video!
- Liam Gallagher fought with computer salesmen, not gangsters.
- Judge orders couple not to have children -- if only he'd do it to more people...
- Swearing Toy! -- but surely it's educational?
- I'm not hitman! -- Student orders mp3 player, recieves gun -- perhaps to deal with the RIAA agents?
- Magic 8-Ball Tech Support -- The new tool for oursourced tech support everywhere!
- And Finally...
- More E3 Booth Babes here, here, and here.
- Evolution - blame it on the ladies. Okay, not quite.
- Come Out Andy -- Your time was up 20 years ago. A party for Kaufman, just incase he's not really dead.
- More E3 Booth Babes here, here, and here.
Well, that's it for now. More later, if you think you can stand it.
--YLFM
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Saturday, May 15, 2004
European Football - again!
posted by mmChronic @ 6:46:00 PM
W00t! Newcastle have scraped into Europe thanks to the defeat of Villa by Man U and by clinching a point at Anfield courtesy of a Shola goal. OK, it's not the Champions League place that was still possible a couple of games ago but it's certainly better than it looked this morning before the game started.
We might even go one better this season and get to the final and win it. Blind optimism for the 2004-2005 season starts right here. Oh and don't forget to cheer on Crystal Palace on Monday night.
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W00t! Newcastle have scraped into Europe thanks to the defeat of Villa by Man U and by clinching a point at Anfield courtesy of a Shola goal. OK, it's not the Champions League place that was still possible a couple of games ago but it's certainly better than it looked this morning before the game started.
We might even go one better this season and get to the final and win it. Blind optimism for the 2004-2005 season starts right here. Oh and don't forget to cheer on Crystal Palace on Monday night.
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Satada Afternoon Compendium
posted by Merg @ 2:40:00 PM
Too lazy to do this lot in separate posts 'cause I gotta get moving... If they've been posted before... well, tough :p There appears to be a lack of a search option currently.
That's our afternoon mini-roundup. And now over to mmChronic. mm? MM?? Heeeellloooooo?
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Too lazy to do this lot in separate posts 'cause I gotta get moving... If they've been posted before... well, tough :p There appears to be a lack of a search option currently.
- First up: Especially for Bungers, a French Kiss. And I'm sure he'll enjoy it enough to use the "replay" function!
- Secondly, here's the IE6.5 preview as featured in the upcoming XP SP2 -- no, really!
- Last, but not least, the very Jerry Springer "Hospital Took Part Of My Skull And Now They Won't Give It Back" story. As they say, "Only In America". Or Poland. Or...
That's our afternoon mini-roundup. And now over to mmChronic. mm? MM?? Heeeellloooooo?
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One for me
posted by mmChronic @ 11:55:00 AM
...and Bungers too. The next Zelda has been announced and it looks amazing. Remember the realistic looking one they were working on for Wind Waker before they changed the engine to a cel shaded job? It looks like that - but even better!
Full Nintendo drool inducing goodness here with screenshots and a QT video (2Mb for Bungers, 17Mb for everyone else!) - RCSABB.
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...and Bungers too. The next Zelda has been announced and it looks amazing. Remember the realistic looking one they were working on for Wind Waker before they changed the engine to a cel shaded job? It looks like that - but even better!
Full Nintendo drool inducing goodness here with screenshots and a QT video (2Mb for Bungers, 17Mb for everyone else!) - RCSABB.
via 0xDECAFBAD
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Victoria Tunnel
posted by mmChronic @ 11:03:00 AM
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To whet your appetites for the upcoming Victoria Tunnel report here's the first picture.
Bungers, I'll email the pics to your gmail account in a minute.
Bungers, I'll email the pics to your gmail account in a minute.
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One for the ladies...
posted by mmChronic @ 10:07:00 AM
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To redress the balance after the multi E3 booth babes posting here's a collection of pictures of the E3 booth blokes.
via BoingBoing
via BoingBoing
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All your 802.11 Networks...
posted by Merg @ 9:16:00 AM
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Yet another 802.11 flaw discovered -- this time not one of data integrity, but of a relatively trivial DoS attack. It almost makes me glad I can't afford the wireless kit...
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The RIAA Lied?
posted by Merg @ 8:54:00 AM
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Lies, damned lies and statistics?
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Patently Obvious
posted by Merg @ 8:44:00 AM
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It looks like the Germans will be blocking the latest round of Software Patents -- I guess companies will have to actually employ programmers now, instead of lawyers, in order to turn a profit. Maybe.
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E3 DD
posted by Merg @ 8:01:00 AM
E3:
Girlie show with a few video games, or video games show with quite a few booth babes as a cheap sales ploy?
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E3:
Girlie show with a few video games, or video games show with quite a few booth babes as a cheap sales ploy?
In an effort to dsicover the facts, and for your viewing pleasure, we present the evidence.
Some of the "punters" appear to think they're meeting memebers of an alien species... and Gary Coleman.
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Starstruck?
posted by Merg @ 7:08:00 AM
Next up, more Toon -- this time the allegedly "Starstruck" Mr. Kieron Dyer, as featured on this Sunday's Football Diaries -- Sunday, 9pm, BBC2.
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Next up, more Toon -- this time the allegedly "Starstruck" Mr. Kieron Dyer, as featured on this Sunday's Football Diaries -- Sunday, 9pm, BBC2.
Apparently, the "starstruck" comments are upon meeting WWE "Wrestlers", rather than actual sportsmen (despite what the BBC says) -- and given that response to a bunch of minor actors, one wonders how he feels each time he plays on the same field as a certain Number 9...
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Independent Thinkers?
posted by Merg @ 6:32:00 AM
More footy from The Independent -- this time an editorial on the subject of Fat Fred™ -- one I don't completely agree with, but makes some interesting points.
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More footy from The Independent -- this time an editorial on the subject of Fat Fred™ -- one I don't completely agree with, but makes some interesting points.
Brought to you by the "Campaign To Bring Back Boxes, Get An Offishul Toon Icon, And Stop ILuvNUFC Complaining I Don't Post". CtBBGaOTIaSICIDP WILL SUCCEED!
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Friday, May 14, 2004
Jesus action figures
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:41:00 PM
Are you're children in need of some spiritual guidance? Then replace their Action Man and Star Wars action figures with these - JESUS CHRIST ACTION FIGURE TV COMMERCIAL
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Are you're children in need of some spiritual guidance? Then replace their Action Man and Star Wars action figures with these - JESUS CHRIST ACTION FIGURE TV COMMERCIAL
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Tony Blair
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 6:02:00 PM
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This site has a little more on TB's visit.Check Tyne-Tees news now for more. Tyne Tees TV
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World Exclusive!!!
posted by mmChronic @ 3:46:00 PM
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Apparently my daughter's school (Hotspur Primary, Newcastle) has had a visit from Tony Blair today. We were told it was going to be someone from the education ministry but that was a security coverup thing. More to follow as soon as I get some details.
EDIT: Stuff popping up all over the place now.
EDIT 2: I've now seen my daughter and it seems Blair is scared to face questions from primary school kids now. Only selected pupils were allowed to ask questions, and those questions had been given to them by teachers, who presumably received them from the spin people. My daughter wasn't one of those selected - which is probably just as well as she wanted to ask him why we were doing what we are doing in Iraq.
EDIT: Stuff popping up all over the place now.
EDIT 2: I've now seen my daughter and it seems Blair is scared to face questions from primary school kids now. Only selected pupils were allowed to ask questions, and those questions had been given to them by teachers, who presumably received them from the spin people. My daughter wasn't one of those selected - which is probably just as well as she wanted to ask him why we were doing what we are doing in Iraq.
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Friday game
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 3:40:00 PM
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You could forget Tiger's golf and play Pandaf Golf. Pandaf Golf
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BT announces massive drops in ADSL charges!!!
posted by mmChronic @ 2:12:00 PM
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If you have ADSL broadband in this country then you are running on BT ADSL regardless of your ISP. Well BT have just announced a 70% drop in the pricing! Yay!
Sounds good? Well you're wrong! The price drop is in wholesale prices i.e. the price that BT sell it to Wanadoo etc. & very little if any will be passed on to you. Boo!
Almost makes you wish you lived in a cabled area for the 'free 50% extra' upgrade that Telewest have announced. Oh - I do. Yay!
via Mergs - this time via the medium of ectoplasm scrawled across my wall.
Sounds good? Well you're wrong! The price drop is in wholesale prices i.e. the price that BT sell it to Wanadoo etc. & very little if any will be passed on to you. Boo!
Almost makes you wish you lived in a cabled area for the 'free 50% extra' upgrade that Telewest have announced. Oh - I do. Yay!
via Mergs - this time via the medium of ectoplasm scrawled across my wall.
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God will do for me
posted by mmChronic @ 1:40:00 PM
More football related shizzle. Bruce isn't coming to the toon (YAY!!!!!!) and Shearer has just passed his UEFA B coaching badges. This second fact was buried in a story about NUFC's finances which include this quote:
How the fsck do I get a job as an expert? State the bleeding obvious, get paid lots. Sounds ideal to me. In other news Dyer says it is all his fault. Well him and the rest of the players who couldn't be arsed to earn their wages this season.
Submitted by Mergs via ouija board.
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More football related shizzle. Bruce isn't coming to the toon (YAY!!!!!!) and Shearer has just passed his UEFA B coaching badges. This second fact was buried in a story about NUFC's finances which include this quote:
"Sir Bobby Robson's hopes of strengthening his Newcastle squad with big money signings have been seriously damaged by his failure to secure Champions League football, a financial expert said last night."
How the fsck do I get a job as an expert? State the bleeding obvious, get paid lots. Sounds ideal to me. In other news Dyer says it is all his fault. Well him and the rest of the players who couldn't be arsed to earn their wages this season.
Submitted by Mergs via ouija board.
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P-P-P-Powerbook
posted by mmChronic @ 11:38:00 AM
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This is excellent. An American seller on eBay realised a European buyer was trying to rip him off so he decided to scam the scammer. Read this for details of how he made the scammer pay a fortune in custom fees for nowt. We need Bungers' report on scamming a 419'er as well as his Victoria tunnel report. Is there anything else we don't want reports written on? Bung details at Bungers. :)
via BoingBoing
via BoingBoing
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Friday Games
posted by mmChronic @ 11:10:00 AM
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Home of the Underdogs is a site dedicated to preserving old PC games along with tutorials for getting DOS based shizzle running under XP. An excellent chance to remind yourself how crap the PC actually was at gaming a few years ago!
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via linkfilter
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Faked abuse photo's from Iraq
posted by mmChronic @ 9:52:00 AM
No, not the Mirror's probable fakes. The Boston Globe ran explicit pictures which were allegedly of female Iraqi prisoners being sexually abused - except they happened to be pictures from a pr0n site. Link goes to story about the the paper rather than the pr0n site - I'm sure dogs will furnish us with that link real soon now.
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No, not the Mirror's probable fakes. The Boston Globe ran explicit pictures which were allegedly of female Iraqi prisoners being sexually abused - except they happened to be pictures from a pr0n site. Link goes to story about the the paper rather than the pr0n site - I'm sure dogs will furnish us with that link real soon now.
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Duffers Golf
posted by mmChronic @ 7:22:00 AM
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So you have the the money for one game and you can't choose between UT2004
& Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (Xbox,PS2). Which do you buy? UT2004 for it's sweet, death action or Tiger Woods for it's sweet, hitting a ball with a stick, silly trousers and stupid hat wearing action. Or something.
New Links advice? Buy UT2004, download the Duffers Golf mod and you are off. If only our Commercial Manager had let me in on the secret of Amazon Linkage we could have been rich by now! Only 2 of the biggest selling games of the year mentioned in one post.
EDIT: Now with added commercial, whorin' tackiness.
& Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (Xbox,PS2). Which do you buy? UT2004 for it's sweet, death action or Tiger Woods for it's sweet, hitting a ball with a stick, silly trousers and stupid hat wearing action. Or something.
New Links advice? Buy UT2004, download the Duffers Golf mod and you are off. If only our Commercial Manager had let me in on the secret of Amazon Linkage we could have been rich by now! Only 2 of the biggest selling games of the year mentioned in one post.
EDIT: Now with added commercial, whorin' tackiness.
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
One for the Ladies
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 11:11:00 PM
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Remembering Lisa's comments the other day, Is this what you want? :)
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Southampton 3 Newcastle 3
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:37:00 PM
Newcastle are to miss out on the Champion's League and possibly the UEFA cup after another draw away from St. James. Here is God's, Gary Speed's, Shay Given's, Howay the Toon.com's and Bobby Robson's versions of last nights events.The game marked the debut of the Southampton goalie who had a brilliant game making a few good saves and denied God with a point-blank header.
In Saturday's game at Liverpool, who head for Europe's elite, we are forced into Last Chance Saloon, and we must go all out for a win, Bobby is ready to risk Dyer
In other Toon news Birminghan laugh off Bruce rumours, Viana wants to leave, Bowyer says he would like to keep his place in the middle, Newcastle bid for Mills and Smith and Dyer's fitness is key for Sven.
Sorry if it is a bit late im sure it was worth the wait.
Looking forward to your Victoria Tunnel report tomorrow, Bungers
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Newcastle are to miss out on the Champion's League and possibly the UEFA cup after another draw away from St. James. Here is God's, Gary Speed's, Shay Given's, Howay the Toon.com's and Bobby Robson's versions of last nights events.The game marked the debut of the Southampton goalie who had a brilliant game making a few good saves and denied God with a point-blank header.
In Saturday's game at Liverpool, who head for Europe's elite, we are forced into Last Chance Saloon, and we must go all out for a win, Bobby is ready to risk Dyer
In other Toon news Birminghan laugh off Bruce rumours, Viana wants to leave, Bowyer says he would like to keep his place in the middle, Newcastle bid for Mills and Smith and Dyer's fitness is key for Sven.
Sorry if it is a bit late im sure it was worth the wait.
Looking forward to your Victoria Tunnel report tomorrow, Bungers
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New Feature
posted by mmChronic @ 8:14:00 PM
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I've just hacked together some new comment code to work with Blogger's new commenting system so you can see erm.. how many new comments there are on a post. At the minute it returns a pretty plain looking new comment bit but it's easy enough to put a flashing graphic in again.
It could be a bit ropy as it's my first time doing anything with cookies. I used Bill Dortch's public domain code for reading/writing the cookies and a few lines of my code for comparing your stored comment count with the current comment count and displaying something if anything is new.
At the minute every comment count is stored in it's own cookie rather than all values stored in 1 big Newlinks cookie and I haven't set a cookie expiry date (naughty) but I'll do those bits next. I figured get something up at least for now and worry about the hackiness later. It won't blow your PC up. Probably.
If anyone reads this and wants the code on your own site feel free to use it - Disclaimer: at your own risk. Please let us know if you do though. Once I've got code I'm totally happy with I'll put it somewhere for download with some install info.
It could be a bit ropy as it's my first time doing anything with cookies. I used Bill Dortch's public domain code for reading/writing the cookies and a few lines of my code for comparing your stored comment count with the current comment count and displaying something if anything is new.
At the minute every comment count is stored in it's own cookie rather than all values stored in 1 big Newlinks cookie and I haven't set a cookie expiry date (naughty) but I'll do those bits next. I figured get something up at least for now and worry about the hackiness later. It won't blow your PC up. Probably.
If anyone reads this and wants the code on your own site feel free to use it - Disclaimer: at your own risk. Please let us know if you do though. Once I've got code I'm totally happy with I'll put it somewhere for download with some install info.
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Follow up: Sony VaiPod thing
posted by mmChronic @ 6:12:00 PM
Some more info from BoingBoing about how Sony's entertainment business is killing its electronics business as mentioned here. I knew I'd read it somewhere...
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Some more info from BoingBoing about how Sony's entertainment business is killing its electronics business as mentioned here. I knew I'd read it somewhere...
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One for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 4:46:00 PM
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Colouring in? That's for kids.
Your modern day urban, trendy youth wouldn't be caught dead with a colouring book - they'd be doing this instead when they want some hot colour on colour action. There's your New Links compo for the week - best pic wins ermm.. um.... er... a 2 for the price of 1 ticket for the Gate valid until May 29th. Beats the shite out of winning every console ever or something! ;)
Entries must be in by Monday 17th May.
Your modern day urban, trendy youth wouldn't be caught dead with a colouring book - they'd be doing this instead when they want some hot colour on colour action. There's your New Links compo for the week - best pic wins ermm.. um.... er... a 2 for the price of 1 ticket for the Gate valid until May 29th. Beats the shite out of winning every console ever or something! ;)
Entries must be in by Monday 17th May.
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One for mm Chronic...
posted by bungers @ 4:25:00 PM
Behold... THE OMEGA COLLECTION
Also, check out the Dr. Raven colouring contest (second story down). Some people used crayons. Some people did this.
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Behold... THE OMEGA COLLECTION
Also, check out the Dr. Raven colouring contest (second story down). Some people used crayons. Some people did this.
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NewLinks day out
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 4:15:00 PM
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The Sundlind reserve game is on tonight.I found out yesterday and forgot to post.Sorry.
Anyone up for it? Clicky here for more
Anyone up for it? Clicky here for more
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Sony Vaio Pocket is new iPod rival...
posted by bungers @ 3:37:00 PM
No picture, but it is rumoured to have a colour, touch sensitive screen and a 20 hour battery life. Will cost lots of money. Read all about it here.
Engadget has some really good E3 coverage today. You should check it out. It's got lots of shots of the Nintendo DS.
And they've also got this. I want!
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No picture, but it is rumoured to have a colour, touch sensitive screen and a 20 hour battery life. Will cost lots of money. Read all about it here. Engadget has some really good E3 coverage today. You should check it out. It's got lots of shots of the Nintendo DS.
And they've also got this. I want!
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Library of Alexandria discovered
posted by mmChronic @ 2:15:00 PM
The BBC is reporting that the Library of Alexandria has been discovered. Will be closed by local council due to funding shortfalls. Probably.
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The BBC is reporting that the Library of Alexandria has been discovered. Will be closed by local council due to funding shortfalls. Probably.
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Brutally Honest Personals
posted by mmChronic @ 2:09:00 PM
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Looking for a partner but sick of the all the untruths in personal ads? e.g. Cuddly = Bariatric, Bubbly = Irritating, GSOH = I know a chicken joke etc etc. Well this personal ad site could be for you - Brutally Honest Personals.
SEXUAL HABITS:
"Can be summed up simply: brief digital, extended oral, premature genital. I have herpes."
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SciToys
posted by mmChronic @ 11:52:00 AM
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SciToys has details on how to make toys demonstrating various scientific principles. They say they are for children but we'll have no age discrimination here! I'm off to make a Hydrogen Bomb so New Links can join the Big 5 on the UN security council.
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Follow up : I'm off for a soapy car wash...
posted by bungers @ 10:43:00 AM
... and maybe they'll be wearing the itsy bitsy, strapless, gravity-defying bikini as detailed in today's Telegraph! Hmm.. they seem to like a bit of smut. I wonder if they review blogs.... ;)
via Spinneyhead again.
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... and maybe they'll be wearing the itsy bitsy, strapless, gravity-defying bikini as detailed in today's Telegraph! Hmm.. they seem to like a bit of smut. I wonder if they review blogs.... ;)via Spinneyhead again.
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Presenting....
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 10:28:00 AM
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The valve cap remover. Reemco - Valve Cap Removers (TM) :)
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Another one for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 10:26:00 AM
...this one involves cars and laydees. A new car wash called Babe Wash has opened in glamourous Salford staffed by bikini clad babes. That's like lapdancing with added soap suds and your car gets cleaned to boot.
via Spinneyhead (who reckons it's for sad men but I reckon we won't see Bungers looking sad in any way at all!)
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...this one involves cars and laydees. A new car wash called Babe Wash has opened in glamourous Salford staffed by bikini clad babes. That's like lapdancing with added soap suds and your car gets cleaned to boot.
via Spinneyhead (who reckons it's for sad men but I reckon we won't see Bungers looking sad in any way at all!)
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One for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 10:11:00 AM
Do you have multiple iPods? Apart from trying to scrounge one of yours for the New Linkers to share I'll point you in the direction of this multi-iPod carry bag from Fendi. It only holds 12 though so you may want to wait for the House of New Links iPod bag, cunningly converted from a Netto carrier bag, as it will hold about 50.
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Do you have multiple iPods? Apart from trying to scrounge one of yours for the New Linkers to share I'll point you in the direction of this multi-iPod carry bag from Fendi. It only holds 12 though so you may want to wait for the House of New Links iPod bag, cunningly converted from a Netto carrier bag, as it will hold about 50.
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They're Here -- Cicada Cycle Fascinates U.S.
posted by bungers @ 9:34:00 AM
Follow up - Brood x continues to emerge all over the states so here are some pictures and more information about the ugly little buggers.
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Follow up - Brood x continues to emerge all over the states so here are some pictures and more information about the ugly little buggers.
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First PSP Picture
posted by mmChronic @ 8:23:00 AM
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After the first pictures of the DS the other day the 1st picture of a PSP emerges from E3.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Blogger comments
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 7:02:00 PM
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The Blogger comments are down. Again. Haloscan working. That's 3-2 to Blogger.
My comment was to be :- Yes they still have flocks of Norwegian, Swedish and Japanese tourists visiting Byker.But only in the daytime. :)
My comment was to be :- Yes they still have flocks of Norwegian, Swedish and Japanese tourists visiting Byker.But only in the daytime. :)
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Google announces GMail...
posted by mmChronic @ 6:16:00 PM
...and the fact that New Links tops Google for a search once again! Yay!
The search term? Byker Cully. Checking the other results reveals very little in the way of information on Byker Cully except for an explanation of what cully means and a mention in passing with good pictures of what the Ouseburn valley looks like now and as it did in 1961. Check that one out as it has lots of pictures of Byker including the ex-cinema-with-embedded-half-mini which has been replaced by a Morrisons store.
But there's certainly nothing as comprehensive as the New Links Offical Byker Culvert Tour Report which I guess makes us the world's premier source of Byker Cully info. Note to Commercial Manager: We'll be needing t-shirts. :)
Another interesting page caught my eye in the results - this one is about the Byker Wall, the world famous architectural landmark(?). Apparently it was one of the "first major attempts in Britain to create a dialogue between community and architecture". I remember groups of architecture students getting tours around the Wall years ago. There was even a documentary crew once that we showed around and scrounged tabs (Note to our non-native English speaking readers: tabs = fags... erm make that tabs = cigarettes!) off. I wonder if they still come and see it now?
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...and the fact that New Links tops Google for a search once again! Yay!
The search term? Byker Cully. Checking the other results reveals very little in the way of information on Byker Cully except for an explanation of what cully means and a mention in passing with good pictures of what the Ouseburn valley looks like now and as it did in 1961. Check that one out as it has lots of pictures of Byker including the ex-cinema-with-embedded-half-mini which has been replaced by a Morrisons store.
But there's certainly nothing as comprehensive as the New Links Offical Byker Culvert Tour Report which I guess makes us the world's premier source of Byker Cully info. Note to Commercial Manager: We'll be needing t-shirts. :)
Another interesting page caught my eye in the results - this one is about the Byker Wall, the world famous architectural landmark(?). Apparently it was one of the "first major attempts in Britain to create a dialogue between community and architecture". I remember groups of architecture students getting tours around the Wall years ago. There was even a documentary crew once that we showed around and scrounged tabs (Note to our non-native English speaking readers: tabs = fags... erm make that tabs = cigarettes!) off. I wonder if they still come and see it now?
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Normal service is resumed
posted by mmChronic @ 4:36:00 PM
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The forklift video is working again - grab it while it's hot.
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It's that rainbow thing again...
posted by bungers @ 2:27:00 PM
...but this time it's in a shorter 2.3Mb version, rather than the 16Mb monster from before. I can't remember if we've already had this, so I've pre-empted the slanging with a history icon.
Rainbow Rudeness.
via the legendary Sir Ian von Stonehausen.
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...but this time it's in a shorter 2.3Mb version, rather than the 16Mb monster from before. I can't remember if we've already had this, so I've pre-empted the slanging with a history icon. Rainbow Rudeness.
via the legendary Sir Ian von Stonehausen.
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Ooh look - Haloscan down AGAIN...
posted by mmChronic @ 1:28:00 PM
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No commenting available on See Here / Look At This (world's 1st schizoblog) or Space Hardware atm - which is making them very slow to load as the page goes off looking for Haloscan stuff, decides eventually it can't find it and carries on with the rest. It was down at least 3 times yesterday too. How many times has Blogger's comments been down in the same time? That'll be zero. Yay for Blogger!
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Reasons to run away #467854268...
posted by bungers @ 12:58:00 PM
Mexican Air Force Pilots Film 11 UFOs. I for one, welcome our new menacing overlords.
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Mexican Air Force Pilots Film 11 UFOs. I for one, welcome our new menacing overlords.
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Check out this gem...
posted by bungers @ 12:29:00 PM
You might not've seen this in the daily comic link, but I think I've found my new chat up line. Parp!
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You might not've seen this in the daily comic link, but I think I've found my new chat up line. Parp!
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Tortoises, Venus, and Uranus...
posted by bungers @ 10:13:00 AM
Speaking of tortoises, I'd started writing this post yesterday, but kind of lost interest. That's not a very good start for my daily blog is it? But I promise you, it gets better!
Anyways, this post is all about a "massive upcoming TV event". Probably not on the same scale as Live Aid. Or even the National Lottery, or whatever it is they call it these days. Anyway, for all you SpaceFans™, here's some interesting information (if you like that kind of thing) about the up and coming Transit of Venus.
Apparantly, nobody alive has ever seen it, but I'd wager some of those really old, massive tortoises on the Galapagos Islands remember it. This astronomical event last happened in 1882 and will be shown in a one-hour special on BBC Two. The show will be hosted by another NewLinks Favorite Crusty "one for the ladies" TV Presenter™ Adam Hart-Davis. He's the bloke responsible for the dreadful, but watchableMystery Science Theatre 3000 Science Shack, and the equally reprehensible, but hypnotically compelling Rough Science.
As Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth on the morning of the 8th of June 2004, BBC cameras will be at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and other locations around the country where amateur and professional astronomers witness this bi-curious phenomenon, not seen for 122 years.
In preparation for the stellar spectacular, BBC Two will screen a half-hour prequel spectacular on Saturday 5 June at 5pm as an introduction to the main programme. It will show viewers how to see the transit safely and effectively, and will preview some of the many public events round the country where telescopes will be set up to let people see this extraordinary stellar event. If it wasn't on a Tuesday we could've had another candidate for a Newlinks trip!
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Speaking of tortoises, I'd started writing this post yesterday, but kind of lost interest. That's not a very good start for my daily blog is it? But I promise you, it gets better!
Anyways, this post is all about a "massive upcoming TV event". Probably not on the same scale as Live Aid. Or even the National Lottery, or whatever it is they call it these days. Anyway, for all you SpaceFans™, here's some interesting information (if you like that kind of thing) about the up and coming Transit of Venus.
Apparantly, nobody alive has ever seen it, but I'd wager some of those really old, massive tortoises on the Galapagos Islands remember it. This astronomical event last happened in 1882 and will be shown in a one-hour special on BBC Two. The show will be hosted by another NewLinks Favorite Crusty "one for the ladies" TV Presenter™ Adam Hart-Davis. He's the bloke responsible for the dreadful, but watchable
As Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth on the morning of the 8th of June 2004, BBC cameras will be at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and other locations around the country where amateur and professional astronomers witness this bi-curious phenomenon, not seen for 122 years.
In preparation for the stellar spectacular, BBC Two will screen a half-hour prequel spectacular on Saturday 5 June at 5pm as an introduction to the main programme. It will show viewers how to see the transit safely and effectively, and will preview some of the many public events round the country where telescopes will be set up to let people see this extraordinary stellar event. If it wasn't on a Tuesday we could've had another candidate for a Newlinks trip!
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George RIP
posted by Dogs @ 9:25:00 AM
As our country seems prone to public mass outpourings of grief these days, I expect a minute silence before the Toon kick off tonight. George, the Blue Peter tortoise, has finally passed away.
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As our country seems prone to public mass outpourings of grief these days, I expect a minute silence before the Toon kick off tonight. George, the Blue Peter tortoise, has finally passed away.
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One for Hippy Tony
posted by mmChronic @ 9:06:00 AM
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While Tony is learning how to drive a fork lift he must remember at all times they can be very dangerous. So as an educational service New Links provides a German forklift safety video. This starts off very slowly but persevere until the end - it gets very gory (in a comedy fashion - if you've seen Peter Jackson's early zombie films you will know what to expect), very quickly.
via Kottke.org.
via Kottke.org.
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Play Monkey Trouble
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:56:00 AM
A brill puzzle game with added Monkey goodness.Play Monkey Trouble
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A brill puzzle game with added Monkey goodness.Play Monkey Trouble
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Word association
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:39:00 AM
Remember that game Mallet's mallet with that annoying twunt? Try this word association game and recreate kids TV in your office/living room.YAY!
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Remember that game Mallet's mallet with that annoying twunt? Try this word association game and recreate kids TV in your office/living room.YAY!
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The SubGenius; Brag Generator
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 8:19:00 AM
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The SubGenius; Brag Generator
Mine? OK here it is.
*Yip, yip, YEEEEEEE!* *Teat Blowout*! Even in the belly of the Thunderbird I've been casting out the sons of God and man; I'm busting my brow and blowing my O-ring, and ripe to throw a *loaf*! Even in the belly of the Thunderbird I've been casting out the space monsters; I'm busting my arm-vein and blowing my O-ring, and ripe to throw a *loaf*! I'll freeze *your* sweat before it hits the bathroom tile! I'm a human being of the *first* god damn water, I am Not Insane! I'm *radioactive*!
Mine? OK here it is.
*Yip, yip, YEEEEEEE!* *Teat Blowout*! Even in the belly of the Thunderbird I've been casting out the sons of God and man; I'm busting my brow and blowing my O-ring, and ripe to throw a *loaf*! Even in the belly of the Thunderbird I've been casting out the space monsters; I'm busting my arm-vein and blowing my O-ring, and ripe to throw a *loaf*! I'll freeze *your* sweat before it hits the bathroom tile! I'm a human being of the *first* god damn water, I am Not Insane! I'm *radioactive*!
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Star Wars Asciimation
posted by mmChronic @ 11:20:00 PM
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More ASCII anim goodness. This time it's not video digitised to ASCII like Deep ASCII. It's a plain old ASCII anim (done in Flash!?) and it's Star Wars.
via Spinneyhead.
via Spinneyhead.
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Presenting...
Presenting....
posted by Dogs @ 9:43:00 PM
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The Sneaky Leaker. It's your god given right.
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Daily Comics?
posted by mmChronic @ 9:35:00 PM
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I think this makes our Comics panel in the sidebar redundant. This page seems to have every daily strip on it. It is obviously very graphic heavy but there is no extra shizzle at all (ads, sidebars, anything) so it still loads fairly quickly. Of course with my upcoming free extra broadband goodness it'll load even quicker.
A few of the strips (even a version of Dilbert) are in what appears to be Dutch so they'll be handy for brushing up on the lingo for New Links Goes Dutch Tour that Bunger's is planning to Amsterdam and/or Willy Dobbe's hometown. Why can I never get on that site? It nearly always comes up "page can't be displayed" here.
via Ultimate Insult
A few of the strips (even a version of Dilbert) are in what appears to be Dutch so they'll be handy for brushing up on the lingo for New Links Goes Dutch Tour that Bunger's is planning to Amsterdam and/or Willy Dobbe's hometown. Why can I never get on that site? It nearly always comes up "page can't be displayed" here.
via Ultimate Insult
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Presenting...
posted by Dogs @ 9:19:00 PM
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The Tiggler. Vibrating barbell? One assumes that you need a piercing in a painful place before you can use it. If that tickles your fancy fnar fnar then you may also be interested in the VibeRider. SFW kindof. If you have an understanding boss who appreciates that sexual needs are an integral part of all decent equal opportunities policies.
Doh! A bad day for Grauniad aspirations.
Doh! A bad day for Grauniad aspirations.
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Generation X - that's us NewLinkers.
posted by Dogs @ 8:58:00 PM
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Or is ILuvNUFC still a wee Generation Y bairn? I think NewLinks should seriously consider getting into the lucrative Trend Spotting market. According to Susan Saurage-Altenloh, who gets paid a lot of money for her fascinating insights into what we like, us Generation Xers (27-39 years old) tend to be industrious, smart, independent, savers and volunteers. We serve as the computer experts for our families. We enjoy ads with dry wit, self-awareness, clear and informative communications and a sophisticated Internet presence.
That will be £3000 pounds please.
That will be £3000 pounds please.
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Take a look at...
posted by Dogs @ 8:41:00 PM
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The Best Pictures of 2003. According to somebody.
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If you've played Unreal Tournament...
posted by Dogs @ 8:34:00 PM
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THen you'll appreciate this movie.
There's also an offer to try out some "spamfighter" software which sounds good in theory but I'm just too paranoid to trust anything these days.
There's also an offer to try out some "spamfighter" software which sounds good in theory but I'm just too paranoid to trust anything these days.
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Japanese is great
posted by Dogs @ 8:28:00 PM
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Here's a fine example of Japanese female culture
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Fiendish Invention
posted by Dogs @ 8:24:00 PM
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Ever get cheesed off with someone always nicking your favourite cup at work? If so, you need one of these.
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Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 6:20:00 PM
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All you're favourite books from Peter Pan to Pride and Prejudice are online here.
Another quality link from NewLinks.It should'nt be long until we are in the Grauniad. :-)
Another quality link from NewLinks.It should'nt be long until we are in the Grauniad. :-)
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Halo 2
posted by mmChronic @ 3:42:00 PM
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Halo 2's release date has been announced - November 9th this year. To accompany the announcement a whole new slew of screen shots have been released.
I'm off to put myself into suspended animation until November 8th.
EDIT The Newlinks Recommends™ Commercial Manager has just reminded me we should be promoting this one. Get your copy of Halo 2 for £29.99 with a prerelease date of October 22nd. Bugger - I'd better go and reset my defrost timer then.
I'm off to put myself into suspended animation until November 8th.
EDIT The Newlinks Recommends™ Commercial Manager has just reminded me we should be promoting this one. Get your copy of Halo 2 for £29.99 with a prerelease date of October 22nd. Bugger - I'd better go and reset my defrost timer then.
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Ooh shiny
posted by mmChronic @ 1:36:00 PM
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First picture of the DS from Nintendo. The article also mentions something about the touch screen part of it - a Mario game has you drawing clouds with the stylus and these clouds slow down Mario's falling rate.
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The Misunderestimated Man
posted by mmChronic @ 1:06:00 PM
Choose Jesus. Choose to be Prez. Choose to evade National Service. Choose a dysfunctional family. Choose a fucking big army, choose oil supplies, SUVs, Patriot missile systems and depleted uranium ammo. Choose shit economy, cheap Mexican labour, and outsourcing. Choose to ignore the Kyoto agreement. Choose the White House. Choose Rumsfield, Cheney & Rove. Choose cowboy clothes and denims. Choose a country to invade and still deny basic freedoms. Choose the RIAA and wondering why the fucking music costs so much. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, Evangelist shows, stuffing fucking pretzels into your mouth. Choose praying with Tony Blair. Choose retiring at the end of it all, enjoying your last in a luxury home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up voters who put you in, in the first place. Choose stupidity.
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Choose Jesus. Choose to be Prez. Choose to evade National Service. Choose a dysfunctional family. Choose a fucking big army, choose oil supplies, SUVs, Patriot missile systems and depleted uranium ammo. Choose shit economy, cheap Mexican labour, and outsourcing. Choose to ignore the Kyoto agreement. Choose the White House. Choose Rumsfield, Cheney & Rove. Choose cowboy clothes and denims. Choose a country to invade and still deny basic freedoms. Choose the RIAA and wondering why the fucking music costs so much. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, Evangelist shows, stuffing fucking pretzels into your mouth. Choose praying with Tony Blair. Choose retiring at the end of it all, enjoying your last in a luxury home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up voters who put you in, in the first place. Choose stupidity.
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N.M. to Host Private Spaceflight Race
posted by bungers @ 10:48:00 AM
Seems that New Mexico has been chosen to host the X-Plane Spaceflight Race. It's also hot favorite for the location of any future SpacePort. Cool.
Shamelessly pinched from Yahoo news
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Seems that New Mexico has been chosen to host the X-Plane Spaceflight Race. It's also hot favorite for the location of any future SpacePort. Cool. Shamelessly pinched from Yahoo news
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Possible New Features
posted by mmChronic @ 9:26:00 AM
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After a look at the way Blogger does comment counts etc I reckon I should be able to know knock up a new comments thing like we used to have. I'll try and write this sometime this week.
I just noticed the new profile malarkey on Blogger which is quite cool. If you go to your settings and allow public profiles your name on comments can be clicked on to give information proving you are addicted to blogging. You get info showing total number of posts, number of words, average posts a week and a page of your last few posts.
Bungers, remind me to discuss Newlinks Recommends™ with you today at lunchtime. I have an idea!
I just noticed the new profile malarkey on Blogger which is quite cool. If you go to your settings and allow public profiles your name on comments can be clicked on to give information proving you are addicted to blogging. You get info showing total number of posts, number of words, average posts a week and a page of your last few posts.
Bungers, remind me to discuss Newlinks Recommends™ with you today at lunchtime. I have an idea!
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CD Rot
posted by mmChronic @ 8:20:00 AM
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Have you backed up your backups? Offsite some of us have discussed the way CDs rot and here is an article about the phenomenon. Apparently even the same brand may not be consistently durable. The way they are manufactured constantly changes which leads to differences in lifespans of what is outwardly the same disc. Some advice for storage from the article:
So the teetering pile of 83 CDs beside my monitor isn't a good idea?
"For maximum longevity, discs should be stored vertically and only be handled by the edges. Don't stick labels on them, and in the case of write-once CDs, don't write on them with anything but soft water-based or alcohol-based markers."
So the teetering pile of 83 CDs beside my monitor isn't a good idea?
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Monday, May 10, 2004
One for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 7:56:00 PM
No iPod, Paris or miscellaneous b00b15s this time. Just a line to say the comics bit is back in the sidebar. And do you really want Captain Arrr in the list? It doesn't seem to have been updated since October 12th, last year.
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No iPod, Paris or miscellaneous b00b15s this time. Just a line to say the comics bit is back in the sidebar. And do you really want Captain Arrr in the list? It doesn't seem to have been updated since October 12th, last year.
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Stop Eating Poop
posted by mmChronic @ 6:27:00 PM
Do you have an unhealthy addiction to eating poop? Then you need "Stop Eating Poop". Read the glowing reviews with lines like:
If only I'd asked Bungers for details of his Newlinks Recommends™ scheme we could have been onto a financial winner linking to this.
via Bifurcated Rivets.
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Do you have an unhealthy addiction to eating poop? Then you need "Stop Eating Poop". Read the glowing reviews with lines like:
"Betty has stopped her poop- eating ways, my children have lost their taste for it, and my cats are relieved that their turds are no longer being burgled."
If only I'd asked Bungers for details of his Newlinks Recommends™ scheme we could have been onto a financial winner linking to this.
via Bifurcated Rivets.
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Jesus Nebula
posted by mmChronic @ 6:06:00 PM
NASA released a picture on April 30th, 2002. This site reckons you can see Jesus in the stars and they have called it the Jesus Nebula.
Just as well they provide an animated gif to show you what they can see as I couldn't see him at all. It looks more like an alien bird creature with a transparent cranium, exposing it's brains for the cosmos to see. Of course this could be some sort of stellar Rorschach test and I've just confirmed I have schizophrenia. Or something.
via Presurfer.
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NASA released a picture on April 30th, 2002. This site reckons you can see Jesus in the stars and they have called it the Jesus Nebula.
Just as well they provide an animated gif to show you what they can see as I couldn't see him at all. It looks more like an alien bird creature with a transparent cranium, exposing it's brains for the cosmos to see. Of course this could be some sort of stellar Rorschach test and I've just confirmed I have schizophrenia. Or something.
via Presurfer.
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Gripped in a bariatric nightmare?
posted by mmChronic @ 5:00:00 PM
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Then you need this new pill which targets the blood supply in fat. Or you could do what the rest of us do and stopped eating so much junk.
via boingboing
via boingboing
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Newlinks Recommends...
posted by bungers @ 3:32:00 PM
In a attempt to see if Newlinks can become commercially viable, and support our tunnelling activities we've decided to run a New Feature™ called "Newlinks Recommends...™.
This fabbo new feature lets you buy all the cool stuff that we ramble on about here. So you'll see dvd's, music, gadgets, etc. Aren't we fab?
So here you go, it's the Apple iPod 15GB, and it's £15 cheaper than anywhere else you care to look! Go on, buy it!
If you'd like a tunnel building/excavating we're available at weekends. For now. Bwahahaha!
EDIT : BTw... did I tell you how much I enjoyed the N*E*R*D* album? I did? Well, maybe you should take a listen to the one prior to "Fly or Die". It's called "In Search Of...". And it's only £7 over at Amazon! w00+!!
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In a attempt to see if Newlinks can become commercially viable, and support our tunnelling activities we've decided to run a New Feature™ called "Newlinks Recommends...™. This fabbo new feature lets you buy all the cool stuff that we ramble on about here. So you'll see dvd's, music, gadgets, etc. Aren't we fab?
So here you go, it's the Apple iPod 15GB, and it's £15 cheaper than anywhere else you care to look! Go on, buy it!
If you'd like a tunnel building/excavating we're available at weekends. For now. Bwahahaha!
EDIT : BTw... did I tell you how much I enjoyed the N*E*R*D* album? I did? Well, maybe you should take a listen to the one prior to "Fly or Die". It's called "In Search Of...". And it's only £7 over at Amazon! w00+!!
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What Life of Brian Character are You?
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 2:59:00 PM
You're the Ex-Leper. You're pretty desperate for
money. Basically whoring yourself off to
anyone who'll spare you a talent. You're the
hottest ex-leper I've ever seen. Keep on
wearing as little clothes as possible, and all
will be well.
What Life of Brian Character are You?
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You're the Ex-Leper. You're pretty desperate for
money. Basically whoring yourself off to
anyone who'll spare you a talent. You're the
hottest ex-leper I've ever seen. Keep on
wearing as little clothes as possible, and all
will be well.
What Life of Brian Character are You?
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Missing dogs
Frying Nemo
posted by mmChronic @ 12:01:00 PM
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Latest USB accessory from Japan? That'll be a USB aquarium. It's unclear whether the USB is to provide power for light or for actually cooking the fish.
from Mergs via email (again!)
from Mergs via email (again!)
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Infinity
Hehehehe!
Follow up: Blogger redesign.
posted by mmChronic @ 8:27:00 AM
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I've enabled the comments and single post page as mentioned (very!) early this morning. Click on the comments on of of the last few posts and you will see what the single post page post malarkey looks like. Each post is put on it's own page along with it's comments.
Comments are on automatically for each post - you can turn off comments on one of your own posts through the blogger interface. They are not on our older posts. If you want to enable comments on an earlier post we need to edit the post, choose more options and turn comments on. Word of warning: Our old icon code (the javascript getHTMLForIcon()) is no longer accepted in posts. I'll have to read up on this but it doesn't affect us anyway due to the new icon code I released yesterday. If you edit a post with the old icon code just replace it with the new icon code.
I tried to republish the whole site (creating post pages for all posts retrospectively) but the process keeps timing out due to the number of our posts (1805 in 6 months - woo!) so some pages may be a bit screwy until I get this sorted. We have also lost access to our old comments as I have removed the Haloscan code from the template - unless I do some code that checks to see if there are old comments (via the Haloscan comment count bit) and display a 'read old comments' link where necessary. I probably won't though. :)
I'll need to jig the template about a bit as each post page is currently a copy of the main page (with long sidebar) and is a bit unwieldy. Blogger have intoduced condition tags (Something along the lines of if front page show this, if post page show this) for the templates too so that should be easy.
Talking of templates Blogger have added loads more - they now have 33 to be precise instead of the 6 or 7 they had. Some of them are not bad at all so if your design skills are cack, or unlike us, you care about not releasing a half designed site to the world there should be something for you.
Disappointingly there is no built in search which would have been nice but this is outweighed by the single post page - Google will index the new pages so that when you get a link back it should be to the post page which has it's own URL instead of a single target on a page with hundreds of posts. This should making finding old stuff a lot easier.
First impressions? Woo Yay!!!!!
Comments are on automatically for each post - you can turn off comments on one of your own posts through the blogger interface. They are not on our older posts. If you want to enable comments on an earlier post we need to edit the post, choose more options and turn comments on. Word of warning: Our old icon code (the javascript getHTMLForIcon()) is no longer accepted in posts. I'll have to read up on this but it doesn't affect us anyway due to the new icon code I released yesterday. If you edit a post with the old icon code just replace it with the new icon code.
I tried to republish the whole site (creating post pages for all posts retrospectively) but the process keeps timing out due to the number of our posts (1805 in 6 months - woo!) so some pages may be a bit screwy until I get this sorted. We have also lost access to our old comments as I have removed the Haloscan code from the template - unless I do some code that checks to see if there are old comments (via the Haloscan comment count bit) and display a 'read old comments' link where necessary. I probably won't though. :)
I'll need to jig the template about a bit as each post page is currently a copy of the main page (with long sidebar) and is a bit unwieldy. Blogger have intoduced condition tags (Something along the lines of if front page show this, if post page show this) for the templates too so that should be easy.
Talking of templates Blogger have added loads more - they now have 33 to be precise instead of the 6 or 7 they had. Some of them are not bad at all so if your design skills are cack, or unlike us, you care about not releasing a half designed site to the world there should be something for you.
Disappointingly there is no built in search which would have been nice but this is outweighed by the single post page - Google will index the new pages so that when you get a link back it should be to the post page which has it's own URL instead of a single target on a page with hundreds of posts. This should making finding old stuff a lot easier.
First impressions? Woo Yay!!!!!
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Ooh shiny
posted by mmChronic @ 1:33:00 AM
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While posting the Cully report I noticed Blogger has had a redesign too. I'm off to bed now but a quick glance shows they have added single post pages and comments which means bye bye Haloscan as Bloggers' will be quicker to load and the management of them will probably be built into the Blogger interface.
Definitely more on this in the morning.
Definitely more on this in the morning.
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Byker Cully Report
posted by mmChronic @ 1:26:00 AM
Naturally we assembled at a local hostelry to ensure we were suitably refreshed. This time it was The Ship, just around the corner from the Cully.
This looks like the original entrance to the Cully. If you look closely at the back wall you can see the top of a filled in arch. The flat area is immediately above the current (downstream) entrance of the Cully.
This is the point were the Ouseburn exits the Cully. It is also the point where we are going in. MAP
This is looking downstream immediately after entering the Cully. We had to scramble across strategically placed, albeit slime covered, rocks to get inside the arch then jump up onto a little concrete quay, which is where this picture is taken from.
This is the first proper part of the Cully. At this point I was thinking it looked a lot smaller than I remembered it.
This is one of ILuvNufc's childhood bogeys - the toxic mass beings that ooze out of the walls. I must point that out at this juncture that ILN is square as he was not there. :)
The tunnel has now widened out into the huge space that I remember. I'm no good at estimating sizes and none of us brought a tape measure so huge will have to suffice.
The structure immediately ahead is what we used to call the shop. It is actually a blast wall built across the width of the tunnel to prevent bomb damage spreading further up the tunnel. There are 2 of these in the tunnel.
The floor of the tunnel is filled with lots of holes like these and quite a few manhole sized ones. The water you see below is the Ouseburn. We think the floor was added in WWII as there is a cutaway section on a plaque in Warwick Street showing the Cully when it was built and there was no floor then.
The channel above runs parallel with the Ouseburn and just under the floor. There were side culverts on the cutaway section so this is probably part of the initial 1907 construction.
There were a series of pipes going through the floor here. We reckon these were possibly the remains of toilets from WWII.
Every now and then large pipes would protrude from the sides of the tunnel. These all point to the surrounding housing areas so are probably street drainage. Most of them were filled with various coloured, evil smelling gunk but this one was fairly dry and a wall could be seen a short way in. Al nominated himself as tunnel rat and went and had a look but the wall completely sealed the pipe. Curiously the pipe had climbing rungs even though it runs horizontally. This prompted conjecture of a Zelda like rotating room sort of thing. We couldn't find any switches though so that knocked that one on the head.
Sexy Andy is, apparently, this way. We must have passed him in one of the side tunnels as there was no sign of him.
The hole in the wall ahead leads through to a little square room which was absolutely minging of foisty, damp things. Hippy Tony and I, who had been down here before, declined the chance to scramble through a slimy hole so we stood and watched Bungers and Al do it instead.
The square room contained nothing but foisty, damp things (hence the minginess) and this vertical shaft leading to a manhole above. Daylight can be seen through the gaps in the cover. Assuming the manhole cover would be securely fastened we turned around and retraced our steps.
Once we got back out we re-walked the route of the tunnel, this time tracing it's route through the streets to the point where the Ouseburn entered it. More to the point, we knew where the manhole was having seen other kids go down it in the past. Or something. Probably. Amazingly while there was a bar across the top of the cover there was no padlock on the bar - it was completely unsecured. MAP
In fact, such was it's state of unsecuredness, it opened after we just looked at it for a few seconds. Honest officer. We closed it after we decided against going back through again due to the fact that everyone's batteries had pretty much died - even Al's alleged mini nuclear reactor thing.
The final picture is of a little weir, over which the Ouseburn goes just before entering the tunnel. This is just down the hill from the manhole cover.
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EDIT: Now with added Google mappage better Google mappage.
The Cully, or Byker Culvert to give it it's Sunday name, was built in 1907 to collect sewage and provide drainage to the area surrounding it. It was built by constructing a concrete arch over a length of the Ouseburn. The Ouseburn, a tributary of the Tyne, runs through a steeply sloping valley and the arch was built along the bottom of that, totally covering the river for a length of about half a mile. The arch was then covered with soil to a depth of 100ft.
The area on top of this soil was later used as a landfill area so the covering is now even thicker. This usage gave rise to one of the area's local names - the tip. It is more commonly known now as the Stadium as there is a tatty running track and a football pitch in the middle of it. Mmmm smell those toxins.
During World War II, Newcastle was a prime target for German bomber raids due to the numerous shipyards, armaments factories, coal tranportation facilities located here etc and it was decided to use the Cully as an air raid shelter, as they did with the Victoria tunnel.
It fell into disuse after that, only being used by local kids as a place to play which is exactly how I find out about it. After our successful trip to the Victoria Tunnel the other week we decided we should visit the Cully on an Official New Links Unofficial Tunnel Tour. I hadn't been down the Cully for over 20 years and didn't even know if it was still accessible but in the interests of local history we had to find out!
You may notice the faces are blurred on the pictures. This is because we weren't sure about the legality of our visit and I couldn't be bothered to add ninja masks! There were no keep out signs, warning signs or dire warnings of death by Alsatian. Nor was there any attempt to seal it off which would be easy to do as right near the beginning you enter through a normal door sized entry - with no door. So I reckon we are just practicing our right to ramble under this Government's open country laws. However as m0$$@d and the C14 read New links we are going to err on the side of caution! Click on the small images for their flickr page. There's extra info in the ALT on each one too.
Naturally we assembled at a local hostelry to ensure we were suitably refreshed. This time it was The Ship, just around the corner from the Cully.This looks like the original entrance to the Cully. If you look closely at the back wall you can see the top of a filled in arch. The flat area is immediately above the current (downstream) entrance of the Cully.This is the point were the Ouseburn exits the Cully. It is also the point where we are going in. MAPThis is looking downstream immediately after entering the Cully. We had to scramble across strategically placed, albeit slime covered, rocks to get inside the arch then jump up onto a little concrete quay, which is where this picture is taken from.This is the first proper part of the Cully. At this point I was thinking it looked a lot smaller than I remembered it.This is one of ILuvNufc's childhood bogeys - the toxic mass beings that ooze out of the walls. I must point that out at this juncture that ILN is square as he was not there. :)The tunnel has now widened out into the huge space that I remember. I'm no good at estimating sizes and none of us brought a tape measure so huge will have to suffice.The structure immediately ahead is what we used to call the shop. It is actually a blast wall built across the width of the tunnel to prevent bomb damage spreading further up the tunnel. There are 2 of these in the tunnel.The floor of the tunnel is filled with lots of holes like these and quite a few manhole sized ones. The water you see below is the Ouseburn. We think the floor was added in WWII as there is a cutaway section on a plaque in Warwick Street showing the Cully when it was built and there was no floor then.The channel above runs parallel with the Ouseburn and just under the floor. There were side culverts on the cutaway section so this is probably part of the initial 1907 construction.There were a series of pipes going through the floor here. We reckon these were possibly the remains of toilets from WWII.Every now and then large pipes would protrude from the sides of the tunnel. These all point to the surrounding housing areas so are probably street drainage. Most of them were filled with various coloured, evil smelling gunk but this one was fairly dry and a wall could be seen a short way in. Al nominated himself as tunnel rat and went and had a look but the wall completely sealed the pipe. Curiously the pipe had climbing rungs even though it runs horizontally. This prompted conjecture of a Zelda like rotating room sort of thing. We couldn't find any switches though so that knocked that one on the head.Sexy Andy is, apparently, this way. We must have passed him in one of the side tunnels as there was no sign of him.The hole in the wall ahead leads through to a little square room which was absolutely minging of foisty, damp things. Hippy Tony and I, who had been down here before, declined the chance to scramble through a slimy hole so we stood and watched Bungers and Al do it instead.The square room contained nothing but foisty, damp things (hence the minginess) and this vertical shaft leading to a manhole above. Daylight can be seen through the gaps in the cover. Assuming the manhole cover would be securely fastened we turned around and retraced our steps.Once we got back out we re-walked the route of the tunnel, this time tracing it's route through the streets to the point where the Ouseburn entered it. More to the point, we knew where the manhole was having seen other kids go down it in the past. Or something. Probably. Amazingly while there was a bar across the top of the cover there was no padlock on the bar - it was completely unsecured. MAPIn fact, such was it's state of unsecuredness, it opened after we just looked at it for a few seconds. Honest officer. We closed it after we decided against going back through again due to the fact that everyone's batteries had pretty much died - even Al's alleged mini nuclear reactor thing.The final picture is of a little weir, over which the Ouseburn goes just before entering the tunnel. This is just down the hill from the manhole cover.And that is the end of the Official New Links Unofficial Tunnel Tour. It is rumoured the next tunnel escapade may involve the use of sledge hammers. Yay!
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Sunday, May 09, 2004
If I were a nethack monster...
posted by bungers @ 1:06:00 PM
Which NetHack Monster Are You?
(And if I wasn't a floating eye, I'd be a water nymph.) Ho hum. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'm off to cast a spell of stink cloud. Or something.
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..)e.+#
....%|
If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a floating eye. I see and sense absolutely everything that happens around me. I just don't do very much about it...)e.+#
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(And if I wasn't a floating eye, I'd be a water nymph.) Ho hum. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'm off to cast a spell of stink cloud. Or something.
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Do not adjust your sets
posted by mmChronic @ 11:34:00 AM
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As you may have noticed we've had the decorators in and had yet another redesign. There are still a few features to pull across from the old template (like the Daily Picture bit) and the fonts & colours need to be decided on.
The main reason for this redesign was to speed up the page loading - it was getting very slow due to calling scripts from other sites (users online, comments, referrers, blogroll, comics etc). We've still got the scripts - I've rearranged the order things load now so that you shouldn't have to wait three weeks for the sidebars to come in when some of the slower scripts time out as they occasionally do.
Did I say sidebars? You'll also notice we are down to one of those now as well. This was mainly to make New Links look a bit better on smaller monitors but also because we used to have a lot of dead space under the sidebars.
As well as the speed improvements we have two other major changes due to this redesign. The icon code you have to cut and paste has been rewritten and is faster (natch!). The icon selector now generates the IMG code directly too rather than generating the javascript which generated the IMG code which will improve page loading times in the future. The downside of this is the length of the code you have to paste - the URL's for MSN Groups image storage are horrendous. Unfortunately we are the interweb's premier cheapskates and won't be paying for image storage in the near future so you will have to live with the URL shizzle. On the upside it now means you can play with the align and alt attributes to your hearts content. TIP: Select your icon with the combo, tab to the input cell and your icon code is highlighted automatically for you to CTRL-C. Much quicker than the previous method.
The second major change has removed the fixed font size - the View Text size stuff in IE works now so you can play with the text size settings for a more comfortable read. I guess that almost makes us a DDA compliant website now - we might even win a Bobby! Yay - New Links welcomes all our our readers regardless of the number of functioning eyes they have!
One last little snippet before I go and find some breakfast. We went to the Cully yesterday as planned and will have a full report with loads of pictures up soon - after I come back the match hopefully anyway. This is still to be written so don't hold your breath but it'll still be up quicker than Bungers' tunnel report from the previous trip to the Victoria Tunnel.
If only I could have been bothered putting links in here I could have regained the multi post title. Oh it looks like I did - and it's not just a lazy hack of an IMDB page either! :)
The main reason for this redesign was to speed up the page loading - it was getting very slow due to calling scripts from other sites (users online, comments, referrers, blogroll, comics etc). We've still got the scripts - I've rearranged the order things load now so that you shouldn't have to wait three weeks for the sidebars to come in when some of the slower scripts time out as they occasionally do.
Did I say sidebars? You'll also notice we are down to one of those now as well. This was mainly to make New Links look a bit better on smaller monitors but also because we used to have a lot of dead space under the sidebars.
As well as the speed improvements we have two other major changes due to this redesign. The icon code you have to cut and paste has been rewritten and is faster (natch!). The icon selector now generates the IMG code directly too rather than generating the javascript which generated the IMG code which will improve page loading times in the future. The downside of this is the length of the code you have to paste - the URL's for MSN Groups image storage are horrendous. Unfortunately we are the interweb's premier cheapskates and won't be paying for image storage in the near future so you will have to live with the URL shizzle. On the upside it now means you can play with the align and alt attributes to your hearts content. TIP: Select your icon with the combo, tab to the input cell and your icon code is highlighted automatically for you to CTRL-C. Much quicker than the previous method.
The second major change has removed the fixed font size - the View Text size stuff in IE works now so you can play with the text size settings for a more comfortable read. I guess that almost makes us a DDA compliant website now - we might even win a Bobby! Yay - New Links welcomes all our our readers regardless of the number of functioning eyes they have!
One last little snippet before I go and find some breakfast. We went to the Cully yesterday as planned and will have a full report with loads of pictures up soon - after I come back the match hopefully anyway. This is still to be written so don't hold your breath but it'll still be up quicker than Bungers' tunnel report from the previous trip to the Victoria Tunnel.
If only I could have been bothered putting links in here I could have regained the multi post title. Oh it looks like I did - and it's not just a lazy hack of an IMDB page either! :)
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Friday, May 07, 2004
newlinks loves Willy Dobbe!
posted by bungers @ 3:09:00 PM
We've been reviewed! Now, I know it's not the Grauniad, but it's almost as good as! Here is what Willy thinks of our lil' ol' site! Yay Willy! (ahem)
The management have been trying to improve the quality of the linkage, so we'll try harder from now on. ;)
Perhaps our next field trip should be to Amsterdam, to sample some of the excellent dutch hospitality!
EDIT : And I know that it is not, technically, a New Link, but neither am I ashamed of self promotion, navel gazing or vote whoring to boost our readership etc... PARP!
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We've been reviewed! Now, I know it's not the Grauniad, but it's almost as good as! Here is what Willy thinks of our lil' ol' site! Yay Willy! (ahem)
The management have been trying to improve the quality of the linkage, so we'll try harder from now on. ;)
Perhaps our next field trip should be to Amsterdam, to sample some of the excellent dutch hospitality!
EDIT : And I know that it is not, technically, a New Link, but neither am I ashamed of self promotion, navel gazing or vote whoring to boost our readership etc... PARP!
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Kenya goes to Hollywood
posted by mmChronic @ 2:11:00 PM
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The flash anim Kenya has been turned into a live action, big budget Hollywood film. OK so I lied about the Hollywood bit. And the big budget. But the action is erm... live.
via Presurfer.
via Presurfer.
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The worm within...
posted by mmChronic @ 12:59:00 PM
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...or the touching story of one man and his tapeworm. Gross. Not quite as gross as chewing through your own intestine (see link on 1st comment) but close.
via boingboing.
via boingboing.
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The Infinite Cat Project
posted by mmChronic @ 12:42:00 PM
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Like 'Game For A Laugh' but with cats watching cats watching cats etc instead of watching us watching you watching us etc.
/crawls off in embarrassment at remembering a Beadle catchphrase.
/crawls off in embarrassment at remembering a Beadle catchphrase.
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Happy Birthday iMac!
posted by bungers @ 11:16:00 AM
On this day in history (1998, to be precise) Apple unveiled theiMac. And yesterday it was Mr. T's birthday! But I forgot to post this, so here's a commemerative Mr T. icon. It's a special edition, and it could become a collector's item, don't you know!
Oh, and it's some bird's "born on this day in history day" called Traci Lords, but I couldn't find any links for that. Is she dead or alive...? Anyone know..??
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On this day in history (1998, to be precise) Apple unveiled theiMac. And yesterday it was Mr. T's birthday! But I forgot to post this, so here's a commemerative Mr T. icon. It's a special edition, and it could become a collector's item, don't you know! Oh, and it's some bird's "born on this day in history day" called Traci Lords, but I couldn't find any links for that. Is she dead or alive...? Anyone know..??
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Reasons to be cheerful #4678434
posted by bungers @ 10:36:00 AM
It's Friday! w()()+! But first, let's take a moment to think about these poor buggers in the Congo, who are getting eaten by nasty flesh eating parasites. The highly contagious, flesh-eating disease, Treponema pertenue, is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium which is easily treated with a shot of penicillin. The disease is primarily caused by poverty and lack of basic hygiene facilities. Access to soap and water is enough to prevent it.
How do you feel about that Mr. Boooosh...? Spending $25 billion on a war, so that your redneck friends can drive their bariatric kids to school in an SUV?
And don't think that you can get away with it this morning either Mr. Tony B. Liar. Did you know that the UK spends something like 0.3% of GDP on foreign aid? I'll try and find the official figure on this later - Bob Geldolf will know the answer to that. I'll give him a bell.
btw... John Kerry says he owns a Dodge 600 and doesn't own an SUV. The SUV parked on his drive..? Oh, that is "owned by his "family". We're all doomed. ;)
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It's Friday! w()()+! But first, let's take a moment to think about these poor buggers in the Congo, who are getting eaten by nasty flesh eating parasites. The highly contagious, flesh-eating disease, Treponema pertenue, is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium which is easily treated with a shot of penicillin. The disease is primarily caused by poverty and lack of basic hygiene facilities. Access to soap and water is enough to prevent it. How do you feel about that Mr. Boooosh...? Spending $25 billion on a war, so that your redneck friends can drive their bariatric kids to school in an SUV?
And don't think that you can get away with it this morning either Mr. Tony B. Liar. Did you know that the UK spends something like 0.3% of GDP on foreign aid? I'll try and find the official figure on this later - Bob Geldolf will know the answer to that. I'll give him a bell.
btw... John Kerry says he owns a Dodge 600 and doesn't own an SUV. The SUV parked on his drive..? Oh, that is "owned by his "family". We're all doomed. ;)
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Follow up: Disney Censorship...
posted by mmChronic @ 10:06:00 AM
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...or cheap publicity stunt? Looks like Mikey has hoodwinked the world's press. Considering his forte is semi documentary, investigative reporting I don't think lying will enhance his reputation.
So that's the liberal broadsheet's favourite American pulling cheap, tabloidesque publicity stunts. tsk tsk.
So that's the liberal broadsheet's favourite American pulling cheap, tabloidesque publicity stunts. tsk tsk.
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Culley trip
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 10:04:00 AM
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Hippy Tony and Al are going down the culley on Saturday afternoon.Meet at 2-30 outside The Ship Inn under Byker Bridge. If anyone wants to go just turn up with a torch and some wellies or if you want to wear shoes be prepared for them to get wet.I will also be there if i can get away in time from a day out with ILuvNufc Junior.As for the match, i think it is on Sunday.Be there or be square.
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EvilURL
posted by mmChronic @ 9:20:00 AM
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Best URL Obfuscator - ever™!
You give EvilURL a URL and it will turn it into something like
Go on click it - you know you want to!
You give EvilURL a URL and it will turn it into something like
http://evilurl.com/WANKfuckersmegma
Go on click it - you know you want to!
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YA Hey Ya!
posted by mmChronic @ 9:01:00 AM
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It's about time we had another "Hey Ya" animation - it must be a fortnight since the last one!
This time it's Hey Ya! VG Style! VG in this case being videogames - all the characters in the anim have been ripped from 16 bit games.
Link from Mergs via email - days ago. Sorry!
This time it's Hey Ya! VG Style! VG in this case being videogames - all the characters in the anim have been ripped from 16 bit games.
Link from Mergs via email - days ago. Sorry!
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Thursday, May 06, 2004
Is your lady looking a little bariatric?
Things about Nasa, the war, and sending Chucky to Mars...
posted by bungers @ 11:57:00 AM
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Or Bunger's Socio-Economic post of the day. Let's kick off with a nod to conspiracy theorists everywhere - the first line of this article reads "NASA requires a transformation if it is to reach the Moon and Mars"...
Here be stuff that goes on about the NASA budget being somewhere in the region of $16 - $17 billion dollars (it doesn't say what period this covers), and it estimates that the US will need to spend somewhere in the region of $100 billion to put the Chuckstaffer on Mars.
Did you know the war in Iraq has cost Boooosh $25 billion so far..?
BTW... Michael Moore's latest film Fahrenheight 911 has been blocked by Disney. More to follow.
Q. How do you tell the difference between Bing Crosby, and Walt Disney..?
Clicky comments for killer punchline.
Here be stuff that goes on about the NASA budget being somewhere in the region of $16 - $17 billion dollars (it doesn't say what period this covers), and it estimates that the US will need to spend somewhere in the region of $100 billion to put the Chuckstaffer on Mars.
Did you know the war in Iraq has cost Boooosh $25 billion so far..?
BTW... Michael Moore's latest film Fahrenheight 911 has been blocked by Disney. More to follow.
Q. How do you tell the difference between Bing Crosby, and Walt Disney..?
Clicky comments for killer punchline.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Costume
posted by mmChronic @ 11:14:00 AM
As part of NewLinks' plans to dominate the world we may require body armour for our foot soldiers. I nominate the original Star Wars Stormtrooper kit available here.
I'm off to build some doors that are too small. Ouch.
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As part of NewLinks' plans to dominate the world we may require body armour for our foot soldiers. I nominate the original Star Wars Stormtrooper kit available here.
I'm off to build some doors that are too small. Ouch.
via boingboing
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Hey Hey 16k
posted by mmChronic @ 8:28:00 AM
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This flash animation will bring the 80's back to life - if you owned a Spectrum anyway. Mine was never bought for me for homework - I bought mine myself purely for gaming pleasure! Yay!
from b3ta
from b3ta
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Star Wars Lego
posted by mmChronic @ 8:24:00 AM
This is a link to unofficial Lego Star Wars characters and they are much better than the proper ones. Each character has one of the Star Wars cards behind it for comparison.
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This is a link to unofficial Lego Star Wars characters and they are much better than the proper ones. Each character has one of the Star Wars cards behind it for comparison.
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Celebrity Blog Spot
posted by mmChronic @ 8:16:00 AM
This is a link to the blog of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst . Features advice to bariatric kids but no mention of back scuttling Britney.
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This is a link to the blog of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst . Features advice to bariatric kids but no mention of back scuttling Britney.
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Another one for Bungers
posted by mmChronic @ 8:09:00 AM
After the iPod comes the hiPod - an iPod / phone/ watch combo with wireless earphones. Unfortunately for Bungers it exists only in the mind of a graphic artist.
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After the iPod comes the hiPod - an iPod / phone/ watch combo with wireless earphones. Unfortunately for Bungers it exists only in the mind of a graphic artist.
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One For Bungers
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 7:49:00 AM
The Department for Work and Pensions lost a court case against high street 53x shop Ann Summers for refusing to advertise its vacancies. The High Court ruling means the legal 53x industry is free to advertise for new staff in Government jobcentres. Clicky here
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The Department for Work and Pensions lost a court case against high street 53x shop Ann Summers for refusing to advertise its vacancies. The High Court ruling means the legal 53x industry is free to advertise for new staff in Government jobcentres. Clicky here
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
New cool (er) logo for band...
Playing a stadium near you soon...
Follow up... Your a$$ looks a little "bariatric" today dear...
posted by bungers @ 2:33:00 PM
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In case you were wondering, "bariatric" means "weight management". Find out more by clicking here. I suggest you stop eating so much shizzle.
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It's time for an Icon of the Month contest!
posted by bungers @ 2:18:00 PM
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And here's my first effort, specifically designed to be used with all these tunnelling related links and exploits. It's the big man of tunnelling and all things boring (rasp rasp), the mighty Fred Dibnah!
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Jumbolance redefined
posted by mmChronic @ 2:01:00 PM
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In the 80's they unveiled the Jumbolance which was a jumbo ambulance i.e. one that could carry lots of patients.
Now it looks like the Americans have redefined the word forever. Their version is an ambulance for jumbos. A new ambulance has been revealed which caters for fat people in the 450-1000lb (32-72 stone in proper money!!!!) range and has it's own winch.
Now it looks like the Americans have redefined the word forever. Their version is an ambulance for jumbos. A new ambulance has been revealed which caters for fat people in the 450-1000lb (32-72 stone in proper money!!!!) range and has it's own winch.
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Defamer
posted by mmChronic @ 1:53:00 PM
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Defamer is like a blog version of popbitch without the libellous forum. Worth a read if only because they link to screen captures from the all new Gena Lee Nolin sex tapes. These links SFW - after that you are on your own.
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One for the band formerly(?) known as Brood-X
posted by mmChronic @ 1:46:00 PM
The Gibson Digital Guitar lets you put different effects on each string and streams your music out of the integral ethernet port. Mind you if it's effects on guitar strings you want then look at this - the coin effects are awesome.
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The Gibson Digital Guitar lets you put different effects on each string and streams your music out of the integral ethernet port. Mind you if it's effects on guitar strings you want then look at this - the coin effects are awesome.
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The Hole
posted by mmChronic @ 12:19:00 PM
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Who needs a tunnel? We could dig our own hole instead. I nominate ILN's back garden as it is the largest.
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New Scientist
posted by bungers @ 11:49:00 AM
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Let's offroad! One of the rovers is about to plunge deep into one of the massive big holes on Mars.
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The Shining with Bunnies
posted by mmChronic @ 10:34:00 AM
We've had the Exorcist and Apocalypse Now. This time it is the turn of The Shining to get the bunny makeover treatment.
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We've had the Exorcist and Apocalypse Now. This time it is the turn of The Shining to get the bunny makeover treatment.
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Tut Tut
posted by ILuvNUFC @ 10:09:00 AM
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Marseille goalie Fabien Barthez was caught taking a leak on the field of play during a UEFA Cup tie against Inter Milan. Clicky here.
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Rah Rah Rasputin...
posted by mmChronic @ 9:44:00 AM
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...stuck this in the Russian queen.
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iTunes killer #32436288...
posted by bungers @ 9:21:00 AM
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Sony unveils online music service called Connect.
Tunnel report is still being written. Might be with you at some point today. ;)
Tunnel report is still being written. Might be with you at some point today. ;)
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Fifty years of pop
posted by mmChronic @ 9:20:00 AM
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The Observer has an article about the 50 defining moments in pop which is a good read and mentions some classic music & artists like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and The Who. Unfortunately there's room for the Spice Girls in the list.
The defining moment in pop for me would be when R'n'B went from meaning rhythm and blues to rhythm and bass. Unfortunately I don't know when this actually happened. However today is a good chance to celebrate real R'n'B - it's Eric Burdon's birthday. I'm off for a pint.
The defining moment in pop for me would be when R'n'B went from meaning rhythm and blues to rhythm and bass. Unfortunately I don't know when this actually happened. However today is a good chance to celebrate real R'n'B - it's Eric Burdon's birthday. I'm off for a pint.
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Meat is murder
posted by mmChronic @ 8:21:00 AM
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...they say so that must mean reconstituted, beef scrapings with added fat, salt, fat, flavourings and fat is premeditated murder.
McMurder revealed that there was also a link between McDonalds and murder. For instance each murder in the US was within a mile of a McDonalds' and statistics show that that cities with higher a number of McDonalds' had a higher murder rate than those with only a handful. You can do anything with statistics!
McDonalds don't get the joke - their ninja lawyers have attacked.
viaboingboing.
McMurder revealed that there was also a link between McDonalds and murder. For instance each murder in the US was within a mile of a McDonalds' and statistics show that that cities with higher a number of McDonalds' had a higher murder rate than those with only a handful. You can do anything with statistics!
McDonalds don't get the joke - their ninja lawyers have attacked.
viaboingboing.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Paris Hilton Watch
posted by bungers @ 4:27:00 PM
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And this time, you can actually watch Paris in some rap bloke called Won-G's video.
Excellent! I was just discussing how celebrity endorsment could be critical to the success of the band I play guitar for, the mighty, mighty "Brood-X".
I love it when a plan comes together... ;)
Excellent! I was just discussing how celebrity endorsment could be critical to the success of the band I play guitar for, the mighty, mighty "Brood-X".
I love it when a plan comes together... ;)
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Then i must be..
Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?
It's a new iPod advert!
Too young to get served in the pubs but...
posted by Dogs @ 12:28:00 PM
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Old enough to vote in general elections. Blair is to give the vote to 16-year olds. So I'm off to form the Workers Revolutionary Youth Party. The headline policy of this year's manifesto: the introduction of a loan free student grant that includes a built in bus pass, cigarette, alchohol, pool table and nightclub entrance fee allowance and a complete removal of all limitations on pub quiz team sizes.
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Thought of the day...
posted by bungers @ 12:02:00 PM
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Cunningly combined with Comic Of The Day™. Here be Pearls of Wisdom.
I would be doing what I was up to on Sunday. So I don't feel so bad about that. More on that later, when I post the Bunger's Official Tunnel Tour Write Up™ ;)
I would be doing what I was up to on Sunday. So I don't feel so bad about that. More on that later, when I post the Bunger's Official Tunnel Tour Write Up™ ;)
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It's time for...
posted by bungers @ 10:40:00 AM
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May's Fungus of the month poses an interesting taxonomic problem. But which one will it be?
Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for May 2004
Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for May 2004
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Multiplayer Giana Sisters
posted by mmChronic @ 10:06:00 AM
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Remember the Great Giana Sisters on the 64 and Amiga? It was a perfect (except for the graphics) clone of Super Mario. It wasn't on sale for long as Nintendo moved fairly quickly to crush it. Someone has released a version with added multiplayer goodness - 16 players to be exact.
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Dark Crystal : the Movie
posted by bungers @ 9:15:00 AM
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Ashley Olsen is to play Jen the Gelfling in a live action version of the 1982 film The Dark Crystal opposite Orlando Bloom. The movie, for which I am writing the screenplay, will be directed by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Tom Cruise.
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Pacmanhattan
posted by mmChronic @ 8:06:00 AM
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A new videogaming system has been launched - using streets as the screen and mobiles as joysticks. PacManhattan is Pacman played on the streets of Manhattan using roadsigns for powerpills.
I'm off to play Donkey Kong on the Sage building.
I'm off to play Donkey Kong on the Sage building.
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Google announces GMail
posted by mmChronic @ 7:48:00 AM
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...and people promptly offer accounts for sale on eBay. There is nothing surprising about this except for the price reached. Apparently a Google account is worth $137.50. Which makes my 2 invite a friend accounts are worth $275 between them.
I'm off to order an iPod.
I'm off to order an iPod.
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Monday, May 03, 2004
Looting is bad...
posted by Dogs @ 4:58:00 PM
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And the US army will make somebody pay for it.
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It's true
Saturday, May 01, 2004
The (Domin) Matrix?
posted by mmChronic @ 8:58:00 AM
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Gender bender:"Matrix" co-creator Larry Wachowski is said to be ready to
have the sex-change operation he's been moving toward. According to
reports, Larry, post-op, plans to be known as Linda. (Rush and Molloy).
Link from Mergs via email.
have the sex-change operation he's been moving toward. According to
reports, Larry, post-op, plans to be known as Linda. (Rush and Molloy).
Link from Mergs via email.
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