Monday, February 28, 2005
Sci-Fi Offers Free "Battlestar Galactica" Episode
The Sci-Fi channel has released the first episode of the uber-awesome Battlestar Galactica remake series. The episode comes complete without commercial interruption, and with bonus deleted scenes. Click on over to Boing Boing for the skinny.
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection


The San Francisco Public Library has an extensive collection of historical photographs of San Francisco browsable by subjects such as Alcatraz, monuments and bridges. You can even browse by area with the aid of a clickable map.
Maybe we'll get a Now vs Then photopost from Merg. ;)
via Ultimate Insult
YA New Blog Chart



Well all that's resolved now as the British Blogs Top Ten is no more - the latest post says it probably won't be updated again as it did what it set out to do and raised the profiles of some British Blogs.
However
So in the pursuit of ever more exclusive charts I'm proud to announce the Newcastle Upon Tyne (With Foreign Correspondents In Chester-le-Street, Cardiff,
We are at Number 1. Yay!
Metrosexual Free Zone?
Game on...guaranteed to get you mad...
Girls girls everywhere and not a nip in sight...I'm losing my touch...
I may own more than two pair of dress shoes, and maybe a designer suit, but I don’t mind going to the grocery store in sweats. And I may even go a day or two without a shower.
An oldie but goodie...direct from my bookmarks...Misty Island...
Behold my dream vehicle...see once upon a time I was a surfing hippy...
Make sure you're wearing the right condom if slamming your wang in a car door...ouch!
Final Fantasy For Xbox?


Hopefully this will now change and we will start getting some better RPGs 'in the style ' of Final Fantasy. Obviously at this late stage anything he works on will almost definitely be for Xbox 2 - add to this Oblivion for the Xbox 2 and I'll never have to buy another game again. Probably.
NewLinks' Favourite Pub?


More swearing?
via Badger's Bastion
Morning all




EU Questions Apple's Pricing of iTunes in Britain.
Laserpod. Pink Floyd in your living room.
The entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics.

You R2 drunk to drive. R2D2 gets caught drink driving. (via)
Funny picture. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
A Cannabis Chronology. (via)
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Numa Numa Boy Embarrassed By Attention


Gary Brolsma has been getting plagued by the attention since the video he recorded got hosted on newgrounds.com (looks like I linked the right source then eh Hans?) then picked up by the rest of the internet. He's now being chased for interviews by the traditional media - he had agreed to do the NBC Today show but cancelled.
Let that be a lesson to you all: Ensure you post nothing on the web you don't want people to see. It's a very public place. How hard is it to figure that one out?
Sunday Sillies

April Fools Day soon...well sort of...pc pranks galore...
Got a crush on your cousin..? Check the facts...
Perfect for the paranoid office worker...
Stunning...How Wide is America..?
The REAL Paris Hilton phone leak...not what ya think!!!
Got a crush on your cousin..? Check the facts...
Perfect for the paranoid office worker...
Stunning...How Wide is America..?
The REAL Paris Hilton phone leak...not what ya think!!!
Catcha
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Unseen Countdown


Disappointingly the contestants could only come up with a four letter word - according to the Internet Anagram Server they could have had three seven letter words including the amusingly apt 'Flaunts'.
More swearing?
via The Flophouse
New Links New member!
Morning all!
Couple of announcements for you all this morning, we've got a new member onboard! So, lay-dees and gennelmen, please be upstanding, for Dan, intarweb-master from Colorado!
Dan joins New Links (officially one of the top ten blogs in the UK) after his recent expulsion from another blog, and will be our new Apple related stuff resident editor, probably.
His site, Intarweb-Master began life with Blogger on June 9th, 2004 with teh adventures of dan: master of teh intarweb?. He's also a big firefox fan, so he'll feel right at home here. :) Read Dan's full bio here.
Welcome aboard! :)



Welcome aboard! :)
Travis Barker On Blink 182 Breaking Up

Box Car Racer were also mentioned in the interview - fingers crossed we hear something new from them too. I'm sure we'll definitely hear from Blink again in the future - but maybe not as Blink 182 but in collaborations like the Transplants, Box Car Racer, Rancid or some band that we haven't heard of yet.
via ILuvNUFC by email
Friday, February 25, 2005
NewLinks' Fantasy Football League

1 Merg 81
2 Dogs 71
3 ILuvNUFC 68
4 Bungers 65
5 mmChronic 53
6 Flip 33
This win has consolidated his place at the top of the Best 3 Months League. It looks like Merg is New Links' Chelski. Pah he just bought the title. Or something.
Season 6 starts tomorrow so I'd recommend sorting your teams out tonight. If anyone else wants in sign up and send me your PIN.


Match reports
Chelsea: nufc.com, BAWARAO
Heerenveen: nufc.com, BAWARAO
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released

Dog Gone...
Dog View...angry...
Doggy Style...funny...
Walking Dog...amazing...
Sad Dog ...er...sad...

Gay Dog
Furby Dogs...odd...
Every Dog...an A to Z...
Geek Dogs...humans are stupid...
Talking Dogs...they speak..!
Yeah...you guessed it...I just said bye to another guide dog...catcha...
Nanaca Crash



You start the game by choosing angle and speed and then a bicycle comes in from the left and knocks someone over. The knocked over person takes the role of the penguin flying through the air - but this time different effects happen when you land on various people. Sometime your angle changes, you get a boost or just stop dead.
via Ultimate Insult
Morning fellow NewLinker


Mike's Classic Cartoon Themes & Images. (via)
Don't know if you guys have seen this...ROM-World.com. Rom Downloads - MAME roms Gba roms Snes roms Nintendo roms Sega Genesis roms. (via)
Aarons Jokes. 1,230 Adult jokes here. NSFW, obviously.

The Commodore 64 DTV - Re-introducing An Old Friend.
The Shiftkey FAQ.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention. My Blog, Look At This..., should hit the magic 100,000 visitors some time today if it's you (look in the stuff section at the top of the sidebar to see) you will win a lovely prize from my now legendary prize cupboard. You will have to take a screenshot though. If you cant manage that ask your son or dad or something or as mmChronic always says "just fsckin Google it". I will accept a screenshot nearest to 100,000 in case that special visitor does'nt realise that they could have won the best prize ever. Editors decision is final. Or something.
British Blogs Top Ten
The British Blogs Top 10 which we joined the other day is currently being updated nearly every day as more and more blogs are added to the list. Hopefully it settles down to once a week soon so we can give you a weekly chart run down in a Alan 'Pop Pickers' Freeman stylee.
As it is we've dropped to number 9 in the charts mainly due to more popular (but obviously not actually better! ;) blogs coming into the chart. We are also starting to lose some of the residual visits from our massive spike the other week for the Get Firefox Ribbon. Here's the top ten as they stood yesterday.
1. Andrew Sullivan: 32633 average daily visits.
2. A Welsh View: 7154
3. Normblog: 2890
4. Harry's Place: 2727
5. Tim Worstall: 1486
6. No Rock and Roll Fun: 1474
7. Biased BBC: 1432
8. Plastic Bag: 1354
9. New Links: 1187
10. The Policeman?s Blog: 1146
Full charts here.
So it looks like we'll probably drop out of the top ten at the weekend and become the blogging equivalent of a one hit wonder, forever trying to relive our week in the sun. Or something.
I think we need tag icons for British and Blogging. I'll leave that to someone else as seen as I seem to be writing all the posts these days. ;)
As it is we've dropped to number 9 in the charts mainly due to more popular (but obviously not actually better! ;) blogs coming into the chart. We are also starting to lose some of the residual visits from our massive spike the other week for the Get Firefox Ribbon. Here's the top ten as they stood yesterday.
1. Andrew Sullivan: 32633 average daily visits.
2. A Welsh View: 7154
3. Normblog: 2890
4. Harry's Place: 2727
5. Tim Worstall: 1486
6. No Rock and Roll Fun: 1474
7. Biased BBC: 1432
8. Plastic Bag: 1354
9. New Links: 1187
10. The Policeman?s Blog: 1146
Full charts here.
So it looks like we'll probably drop out of the top ten at the weekend and become the blogging equivalent of a one hit wonder, forever trying to relive our week in the sun. Or something.
I think we need tag icons for British and Blogging. I'll leave that to someone else as seen as I seem to be writing all the posts these days. ;)
Liberated Games

There are many notable games there including the Cinemaware series (Wings!), the early GTAs, Descent (1 & 2) Hexen and lots more.
via 0xDECAFBAD
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Science Fact And Fiction Quiz


It gives you 10 statements on various things to do with space and you have to decide whether the statement is fact or fiction. Once you've submitted your answers you get the results with an explanation of the answer and links to other articles on the subject.
I got 6 and 7 wrong so 8/10 for me.
via John Johansson
More Recreational Drugs Medicines


Talking of mushrooms - whatever happened to the famed Bungers' Fungus oF The Month Series?
via BoingBoing
Good Morning

Smurf Name Generator. I was Naughty Smurf. (via)

Not Proud - online confessions. (via)
The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less. (via)
Explorer Now Has Tabs

via Waxy
Blink 182 Breaking Up?



Hopefully there will be lots of collaborations with other bands as there have been in the past - and there have been some excellent albums from the likes of the Transplants, Box Car Racer and Rancid featuring one or more of the Blink boys.
Today I will be mostly rocking out to Fsck A Dog.
EDIT: Interview with Travis Barker here.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Mad sk1775!

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