Or one for Merg.
The British Blogs Top Ten started as a bit of fun, listing the most popular UK blogs by traffic. The person that started said all along it was unscientific and just a bit of fun and he was prepared to accept any publicly available stat counter. Since then there's been a bit of bickering in the UK blogosphere regarding Britishness of certain blogs, disparities between various counting methods, comments about certain blogs having a high percentage of search traffic looking for boobies (a Bad Thing™ apparently) and even the Guardian had a pop.
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined the Xbox development team. RPGs have beeen a bit disappointing on the XBox so far - Sudeki not deep enough, Fable not long enough and KOTOR was OK. The only one I've really enjoyed is Morrowind - the GOTY edition is awesome value if you haven't got it.
Well it would be if it was in Newcastle - the Foul Mouthed Cnut would be suitable for all our NewLinks' nights out.
It seems the lad in the Numa Numa video is very embarrassed by all the attention (needs subscription or BugMeNot) he's been getting.
Here's a clip from Countdown showing a very very rude choice of letters for one of the anagram rounds. It's a fake but still very funny. 
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. 
Here's a KROQ interview with Travis Barker (ASF) in which he say's that Blink 182 are just taking a break - while announcing a new CD with The Transplants and going on the Warped tour in June with them. So no break for Travis then. It does sound (to me anyway) like the end of the road for Blink - the fact that Blink 182 have announced this break when they've taken them unannounced in the past, the no definite plans to get back together and the fact they cancelled their appearance at a tsunami fund raising gig at the last minute just seem like the break ups of so many other bands. 
As Merg pointed out the other day Season 5 of the New Links' Fantasy Football League has ended. I wonder why he was so keen - nowt to do with him winning again is it? ;)
On the subject of Chelsea - I don't believe we've mentioned that we knocked this season's Premiership Champions (probably) out of the FA cup last weekend. So with our victory over Heerenveen last night in the UEFA cup we are now in the last 8 in the FA Cup and the last 16 in the UEFA Cup. A double will do me fine. ;)Firefox 1.0.1 has been released - changes are mainly security and bug fixes and can be got from the usual place.
Nanaca Crash This is a game similar in execution to Smack The Pingu - ie select angle and force of hit and see how far you can fly an object throught the air - but this time there's not a penguin or yet in site as it's in Japanese anime style.
We've often posted about commercial games that have been released into the wild by their publishers. We've found out about them from other blogs, gaming sites, forums and various other places. Here's a handy site called Liberated Games that catalogues these games as they are released and provides links to them. It's a one stop, free game shop. Yay!
Test your knowledge of science and space exploration with the Science Fact And Fiction quiz from MSNBC.
After yesterday's news that marijuana may be useful against Alzheimers comes the news that scientists reckon psychedelic drugs might help treat OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). An American psychiatrist has been using psilocybin (mmm mushrooms!), and though he hasn't revealed the results yet, he has said they are promising. Whatever next? Crack to treat migraines? ;)Star Wars Landspeeder. For sale on eBay. I want it! (via)
But it's not Internet Explorer - it's Windows Explorer with added tab goodness. ExplorerXP is a freeware filemanager which looks quite funky - no more desktop with 6 squillion windows open at once.
Bhell13 emailed me this story on Yahoo about Blink 182 going on 'indefinite hiatus' and "there is no set plan for the band to begin working together again". Eek! For me the best of Blink had passed anyway - the last album was good but heading distinctly into pop territory. Give me Cheshire Cat & Dude Ranch over the newer stuff anyday.
Not quite parkour, but it's pretty cool. Watch out for the bit at around three minutes where they all do a synchronised wall running bit. Sweet.
