He's checking out pirate ships for the New Links crew. Yar!
Monday, May 24, 2004
One for Merg
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! ;)
Obscure 5318008 link...
Piper confirmed to play Dr. Who's sidekick. I saw her in Canterbury Tales. The little Minx.
Young men 'failing to check for cancer'
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.
Follow up : Are you an ugly A$$ fish..?
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!
Goed nieuws uit Arnhem
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.
Ugly Ass Fish #26353
You might be bariatric, but at least you're not this ugly too. You are? I'm sorry. You'll be needing Photoshop™
Dr mmC was right!
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.
LucasFan Games
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.
Are you local..?
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... ;)
Deserted Japanese coal town
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.
Museum of Hoaxes
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.
Sunday, May 23, 2004
One legged DDR master
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)
Follow up: Optical Camouflage
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)
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Friday, May 21, 2004
Friday Games
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
Bariatric Watch
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©.
100 Sites for Men - that won't offend the missus!
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!
It's Mr. T's Birthday!
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.
One for Bungers
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
Thursday, May 20, 2004
So what is the new feature?
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!
Set other peoples' Away Messages!
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.
Test Drive a Macintosh...
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!
Scared of Brood-X?
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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