One for Merg

PARP!

More seach engine related news...

Still looking for an alternative to text-based searching?

Yahoo e-commerce, eBay and Froogle are experimenting with various types of advanced search interfaces, probably as a result of discovering that there are between 5,000 to 10,000 web users a month shopping at Amazon electronics using a visually-oriented search interface.

Check out the Honeycomb/Google Demo from The Hive Group.

Now all I need is a laser powered waterfall... with sharks swimming round in it. ;)

Newcastle United Football Club - Match reports - Southampton (a)

The Southampton match report is now up at nufc.com. Getting our first win down there in over 32 years maybe Souness isn't so bad after all.

While you are there don't forget to check their countdown at the top of the index page. It's nearly 500 days since... well go and have a look for yourself. All I will say on the subject is PARP! :)

Todays rubbish

- powergenitalia.com. The Italian arm of the UK energy company Powergen. Honestly.
- Bad Architecture in China.
- One for ILuvNUFC Junior. Grappa. Use your left button to draw and your right to wipe it clean. Very pretty.
- nekopach. Fire your cat to collect the gems and don't forget to catch it on the way back down.
- Arrrr! It be a pirate glossary.
- Evidence of a Google browser.
- Random images. Some NSFW content.
- Todays weird item on eBay. Largest collection of beer bottles in the world.


Thanks to sciatica and coolios.

Could have made a better choice of headline!

According to Reuters there is an Iraq boom time for former dogs of war. I think they meant there is plenty of money to be made by mercenaries in Iraq but it could equally have applied to this or this.

A-Team LEGO Adventures

The A-Team LEGO Adventures came about when the author found his

old lego A-team van that you made in 7th grade and decide it's time to do something with it.

Lego?

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If only Merg could use icons...

Surf's Up!

Hurricane Ivan created huge waves as well as causing damage in the Caribbean.
This man took it upon himself to surf one.
Nice wave, Dude!

Where in the world? Clue 2

Does'nt make it much easier.

Why Micorsoft rules my Univrese

According to Gerald Holmes, Micorsoft Windows rules the Universe. Shame he hasn't used their spell checker.

This has to be the biggest troll ever or the most misguided soul in the universe. You decide.

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Where in the world...

were we on Sunday?

Another beautiful day in the toon...

Morning all! It's The Sage Music Centre!
If you've been living with your head in the sand then you probably won't be aware that it's opening on the 17th December, and, rumour has it, the mighty "Axes of E-bay" will be playing the opening night. Woo!

Yeah, yeah... I know it's Gateshead... blah blah... ;)

Wacko Mask

Get ready for Halloween by ordering a Wacko Jacko mask - just make sure you don't get mistakenly arrested for child abuse. Yow!

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ILuvNUFC's rubbish round up

- C-3PO's vegetable vacation photos. Class.
- Todays weird item on eBay. P3n!5 shaped chicken nugget.
- Contortion Home Page. Some very bendy people.
- The Godfather horse head pillow.
- The Borat doctrine. Roman Vassilenko, the press secretary for the Embassy of Kazakhstan, wants to clear up a few misconceptions about his country. Best link this week and it's only tuesday. Whilst on the subject How does Ali G keep conning famous guests?
- Monkey photos. Some scary looking Monkeys.
- Hand shadows to be thrown upon the wall. Brilliant.
- Paul Smith's typewriter art.


Thanks to coolios, diminishedresponsibility, incomingsignals and waxy.org

Lego Tetris (and more)

Lego Tetris. It's Tetris - with Lego.

Even better than that is the rest of the Boleg Bros site - lots of Lego stuff including Lego pictures, Lego wig machine thing and turning people like David Blunkett and Clive Woodward into Lego people with appropriate abuse for them.

More Lego?

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Fantasy Football Update

The New Links Fantasy Football League scores have been updated.

Merg retains 1st place but I was best scorer of the weekend which puts me into joint 2nd place with Flip. Joint second best scorers of the weekend were ILN and Dogs which while not good enough to take them off the bottom sees them gaining slowly but surely on Bungers.

New Links new game!

Afternoon all! Continuing today's theme of urban exploration and fun and games here's one we can all play! It's Digital Street Game.

Now that I've made New Links the spiritual home of Digital Street Game : Newcastle, mmChronic and I are off to bag Byker, Walker, and the whole East End! Game on!

Sakhnin Away Leg On Telly

From NUFC.com comes the news that our UEFA Cup 2nd leg has been picked up by C5:

Channel 5 are advertising that they will provide live coverage of our second leg match against Sakhnin from Tel Aviv on Thursday 30th September.

It does of course mean probably having to put up with one of the crappest TV pundits in the world but you can't have everything.

Sleepy City urban photography

A continually recurring theme at New Links is urban exploration (posh term for getting scruffy down tunnels) as we've had two New Links tunnel tours (one of which has been written about and the other alluded to a squillion times) and have linked to lots of other urban exploration sites.

Well here's another one - Sleepy City is an urban exploration site from Australia with loads of interesting pictures and a forum to discuss tunnelling trips.

via Ultimate Insult

One for Bungers

Every Calvin & Hobbes - evar. The complete collection will be released next year for $150 in a collection consisting of 3 hard cover books.

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Some stuff

- Reverse Mod. A PC turned into a bookcase.
- I'd heard of dogs walking on two legs but not their front legs.
- Everything is bigger in Texas. Including their Fat Asses
- Former child star Macaulay Culkin was arrested on drug charges on Friday.
- The sickest jokes. Ever. From b3ta.com. You have been warned.
- Best game I've played in ages. All you have to do is guide your mouse around the maze. The only problem is is that your mouse has been reversed.

Pirate Keyboard

The letter R(rrrRRR!!!) in today's posts will be brought to you by the pirate keyboard.

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Give a homeless pirate a home

Pirate the one eyed cat is looking for a new berth. He's currently living at the Battersea Dogs home - on account of him being a salty old sea dog. Probably.

Remember kids - a pirate cat is for life not just for Speak Like A Pirate Day. Yarrr!

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Avast ye mateys!

Ahoy newlinkers!
Talk like a Pirate day has been spotted just off the port bow, so what better time to make sure your pirate talk is up to scratch.
Arrrrr, swab the deck!!!

Charv alert...

Skinner to star in 'Charv, the Movie'

And they're not achieving anything in sk00l, either.


If you ain't from round these parts, here's the handy BBC guide to who's got, and who is (most definately) not:

• charvers - fake designer gear, school is uncool


• radgys - aggressive, liable to be excluded


• divvies - hangers-on to charvers


• goths - wear dark clothes


• freaks - hard-working, considered normal by school

Please note the correct pronunciation. It's like 'carver', but which a "ch" sound at the start. It's not CHAV, like 'have'. Get it right.

Bungers meets Paris Hilton

Looks like Bungers finally got to meet Paris Hilton in the flesh.

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ILuvNUFC's rubbish round up

- Wigs for men. Everyone one of them is terrible.
- Pen and Ink Art of Dave Archambault. Amazing.
- The .WAV collection.
- Go on. Pop the bubbles. You know you want to.


Thanks to coolios

Run Internet Explorer? Don't look at the pictures...

Microsoft have warned of an exploit affecting a large chunk of their programs where loading a malformed JPEG picture could allow your PC to be hacked. Don't worry though - it's only if you can be 'persuaded' to load said malformed JPEG. I hope this only works on the File / Open command in Internet Explorer. If it works on inline images (ie the images you see on a web page) there will be a lot of people being 'persuaded' to load these images right now.

Apple about to be pwned by - Apple!

Apple (computer company) are about to get fscked over by Apple (music company). Normally I would be on the side of whoever was fighting a record company - not this time as Apple (computers) have proved to be just as greedy as the record companies. Serves the greedy hippy arsemunching twats right for trying to rip us off.

I'm sure we've referred on here to Apple (computers) being sued by Apple (music) for using their trademarked name (erm... Apple) but I can't find it - it may have been in our long defunct commenting system. The settlement included Apple (computers) not entering the music business in any way, shape or form. We also muttered about iTunes clearly being an entry into the music business and it would only be a matter of time before Apple (music) got on the case. Well that time has arrived.

AFAIK the only profitable bit of Apple (computers) is the music side - iPods and iTunes. Take any settlements out of that and they could be looking at yet another huge loss. My heart bleeds. Parp!

Want GMail?

You may not have GMail because of a lack of friends but because of Google's lack of servers. As new servers are bought and installed further invitations are given to users to hand out. This is apparently the reason why it has not become a fully public service yet as they couldn't cope with the rush of new users.

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