links for 2010-01-19

"On Saturday 200 children spent the night in sleeping bags surrounding Dippy the diplodocus after participating in a torchlit treasure hunt through the dinosaur gallery, watching films, and listening to a talk on bugs". At 3-and-a-half-months, do you think Emma is old enough for this yet?

"The battle for the future of Walthamstow Stadium has heated up as the company which owns it unveiled plans to build almost 500 houses on the site. The stadium was famous as a greyhound track but it hosted its last race in 2008. However, a group of local campaigners have their own plans which include bringing the greyhounds back to Walthamstow". Video report from ITV London

The site you need if you ever want to locate the nearest alpaca to you in captivity. Brilliantly fun application. Would like to see it mashed-up with Dopplr - "animals you may have missed whilst you were travelling"

Excellent ideas for the PCC code submission - particularly around making corrections and apologies visible on the original URL or a re-direction thereof.

"You can either ridicule the entirety of Twitter, and imagine that you're the big clever people who've got the keys to the world, by dint of being slightly better at writing than other people, but the truth is that isn't the case. It's not mob rule. The mob are your readers."

Great list, via psmith...

...who duly takes the economics of it apart

"Unbelievably, it appears to have taken two Sunday Express typists, David Jarvis and David Stephenson, to pull together an inept wannabe-expose into the BBC's use of Twitter". Hilarious. Especially the bit where they get the quote from Ann Widdecombe, who manages to forget that her own Twitter activities were part of a Licence Fee funded BBC project.