Dinosaurs Protected
Good news for the dinosaurs of Dinosaur Court, Crystal Palace Park, south London: they've been granted Grade I listed status. The 15 giant sculptures - created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the early 1850s for the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace - may not be anatomically correct, but they are of "exceptional historic interest" (DCMS). The Court's walk through evolution was opened in 1854, six years before Darwin published Origin of Species, and caused creationists to throw their usual wobbler. These "terrible lizards" have recently been restored. Small dinosaur fans on their school summer holidays will love them. Entrance is free.
posted by Unknown @ 8.8.07
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5 Comments:
The dinosaurs at CPP are great, I remember liking them rather alot when I saw them as a child.
P.S. are you on 'MY BLOG LOG' as it would be good to add your site to my communities?
Hello, Helly
No, I'm not. I'll see if I can find a way via your Blogger profile.
Hi again, Helly
No joy. 8 million hits on Google for My Blog Log. I tried a couple. The problem with these blogging communities is that they always take ages loading in lots of avatars, then the blog you're looking at has nothing much to say!
Art News Blog (one of my links) belongs to one of these communities. He's well worth a look.
I see you're into psychology as well as art. So stick with Coxsoft Art News. I'm on FeedBurner and FeedBlitz (bad name: it doesn't send you spam; it sends you my blog posts as emails - sign up at bottom of my blog). The orange triangle on my sidebar is a feed to your favourite news reader. I use Google Reader 2 for feeding me art news.
I'm also on Britblog, which is worth joining. It has a long list of British bloggers. (Just do a searth for Britblog in my Blog Search.)
And Technorati...
And....
Hi,
I've been reading Art News Blog for a long time now, I post comments on there every now and then too (as do you!)- so I Like ANB as well.
I think people have to get a 'mybloglog' profile in order for people to join your community and link your blog, it's all a bit fiddly there are so many sites!
I'll check out Britblog too.
Thanks
Blogger is the original, which is why the term "blog" has entered the English language; but it wasn't set up like modern "community" webs. The idea was to give people their own free website without all the hassle and expense of building their own. What I like about it is that you have access to the HTML source code, so, within reason, you can customize it to add your own unique features.
Most of the modern "community" webs don't allow you access to the HTML source code, so you're stuck with what you're given. But they make life very easy to gather lots of friends and join groups. People send you emails saying "I want to be your friend" and you accept or reject them and, if you accept them their avatars pop up on your home page or friends page or whatever.
I tried a couple and found them rather kiddified and artificial. They want to know what school you go to! One thing I noticed was that if a pretty girl posted a photo of herself flashing her legs or showing her knickers, hundreds of schoolboys or dodgy characters promptly wanted to be her friend!
Not really my cup of coffee.
Facebook is currently the biggest community hit in the UK, according to the BBC. I had a look at it the other day and decided not to bother.
If you want to run your own free website, I still think Blogger is your best bet. It is unbelievably easy to set up a basic blog. Then all you need do is figure out what you want to say.
I persuaded the secretary of a local community group to set up his own group blog: Barkingside 21 (on my links). It's saved him an enormous amount of work delivering letters round the neighbourhood. He told all the online members to sign up to FeedBlitz on the group blog, and now they all receive emails automatically. It gives him more time to research and write articles.
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