links for 2010-08-25

"Although the Europa League play-off tie was originally scheduled to take place at AEK's Olympic Stadium, the tie was moved on Tuesday after UEFA officials deemed the pitch unplayable. The game was then switched to the Nea Smyrni stadium, which has a capacity of just 11,700. However Panionis fans, angry at their rivals using their home ground, vandalised the pitch last night in a bid to scupper the game."

"Rachel I'Anson is looking for ghost stories relating to Waltham Forest. Do you have a story or sighting to share?"

"What, if anything, the term ‘hyperlocal’ now means is something that keeps coming up in conversations I have and it strikes me that it’s no longer necessarily defined by a tight geographical area, but instead seems to have evolved to describe more of an attitude than a place". great list from Sarah Hartley

"New school year, new site designs. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing screenshots of some of the online college news sites that have put on a new coat of digital pixie dust. If your media outlet has redesigned the web presence over the summer, drop me an e-mail at scmurley -at- gmail.com to be included in the coverage."

Useful, and complex, formula for manipulating URLs in Excel spreadsheets. It was spotting me trying to do something similar to this around 8 years ago that caused Tom Loosemore to issue the blunt instruction "Learn Perl"