[LINK] Some Saturday Links

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• Castrovalva examines the thin line between the livable architectural anti-modernism advanced by the sketchy and the unlivable modernism advanced by the idealistic.


• Charlie Stross writes about how accidental misunderstandings of the concept of the singularity have ended up feeding something that looks quite a lot like a religion.


• Over at A Fistful of Euros, Douglas Muir has started an interesting thread about Romania's generally positive economic prospects that segues into an examination into the competitiveness or lack thereof of Romanian architecture.


• Hunting Monsters takes a look at the very complicated structure sof power within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Might Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be trying to use populist nationalism to outmaneuver the established clerical authorities?
  
• Joe. My. God. reports that MySpace and reality TV star Tila Tequila has taken the credit for the lergalization of same-sex marriage in California.


• Spacing reports about the TTC employee who, by selling fake tickets, may have prompted the TTC to abandon tickets altogether in favour of coins.


• Finally, Strange Maps has a map of Atlantropa, a vast project that would have involved damming the Mediterranean Sea at the Straits of Gibraltar in order to create vast amounts of habitable land on the draine dMediterranean littoral.