[LINK] Some Friday Links

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• First, from The Toronto Star, confirmation that two people were shot, one a woman who was hit in the ankle by a bullet, the other a man who seems to have been shot in the chest. Police are still looking for the suspect. (Another, fatal, shooting has taken place in east-end Toronto, outside an apartment building where someone had gotten shot on Saturday. Guess which one will get more media attention in the morning papers.) Cultural capital, people, cultural capital.


• The Lousnbury at 'Aqoul has an extended post ("Ya Rayah...Ch7al nedmou lebad l-ghafline qblek: Southern Med & Socio Economics" on the generally positive prospects for solid economic growth across most of the Middle East and North Africa.


• Roger at blogTo starts an interesting conversation about bike theft from the recent arrest of a used bike shop owner for ... stealing bikes. (Double locks leave me feeling safest.)
  
• Centauri Dreams wonders what the chances are for the discovery of life on Saturn's water-geyser moon of Enceladus and if we're already able to detect it.


• Language Log's Arnold Zwicky isn't overfond of an excess of links.


• Strange Maps features a am f the world as seen from Paris, originally designed by a French magazine and publicized by a Swedish journalist.


• Finally, Martin Wisse reinforced from a recent annafdd comment elsewhere on the extreme subjectivity of the "race" used in "racism."