[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Far Outliers' two most recent excerpts touch upon the catastrophic failure of Tanzania's one-country socialist project in the 1970s and suggests that the brekadowns in states in the former Communist bloc and in Africa had more than timing in common.


• Over at Inkless Wells I've read that Canada is probably heading for a federal election soon. Unless it isn't--that Harper is such an open guy.


• Language Log's Victor Mair points the reader towards the ways in which Chinglish is used by Chinese.


• Why doesn't Google Maps cover Iceland, Peter Rukavina asks? The government might be offering the ifnormation at too high a price.


• Strange Maps presents the famous Pop versus Soda map of the United States. popvssoda.com suggests that "pop" is the word most commonly used in English Canada. (Is this correct, Canadians?)