[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams has two posts that particularly interested me, the first one regarding the use of masers to propel interstellar probes at substantial fraction of light speed, the other one speculating how the moons of extrasolar planets could be detected.


• Daniel Drezner reports on how the Argentine government plans to pay its future bills by nationalizing private pensions.


• Inkless Wells links to a Ross Douthat article suggesting that American Republicans should model themselves on the model of Stephen Harper's Conservatives in order to recover.


• Joe. My. God reports about the frankly unsurprising news that Jörg Haider, Austrian neo-fascist famous for fighting against Slovenes in his native Carinthia and scorning immigrants, had a long-time male lover.


• Norman Geras wonders if the concepts of "immortality" and "not dying" are really the same.


• Spacing Toronto links to a notice of upcoming changes to the Dufferin TTC station and suggests that the Toronto Reference Library should be renamed after urban theorist Jane Jacobs.


• Strange Maps links to one map of the Kingdom of Araucanian-Patagonia and another of Liechtenstein's very complex collection of communes.


• Wis(s)e Words features a news story explaining how, if the Nepalese royal family doesn't pay its bills, the new government will cut them off.