[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTo's Rick McGinnis describes the near-complete state of ruin that Kodak's Toronto facilities have fallen into.


• The Bloor-Lansdowne blog announces that the Gladstone Library will reopen on the 23rd of this month.
• 
  
• Broadsides' Antonia Zerbisias covers the Conservatives' opposition to funding Toronto's gay pride.


• Over at Demography Matters, co-blogger Aslak is pessimistic about Greenland's future as an independent state, not least because of low skill levels and a lack of anything that could serve as an economic base for a new country.


• Daniel Drezner considers the question of whether or not blogging has become professionalized, with static blogging networks. His conclusion? There are always exceptions.
  
• Far Outliers notes the nasty elements of Sri Lanka's defeat of the Tamil Tigers and explores Japan's puppet states in Second World War-era China.
  
• Douglas Muir at A Fistful of Euros covers Uganda, a country that could well become relevant to Europe in some time.


• Joe. My. God lets us know that Poland's Lech Walesa is horrified that Madonna is visiting Poland.


• pauldrye at Passing Strangeness explores the first major terrorist attack on 20th century New York City, the 1920 bombing of Wall Street.


• Spacing Toronto's Jake Schabas takes on the problems with Richard Florida's writing on the creative classes' role in the success of cities, like the question of whether correlation or causation is at work.


• The Undercover Economist's Tim Harford writes about the intimate relationship between complexity and economic success.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that non-Russian immigrants in Moscow aren't assimilating to the extent that they once did and are retaining their ethnic identities.