[LINK] Some Friday links

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• At Acts of Minor Treason, Andrew Barton photographs Montréal's tunnlled Ville-Marie expressway and wonders why we can't do the same with the Gardiner, as well as noting that Toronto's skyscrapers keep growing..


• Daniel Drezner wonders if some regions produce more entertaining summits than others, and observes that Bush would have loved to have intercepted a North Korean ship carrying arms for Iran.


• Hunting Monsters considers the dark past, present, and likely future of the poor community of Hebron.


• Joe. My. God reports that the Indian government supports the decriminalization of homosexuality and reports that gay men in Guangzhou fought police when the latter tried to push them out of a park where they socialize.


• Open the Future's Jamais Cascio considers whether the "Social Transtion Stress Disorder" her created for a RPG system set in 2100, relating to an inability to tolerate rapid change, might exist now.


• Slap Upside the Head reports that the Alberta government has delayed the introduction of new school regulations notifying parents ahead of time whether gay themes appear in school so they can take them out.


• Spacing Toronto celebrates Pages Books, a now-defunct bookstore active for thirty years on Queen Street West until rising rents killed it.
  
• Strange Maps hosts a map showing FDR's vacation route.


• The Dragon's Tales Will Baird lets us know that new thinking suggests that the first farmers in western and central Europe weren't hunter-gatherers who picked up thee technology on their own, but rather that very unpopular migrants from southeastern Europe did. As well, there are international talks regarding the possibility of recruiting China as a participant in a project to build a massive new telescope.


• Torontoist's David Topping tackles the question of how to deal with bikes and concludes that more funding for bike lanes is essential, while Kevin Plummer reports on the Depression-era construction of the old Toronto Stock Exchange building.