[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO explores the lower Bay TTC subway station, built and then closed off decades ago.
  
• Centauri Dreams looks at a white dwarf in our very general neighbourhood that may go supernova relatively soon.


• Charlie Stross considers the question of how businesses can gain consumers' goodwill and how quickly they can lose it.


• Edward Lucas praises Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation and posits it as a model for the future.


• Far Outliers examines how the British and Tahitians managed their 1767 first contact and what things were like on Fiji after the 2000 coup.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Edward Hugh argues that the Euro will face serious problems in southern Europe, especially in Spain.


• Hunting Monsters reports on worrying political tumult in Somaliland.


• The Pagan Prattle reports on yet another revival of the Satanic cult abuse meme.


• Window on Eurasia reports that the remittances sent by migrants to Russia from poorer post-Soviet states have decreased by a third, causing serious issues in their homelands.