[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

After a much-appreciated two days' rest, I'm back!

• 80 Beats announces that global warming is accelerating the decay of underwater shipwrecks, like Sweden's Vaasa in the Baltic Sea.


• A BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras reports that Conservative federal minister Rona Ambrose is taking a
  dvantage of the prorogation of parliament to haver a pleasant vacation.


• blogTO's Derek lets us know that the Queen Street streetcar route, 24 kilometres long, isn't going to be split in two after all.


• Laura Agustín at Border Thinking on Migration writes about Italy's astoundingly ill-thought immigration policies in the context of the recent Calabrian pogrom.


• Gideon Rachman wonders whether Hillary Clinton is making much of China's Google issues to try to counteract the impression that she's soft otherwise on China.


• Joe. My. God writes about the worsening plight of GLBT people across Africa.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Robert Farley lets us know that, firstly, the United States has Biblical quotations inscribed on some of its weapons sights, and secondly, that New Zealand will be getting rid of them.


• Marginal Revolution informs us that, in at least some circumstances, South Korean courts recognize virtual currency as being akin to real currency.


• Slap Upside the Head writes that, in what's the ultimate way of proving that a minority is accepted, that Kraft is dispatching researchers to study the consumption of same-sex households.


• Spacing Toronto's Dylan Reid writes about the high number of pedestrian deaths recently in Toronto, and wonders whether the contrasts between recent bright weather and more recent overcast days has confused people into thinking that visibility was better than it was.


• Window on Eurasia writes about the controversy surrounding the use of Latin and other scripts in Cyrillic-using Russia.