[CAT] Shakespeare, told to sit

[PHOTO] Fourteen photos from Church Street during Pride Toronto (#pridetoronto)

I spent yesterday evening down with a friend taking in Pride Toronto down at Church and Wellesley, wandering up and down the streets dense with people and vendors and venturing over into
Barbara Hall Park and the AIDS Memorial. It was a lovely evening, made all the more so by a late evening sky coloured in rainbow pastels.

[META] On the latest blogroll expansion

Consider this post a consequence of a consolidation of my blogroll, with three posts from older blogs I've added previously and two new posts from new blogs.

• Missing persons blog Charley Ross shares the strange story of five people who went missing in a winter wilderness in 1978.
  
• Roads and Kingdom shares an anecdote by Alessio Perrone about a chat over a drink with a Cornishman, in a Cornwall ever more dependent on tourism.


• Strange Company shares the story of Kiltie, a Scottish cat who immigrated to the United States in the First World War.


• Starts With a Bang, a science blog by Ethan Siegel, argues that there is in fact no evidence for periodic mass extinctions caused by bodies external to the Earth.


• Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, a group blog by Canadian economists, considers the value placed on Aboriginal language television programming.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly photoblogs about her trip to Berlin.


• Dead Things reports on a recent study that unraveled the evolutionary history of the domestic cat.


• James Nicoll notes that his niece and nephew will each be performing theatre in Toronto.


• Language Hat has an interesting link to interviews of coders as if they were translators.


• Marginal Revolution looks at Chinese video game competitions and Chinese tours to Soviet revolutionary sites.


• Steve Munro shares photos of the old Kitchener trolleybus.


• Roads and Kingdoms shares the story of the Ramadan drummer of Coney Island.


• Savage Minds shares an essay arguing that photographers should get their subjects' consent and receive renumeration.


• Torontoist shares photos of the Trans March.


• Towleroad

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[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities, from failing subways to changing neighbourhoods to borders

• The Globe and Mail's Joanna Slater talks about how the subway system of New York City is staggering from catastrophe to catastrophe.


• The Globe and Mail's Stephen Quinn argues it is much too late to save Vancouver's Chinatown from radical redevelopment.


• The Toronto Star's Tess Kalinowski writes about how young buyers are driving a push for laneway housing in Toronto.
  
• Bryan Tucker, also in the Toronto Star, also makes the case for laneway housing.


• The National Post shares a story about an affordable 18th century house on the Québec-Vermont border.