[PHOTO] Three front windows of three West Queen West fashion stores

Toronto's West Queen West, along Queen Street West to the west of Bathurst, is home to many small indie fashion stores. Late at night, the front windows of stores like Mericani (630A Queen Street West), WTFash (632 Queen Street West), and The Store on Queen (662 Queen Street West), look almost like art gallery displays.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at some stunning imagery of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.


• Inkfish notes that some jumping spiders do not just look like ants, they walk like them, too.


• Language Log has gentle fun with the trend to develop heat maps for American English dialects.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the idea of disgust as it is made to relate to the homeless.


• Siva Vijenthira at Spacing considers the particular importance of biking for the independence of women.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers whether or not terraforming Mars is worth it. (Yes, but it will be costly.)


• Window on Eurasia suggests that China is displacing Russia, despite the latter's efforts, as the main trade partner of smaller post-Soviet countries.


• Arnold Zwicky shares an amusing photo of the Wonder Bears of Provincetown.

[NEWS] Five links about queer culture, from our history to our presence today

• As VICE notes, it is terribly frustrating that we still have to fight to make sure others do not lie about our queer lives.


• Julia Carpenter at the Washington Post

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[NEWS] Four links from Canada, from Sears Canada to the Avro Arrow to racism to First Nations

• MacLean's Joe Castaldo notes the case for Sears Canada giving executives retention bonuses even as it shorts lesser workers.


• CBC notes another, potentially more successful, search for Avro Arrow models in the depths of Lake Ontario.


• VICE notes the history of white supremacism in Canada, extending to the point of a failed coup by some in Dominica.


• Spacing reports on the Indigenous Place Making Council, intended to secure a place for increasingly urban First Nations in Canada.