[CAT] Shakespeare, meowing in the warm spot

[PHOTO] Three posters of the Manhattan skyline on my wall

I bought these posters, neatly framed behind glass, from a now-defunct store in downtown Charlottetown--Zellers?--when I was 10 or so. These posters have remained on my bedroom wall ever since, even after I moved. From skyscraper skylines on my walls to skyscraper skylines outside my walls, I've gone.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the emergent evidence for exomoon Kepler-1625b-I.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the future of technological civilizations: what if they do not always ascend, but stagnate?


• D-Brief takes issue with the idea of the "digital native." Everyone needs to adopt new technology at some point.


• Are Elon Musk and Space-X backing away from the Mars colony plans? The Dragon's Tales notes.


• The Map Room Blog links to a map of massacres of Aborigines on the Australian frontiers.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if widespread roboticization really will increase productivity much.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports on the traditional rum of Newfoundland.


• Drew Rowsome likes a new Toronto show, Permanence, in part for its take on male sexuality and sexual presence.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes that Russia leads the world in cat ownership.


• Strange Company reports on coin-collecting 1920 cat Peter Pan Wass.


• Understanding Society takes a look at the potential conflicts between "contingency" and "explanation."


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at how a Nassau County legislator wants to block a Roger Waters conconcert because of his support for an Israel boycott.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Chinese outnumber Jews in the Far East's Jewish Autonomous Oblast. (Not many of both, mind.)

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links, from rising CityPlace, to queer issues, to Tibetan food in Parkdale

• In The Globe and Mail, Marcus Gee looks at how the new high-rise CityPlace district, on the waterfront, is becoming a neighbourhood.


• Steve Munro celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Spadina streetcar, here and here.


• Justin Ling at Vice reports on the new disappearances of queer men in Toronto that have left the community on edge.


• At the Toronto Star, Ben Spurr notes that the bike route at Bathurst and Adelaide, overcrowded, is going to be improved.


• Aeryn Pfaff describes at Torontoist the historic and continuing important of Hanlan's beach for the queer community of Toronto.


• Tenzin Nawang Tekan describes the importance of the mono for Tibetans and Tibetan-Canadians, starting in Parkdale.

[ISL] Four links from Prince Edward Island, of economics and tourism and past migration

• CBC reports on the recent commemoration of Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale, pioneer of Scottish Catholic settlers on PEI.


• CBC reports on the growth of the shoulder, non-summer, tourist seasons in Prince Edward Island.


• Mitch MacDonald's article in The Guardian looking at the invasion of Nova Scotia by PEI businesspeople is interesting.


• After a recent period of convergence, CBC notes PEI wages have declined to about 85% of the Canadian average.

[NEWS] Four links about science and the future: Caananites, iPod, birding, e-residency

• The New York Times is but one news source to observe the findings of archeologists and geneticists that the Canaanites were not slaughtered. Was the claimed Biblical genocide a matter of thwarted wish-fulfillment?


• At Wired, David Pierce mourns the standalone iPod, an innovative music-changing technology in its time now being phased out.


• Catherine McIntyre at MacLean's describes how birding is becoming hip among young urbanites, in Toronto and across Canada.


• Open Democracy looks at how Estonia is pioneering e-residency and virtual citizenship schemes.