[CAT] Shakespeare, looking up while curled

[PHOTO] Panorama, Woodbine Beach, Toronto

My Nexus 5's Photos app stitched together this panorama of Toronto's Woodbine Beach out of individual photos I had taken during last week's photo expedition to the Beaches. It did not do a bad job at all, I think, possible wonkiness in the west aside.

[PHOTO] In the greenhouse at Jewell's, Marshfield, Prince Edward Island

The greenhouse at Jewell's Country Market and Garden Centre in Marshfield, just outside Charlottetown's city limits, is eye-catching even outside of spring.

[PHOTO] Fifteen photos taken along Humber Bay in evening, Marilyn Bell Park and points west

I had intended last night to walk down to the new Trillium Park, but I had forgotten it would be inaccessible on account of the Exhibition. Instead, I found myself walking west on the Humber Bay shores, through Marilyn Bell Park and up to Vimy Ridge Parkette as evening descended. I was a bit cool--I really should have worn a light jacket--but the light outside was superb and the calm sky above awesome.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Centauri Dreams analyzes the latest suggestive findings about water on potentially habitable exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1.


• A Game of Thrones-themed cat bed, as described by Dangerous Minds, is almost tempting. (Almost.)


• Hornet Stories takes a brief look at what the Nazis were like for, and did to, queers.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Texas' secretary of state turned down an aid offer from Québec, asking only for prayers.


• Language Hat looks at the ways in which different African writers have glossed Africa in their works.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper looking at the effect that serious floods have on cities' long-run economic growth.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the discovery of sunken garum-exporting Neapolis off of the coast of Tunisia.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest ventures of the Opportunity rover as winter approaches on Mars.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes the Café Touba coffee of Senegal, sign of resistance to colonialism and globalization.


• Window on Eurasia notes a proposal in Russia to memorialize Muslims who resisted changing traditional value systems.

[NEWS] Five links: Greyhound in Canada, militarized Hamptons, Tohono O'odham, Rohingya, memes

• If Greyhound pulls out of northern BC, and the rest of rural Canada, what will happen to these regions? CBC reports.


• The militarized community policing describes in Bloomberg View in New York's famed Hamptons does say something worrisome of psyches.


• A Bangladeshi observer makes the obvious point over at the Inter Press Service that Myanmar needs to radically change its treatment of the Rohingya.


• Open Democracy looks at how the miliitarized US-Mexican border harms the Tohono O'odham, divided by said.


• This Wired interview with Antonio Guillem, the photographer whose images made distracted boyfriend meme, is amazing.

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes on mass transit struggles and poor planning and demolition in Toronto

• Edward Keenan observes that Toronto is a city that, rather than plan, prefers to make deals.


• Jennifer Pagliaro notes how recently departed planner Jennifer Keesmaat tried to stop the ill-judged Scarborough subway extension.


• Steve Munro updates his readers on the slow progress on streetcar service on the Queensway.


• blogTO has a photo essay looking at past demolition practice in Toronto. Who does it, and how?