[PHOTO] Bloor/Gladstone aglow

[PHOTO] Five photos from around the farm, Green Gables Heritage Place, PEI

Surrounding Green Gables House to the north is a passable reproduction of an Edwardian farm complex, barn and sheds and all arranged around a dusty yard. All this has been built up in the nearly two decades since I was last at Green Gables.

[ISL] Four links about Islands: Ainoshima and Ed Sheeran, Tasmania, Barbuda, Salt Spring Island

• The Verge notes the Japanese cat island of Ainoshima has a music video in a bid to bring Ed Sheeran to its shores.


• ABC notes new findings that Tasmanian Aborigines have used fire to manage their island's forests for 41k years.


• The Independent notes the devastation of Barbuda by Hurricane Irma.


• CBC looks at the causes of Salt Spring Island's divisions over the issue of becoming a municipality. (The antis won.)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton reacts to the series premiere of Orville, finding it oddly retrograde and unoriginal.


• Centauri Dreams shares Larry Klaes' article considering the impact of the 1956 classic Forbidden Planet on science and science fiction alike.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper wondering if it is by chance that Earth orbits a yellow dwarf, not a dimmer star.


• Drone360 shares a stunning video of a drone flying into Hurricane Irma.


• Hornet Stories celebrates the 10th anniversary of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone!" video. (It was important.)


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if 16 years are long enough to let people move beyond taboo images, like those of the jumpers.


• The LRB Blog takes a look at the young Dreamers, students, who have been left scrambling by the repeal of DACA.


• The Map Room Blog notes how a Québec plan to name islands in the north created by hydro flooding after literature got complicated by issues of ethnicity and language.


• Marginal Revolution notes the rise of internal tourism in China, and soon, of Chinese tourists in the wider world.


• The NYR Daily has an interview arguing that the tendency to make consciousness aphysical or inexplicable is harmful to proper study.


• Roads and Kingdoms has a brief account of a good experience with Indonesian wine.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell links to five reports about Syria. They are grim reading.

[NEWS] Four science and technology links: exoplanets seeing Earth, encyclopedias, robots, gaydar

• At least nine exoplanets now known to us could detect the Earth if inhabited by civilizations with our tech levels. Motherboard reports.


• Ernie Smith examines how the CD-ROM, that ephemeral media preceding the Internet, killed off the classical encyclopedia of our youth.


• Are robots, and roboticization, practical solutions to falling working-age populations? Joseph Chamie is unconvinced, at the Inter Press Service.


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at the remarkable new algorithms which can distinguish between straights and LGBTQ people via facepics.