[PHOTO] Waiting for the 329 Dufferin past 4 am

[PHOTO] Eight photos of and around L. M. Montgomery's Cavendish home, PEI

There is not that much to the site of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish childhood home, just paths around the sandstone foundation and plenty of trees and a garden, and farmer's fields beyond. It's still a peaceful place, and a beautiful place, hinting at the reasons for Montgomery's love of this corner of the island.

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• At The Big Picture, the Boston Globe shares some of its best photos from September.


• Drone 360 notes that drones are being used to track polar bear populations.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas notes how people too often abandon moral responsibility to the machines which administer algorithms with real-world consequences.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the remarkable story of hockey star Jaromir Jagr.


• The Map Room Blog shares an official guide to map-making from Austria-Hungary.


• The NYR Daily notes how official Myanmar has invented Rohingya violent extremism out of practically nothing.


• Roads and Kingdoms shows readers where you can eat kosher in Mexico City.


• Whatever's John Scalzi shares a tweetstorm of his talking about the problems with daily word totals for writers.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Rob Ford, decolonizing art, Humber Bay bus, Don Valley art, crime

• The National Post notes that Toronto city council voted against naming a stadium after the late Rob Ford.


• blogTO notes that Humber Bay Shores wants to run a private neighbourhood bus service, for want of a TTC presence.


• Andrew Hunter, former Canadian curator at the AGO, calls for a decolonization of art galleries across Canada.


• Joanna Lavoie describes the concrete sculptures of Duane Linklater newly installed across the Don valley.


• At Torontoist, Dennis Duffy reports on the 19th century criminal gangs once populating the Don Valley. Seriously.

[NEWS] Four science lnks: Lake Erie, Great Lakes Water Walk, robotic agriculture, carbon on Earth

• Lake Erie, National Geographic notes, is experiencing regular massive algae blooms.


• Adria Vasil talks about her experience taking part in the recent Great Lakes Water Walk, over at NOW Toronto.


• Atlas Obscura has more about that drone-harvested field of barley in England.


• The early Earth got much less carbon than it might have been expected to from the early solar system. Universe Today reports.