[CAT] Shakespeare, on his side

[PHOTO] Looking to the top, Manulife Centre

The towers of the Manulife Centre are literal landmarks. How much longer will they be this, as taller towers rise around them?

[PHOTO] Four photos of Cavendish Grove, the former Rainbow Valley, PEI

Cavendish Grove, a winding network of paths through trees not far from the north shore, was built on the grounds of the well-loved but now closed amusement park of Rainbow Valley. It was a lovely space to eat lunch, but a bit disorienting to pass by places I knew quite well--there were the paddle boat ponds, there was the castle barring entry to the park, there was the UFO, over there was the talking owl--only to see nothing there.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a team of students who caught footage of the August solar eclipse from a high-altitude balloon.


• D-Brief notes the discovery that the early Moon apparently had a very thin atmosphere for tens of millions of years.


• The Dragon's Tales links to Elon Musk's descriptions of his space ambitions.


• Hornet Stories notes that many on the alt-right are upset that game Wolfenstein is all about shooting Nazis.


• The LRB Blog notes the almost ridiculous irony of Conservative Theresa May wearing a bracelet with the image of radical leftist Frida Kahlo.


• Russell Darnley looks at efforts to get Singapore restaurants to shift away from using environmentally damaging palm oil.


• The NYR Daily looks at the overwhelming power of the NRA in the modern United States.


• The Planetary Society Blog considers ways we can do SETI better by having a less Eurocentric understanding of our own history.


• Window on Eurasia wonders if Uzbekistan and Kyrgzystan could solve border issues through swapping enclaves.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the corrosive effect of Bannon, and journalistic culture generally, on politics.

[URBAN NOTE] Four blogTO links: mirrors as art, old street signs, old silos, old streets

• blogTO looks at the mirrors being scattered across the University of Toronto campus downtown. (Art.)


• blogTO notes that old Toronto street signs are going up for sale.


• Abandoned silos across Toronto are being refurbished for a variety of purposes. blogTO reports.


• This blogTO photo essay about the vestiges of abandoned streets and related infrastructure across Toronto is evocative.

[NEWS] Four technology links: AIM, Ring of Fire Internet, robotic worms, lunar orbit stations

• Wired mourns AIM, AOL Instant Messenger. For me as with others, it really was a life-changing technology.


• The Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich region of northern Ontario set for development, is getting high-speed Internet. The Toronto Star reports.
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• VICE notes that someone programmed an Arduino robot with a simulation of a worm's brain. This is very interesting.


• The Crux considers the potential import of an orbital Moon station for future interplanetary travel.