[PHOTO] Window display, Yen Phuong Fashion, 1493 Dundas Street West

The window display at the new location of Yen Phuong Fashion, at 1493 Dundas Street West, caught my eye when I was coming back home last night.

[PHOTO] Father Mychal F. Judge Street, West 31st at 7th

This stretch of West 31st Street was named in honour of Mychal Judge, a Catholic priest and beloved FDNY chaplain who became the first certified fatality of the September 11th attack. The friary where he lived is apparently located somewhere on this stretch.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Centauri Dreams notes how disk patterns in young planetary systems, like that of HD 141569A, can mimic planets.


• Drew Ex Machina examines Apollo 5, the first flight of the United States' lunar module.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog uses the infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" incident at Superbowl to examine the important concept of "misogynoir".


• Hornet Stories tells of Sipps, a gay bar in Mississippi, where a bartender took an urgent phone call from a mother wondering how to respond to her newly out son.


• JSTOR Daily tells of the 19th century French writer Chateaubriand, a man whose hugely influential book looking at the young United States turns out to have been mostly fake and substantially plagiarized.


• Marginal Revolution links to a debate over whether Google and Facebook are monopolies.


• Roads and Kingdoms celebrates the Caesar, that Canadian mixed drink.


• Drew Rowsome tells/u> of David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, a documentary about two exhibitions of the man's work there. (I saw the retrospective at the Met. So good!)


• Towleroad goes into greater detail about explicitly gay K-Pop idol Holland, featuring the video for his first single "Neverland".

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Old City Hall, Icebreakers, King Street, accents, Shermans

• Alex Bozikovic argues that Old City Hall is perfectly placed to be a museum of the history of the city of Toronto, over at The Globe and Mail.


• blogTO U>celebrates the start of Icebreakers, the public art event on the waterfront. I will be there--I just hope there will be enough snow for these works.


• John Rieti at CBC takes issue with the misinformation associated with the King Street businesses' campaign against the streetcar pilot project there.


• CBC investigates the harm inflicted on newcomers by how they are treated for their non-standard accents.


• Following the mysterious murder of Toronto billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman, their family has chosen to commit to a very expensive private investigation. CBC reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes from Canadian cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Kingston

• Global News reports that The Atlantic Trap & Grill, a restaurant in Edmonton that caters to a particularly Atlantic Canadian demographic, is set to close down on account of the slowing provincial economy.


• Old shopping malls and grocery stores, like Calgary Co-op, are seeing the value in taking the vast amounts of real estate locked up in their parking lots and freeing them for denser neighbourhood development. CBC reports.


• Got Bannock?, a Winnipeg group that provides free meals to that city's homeless including supplies of that bread, has celebrated its fifth anniversary. Global News reports.


• The Kent Monkman art exhibition, Shame & Prejudice, is currently taking up residents in the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery in Kingston's Queen University. Kingstonians are lucky--trust me, it's a great exhibit. (I saw it at U of T.) Global News reports.

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Freenet, smartphones, exoplanet mountains, kilonova, geoengineering

• Motherboard takes a look at the Cleveland Free-Net, an early bulletin board system that was one of the first vehicles for people to get online in the 1980s, here.


• Wired hosts an article making the case that blaming smartphones for causing human problems fits in an ancient tradition of human skepticism of new technologies, here.


• Universe Today's Matt Williams notes that upcoming generations of telescopes may be able to map mountains on exoplanets. (Well, really bumpy planets orbiting small stars, but still.)


• The kilonova GW170817/GRB in NGC 4993, nearest detected source of gravitational waves, is continuing to brighten mysteriously. Matt Williams at Universe Today reports.


• Brian Kahn at Earther notes that, although one popular theorized geoengineering method involving injecting sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere would greatly slow down global cooling and be good for almost all ecosystems, if it stopped rapid calamitous change would be the result.