[PHOTO] Five photos from the Toronto Necropolis at twilight

I would have liked to have spent more time in the Toronto Necropolis, but at this point of the year the cemetery's gates close at 5:30. I only had enough time to dip briefly into the cemetery off of Winchester Street, take a look, and dip out. I need to spend more time there: In the light of a fall twilight, this place is gorgeous.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Architectuul shares the latest issue of the journal Archifutures, reporting on strategies for adapting to apocalyptic enviroments.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait breaks down for readers the import of the sighting of material on the fringes of the event horizon of Sagittarius A*.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about zhush, the act of renewing one's home as winter approaches.


• Centauri Dreams notes the fine-tuning of hypothetical mechanisms for delivering water to the Earth (and other inner worlds) during the Late Heavy Bombardment period.


• D-Brief notes the identification in many ancient human skeletons of deformities likely product of inbreeding.


• Dangerous Minds links to a fascinating documentary looking at the culture of tribute bands.


• Drew Ex Machina reports on the earliest stages of the space race, in both the Soviet Union and the United States.


• Hornet Stories notes that Sasha Velour is off to the Smithsonian to give a speech on the importance of drag in culture.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the parlous environment of the Mediterranean Sea, with sea level rise and pollution promising to make a mess.


• Language Hat notes how, in France, the concept of being "excited" that exists in the Anglophone world and in French Canada may not be represented in the local French.


• Language Log considers, in the context of the recent Sokal Squared hoax, the ethnographic peculiarities of academia.