[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Oct. 7th, 2010 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldFirst, I'd like to welcome two new blogs to my blogroll.
Blog #1 is Economic Woman, a blog by freelance Toronto journalist Allison Martell concerned with politics, gender issues and feminism, and economics. A good recent post is her "Why do we vote strategically?", wherein she argues that if a vote for one's preferred candidate is considered meaningless a vote for a less favoured candidate will have even less effect.
Blog #2 is Matt Warren's The Long Game. Concerned with issues of science and human beings from a futurist's perspective, one nice post is "The Avatars of Mockery", wherein he links the stereotype-filled Cameron film Avatar with muppets.
Blog #1 is Economic Woman, a blog by freelance Toronto journalist Allison Martell concerned with politics, gender issues and feminism, and economics. A good recent post is her "Why do we vote strategically?", wherein she argues that if a vote for one's preferred candidate is considered meaningless a vote for a less favoured candidate will have even less effect.
Blog #2 is Matt Warren's The Long Game. Concerned with issues of science and human beings from a futurist's perspective, one nice post is "The Avatars of Mockery", wherein he links the stereotype-filled Cameron film Avatar with muppets.
- Anders Sandberg doesn't like the superficial coverage of science in news, and links to a funny article exploring this.
- Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton wodners what the Seattle area would be like if parts of the Pacific Northwest went to Canada. Would Seattle develop?
- Far Outliers' Joel reports on the ways in which Thailand's participation in the Vietnam War helped modernize and integrate the country, the soldiers being key in this regard.
- Geocurrents observes that the general assumption that China's coast is richer than its interior doesn't take into account the differences between urban and rural areas.
- The Global Sociology Blog examines the different patterns of urban development in the globalized world, from slow cities aiming to provide smaller communities to crowdsourced cities making use of the latest information technologies to arrival cities that give immigrants the chance to integrate.
- My co-blogger at History and Futility is very unhappy with recent cutbacks at the university SUNY in the humanities, especially the languages.
- A Language Hat post on the struggles for survival of the Romansh language segues into an interesting discussion about substrates and evolutions of Romance languages.
- Language Log explores the prestige of Chinese characters among non-literate peoples, showing how a Hmong village has much graffiti in the general shape of Chinese characters.
- Slap Upside the Head lets us know about Indonesian Islamic conservatives' extreme unhappiness with a queer film festival in Jakarta.
