[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Thanks to Andrew Barton for expressing his heartfelt desire--in bold, no less--that Toronto not elect Ford mayor. This sympathy counts.


• On a happier note, Derek Flack at blogTO photoblogs some of Toronto's hidden streets.


• Extraordinary Observation's Rob Pitingolo makes the salient point that biking laws need to be followed by cyclists and enforced by governments.


• Far Outliers observes how Thai soldiers in the Vietnam War found South Vietnam, with its distinctive religious and cultural traditions, far more foreign than Laos.


• Geocurrents observes that the Philippines' Subic Bay is now the centre of a Korean community amounting to one hundred thousand in the country.


• Understanding Society notes that China's hoping to move upwards up the value-added chain as its economy continues to grow.