[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton makes a very good argument against municipal amalgamation in Vancouver. Certainly Toronto's post amalgamation history is unpleasant enough.


• CultureLab features a review of British science fiction artist Chris Foss' work. Great stuff, this.


• Geocurrents notes the very significant problems posed to Zambian development by the "Congo Pediclce", a corridor of land under Congolese sovereignty that bisects Zambia's core.


• Language Log's Geoffrey Pullum is quite unimpressed by the York University student who claimed a professor made an anti-Semitic comment when he did no such thing.


• The Numerati is right to note that the first cyborgs will be people using technology to recover from illness or injury, the second wave consisting of people envious of those so upgraded.


• Slap Upside the Head celebrates the adoption by Australia of passports which accomodate genders other than the male and the female.


• Torontoist comments on the intruiging-looking Toronto Review of Books, which will review--it seems--everything.


• The Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell observes talk about the people talking about the change necessary for the Labour Party to succeed, noting for starters that the British left really shouldn't take advice from the American left judging by the latter faction's terminal lack of success.