[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Beyond the Beyond, Bruce Sterling reposts some post-modernist revolutionary rhetoric from Québec's ongoing student protests.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster writes about planet HD 189733b, a gas giant that orbits its star 63 light years away so closely that it's literally evaporating.


• Geocurrents notes that recent rioting in Zanzibar, connected to the constitutional status of that autonomous island within Tanzania, may harm the island's lucrative tourism trade.


• Language Hat starts a discussion on the language environment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which despite its origins among the Baltic-speakers of the modern republic was increasingly dominated by Polish-speaking Slavs of one denomination or another.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Eric Loomis blogs about the collapse of Appalachia's coal industry, undermined by cheaper competition and the exhaustion of local resources, making things much for the poor locals.


• The Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín examines sex work from a Marxist perspective.


• Registan's Joshua Foust is quite right to note that Pakistan's prosecution fo Dr. Shakil Afridi for aiding the CIA's location of Osama bin Laden augurs a breakdown in Pakistan's relations with the West once NATO withdraws from Afghanistan.


• Savage Minds' Levi Jacobs posts a summary of a recent ethnographic investigation of Occupy Denver, and what futures are possible for the Occupy mvoement and its successors.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little is skeptical about the consequences of a recent conference concerned with triggering rebirth in Michgian.