[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bag News Notes isn't impressed by the scandal aroused by Arne Svenson's photos of New York City condo dwellers taken through their windows--they are open, aren't they?


• Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Chinese science fiction writer Fei Dao about that genre in China.


• Burgh Diaspora's Jim Russell writes about the problems of rural America in keeping talent.


• The Dragon's Tales and Jonathan Crowe both link to the new cartographic map of Saturn's moon Titan.


• Far Outliers' quotes from Chinua Achebe's latest book, this quote a recounting of the geographic and social origins of nationalism in Nigeria.


• Geocurrents notes the patterns and causes of Stalin's deportation of ethnic minorities from frontier zones, from Finland through to Siberia.


• Terrible news from Normblog's Norman Geras, who is currently being hospitalized for prostate cancer.


• Torontoist reports on the multimedia efforts of a Torontonian looking for a cat lost at College and Dovercourt.


• The Way the Future Blogs' Frederik Pohl writes about Brooklyn's joys.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Kyrgyzstan is the latest former Soviet state to downgrade the status of the Russian language.