[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton has a photo of the Danforth subway tunnel, looking east from Chester at a point where Pape is barely visible.


• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling writes about a Montréal exhibition of the history of computing.


• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin starts an insightful discussion, inspired by the controversies about same-sex marriage, about the ideological cleavages in France.


• The Dragon's Tales Will Baird discusses exoplanets: briefly, dim orange and red dwarfs frequently have Earth- and Neptune-sized planets but not larger giants, while there are fewer Earth-sized planets than one would expect from the distribution of discovered ones.


• Eastern Approaches notes that clerical sex abuse scandals are starting to break in Poland.


• Far Outliers' Joel quotes Chinua Achebe on the anti-Ibo pogroms of Nigeria in 1966.


• Language Hat links to a site examining documentary evidence of the presence of the French language in pre-revolutionary Russia.
  
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the collapsing infrastructure of the United States.


• Peter Rukavina describes how he used a 3-D printer to print replacement parts for his desk. The replicator cometh.


• Torontoist examines the origins of the name of Toronto and points to Andrew Cash's interest in bolstering the position of precarious urban workers.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell is rightfully unimpressed by the incompetence of British Tory Iain Duncan Smith.