[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton shares a photograph of a San Francisco streetcar
  
• Eastern Approaches describes how the Serbian ambassador to Turkey was cut off by the protests.


• Geocurrents' Asya Pereltsvaig traces the etymology of book in different world languages.


• GNXP's Razib Khan notes that imagined far futures where humans are recognizably the same despite huge changes otherwise, or where the only changes are superficial or ridiculous, are lacking.


• Marginal Revolution discusses the question of whether the city of Detroit should sell off the works in its collection, leaning towards the sale.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell notes that scientists may have found pluripotent adult stem cells.


• Steve Munro finds it ludicrous the extent to which Metrolinx has exaggerated the job benefits of mass transit system construction.


• Torontoist examines the birth of the Toronto neighbourhood (once municipality) of Leaside as a planned suburb.


• Van Waffle takes his readers on a garden tour of Toronto, with photographs.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Karelians, facing assimilation in their Russian republic, are looking towards Finland for help.