[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BlogTO and Steve Munro both comment on the proposal to introduce time-based transfers to the TTC.


• Crooked Timber links to an Alan Moore interview that touches upon the rivalry with Grant Morrison.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a paper suggesting that the Mars Express probe underestimated the rate of Mars' atmospheric loss.


• Language Log takes another look at the paper claiming Facebook would go away and notes the potential for ambiguity in Chinese sentences.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money observes the success of China in adopting solar power.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen argues that, between good weather and plenty of attractions, Los Angeles is a great city for walkers.


• The News APPS Blog is one blog of many to note on the Ukrainian government's Orwellian dispatching of text messages to protesters.


• The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla notes the sad issues of China's Yutu moon rover, perhaps doomed to an early failure.


• Savage Minds reports on two anthropologists who have written interesting things about the writing process.


• Supernova Condensate observes, in relation to blogging, the important difference between a pseudonym (an alternate identity) and anonymity (no identity).


• Towleroad notes a Nigerian woman who has disowned her allegedly gay cat.


• Window on Eurasia reports the arguments of a Russian clergyman that the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church has been promoting gay clerics on the grounds that they can be easily manipulated by threats of blackmail.