[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture features 28 photos from the South after the recent heavy storm. Wow.BlogTO reviewed the Steak Queen, the diner that gained global renown via the now-infamous Ford video. The restaurant doesn't do well.
  
• Centauri Dreams and The Dragon's Gaze both link to the astonishing news that the cloud patterns of nearby brown dwarf Luhman 16B have been imaged.


• Eastern Approaches explores the turbulent political scene in Serbia as it approaches elections.
  
• Language Hat provides a first translation of the recently discovered poems by Sappho.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money has at Rod Dreyer for his racist assumptions insofar as evolution is concerned.


• Torontoist observes that Ontario's minimum wage is going up to $C11 an hour. Is it enough?


• Towleroad notes the apology of Republican Congressman from New York Michael Grimm, who threatened a journalist who was asking him questions, on tape.