[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares a visual history of the Toronto Islands. (I really will have to get there this year.)


• At Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly draws lessons from the experience of a journalist who literally overworked himself to death. When should people note their limits?


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that close-orbiting hot Neptune GJ 436b, even with its comet-like tail produced by heating from its sun, isn't going to lose its atmosphere.


• Eastern Approaches notes that Poland's Donald Tusk is presiding over new military spending inspired by the Ukrainian crisis.


• The Financial Times' The World blog and Eastern Approaches both deal with the international consequences of ongoing Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine, the former calling for broad sanctions.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if the Russian-majority city of Narva in northeastern Estonia will be the next target of Russia.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer discusses the implication of Russian gas price increases for Ukraine.


• Torontoist notes the impact of CBC's announced job cuts.


• Towleroad links to a teaser for the new HBO movie version of The Lonely Heart and reports on Barbra Streisand's explanation as to why she couldn't get the movie made.


• Une heure de peine's Denis Colombi writes (in French) about the sociology of working hours in France and among the French.


• Window on Eurasia argues that rising xenophobia in Russia is alienating many non-Russians and reports on one Russia who argues that there isn't a necessary conflict between liberalism and imperialism.