[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares pictures of Church Street up to the 1980s. The street looks surprisingly different, rather less nice.


• At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly describes a week in her life as a writer.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that Stickney crater on Mars' larger moon Phobos is ancient, 4.2 billion years old.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Tea Party e-mail lists--ones coordinating opposition to Obamacare--also seem to share a lot of pseudo-medical spam.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer continues to write (1, 2) about the Unted States' undue problems with residential density.


• Savage Minds' Alex Golub is unhappy that Lawrence & Wishart, the publishers who hold the English-language copyrights to the works of Marx and Engels, are getting marxists.org to take the material with rights they own off their website.


• Torontoist describes how, in the 1960s and 1970s, terrorism by expatriate Yugoslav groups--Croats and Serbs alike--was not uncommon in Toronto.


• Towleroad shares the first single from the new collaboration by Robyn and Röyksopp.


• Window on Eurasia links to a historian who argues that Russia needs a new pseudo-Stalinist campaign against cosmopolitans.


• Wonkman points out that changes in staffing in modern companies--specifically, outsourcing--makes it impossible for young people to advance up the ranks as in the days of yore.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the sponsorship by Google of conferences on Internet policy.