[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Antipope Charlie Stross argues that the publishing industry, beset by consolidations, is trying unsuccessfully to move from an artisan model of literary production to something new. Would that something new could be found and made to work.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that tries to model the atmosphere and climate of the exoplanet Gliese 581g, potentially Earth-like but tidally locked.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the ongoing events in Ukraine.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis maps the political divides of the south India state of Kerala onto caste and religious boundaries.


• Language Log links to a paper analyzing big data in linguistics.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig notes that California is exceptionally diverse language-wise.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Erik Loomis notes that the ability of journalist Nicholas Kristof to be fooled by an alleged anti-prostitution activist in Cambodia prone to making things up fits in a long Progressive history of being easily fooled about things Progressives care about..


• Torontoist introduces the new Fort York branch of the Toronto library system.


• Towleroad's David Mixner interviews GLBT activists in Italy about their challenges.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Eugene Volokh notes, in discussing the underemployment of many minorities at Google relative to their shares of the American population, the ways in which Asians are assimilated to the white majority, at least rhetorically.


• Window on Eurasia links to a Russian journalist's analysis of the consequences of Russia's annexation of Crimea. It's bad for Russia internationally, he concludes, but a good way for the state to consolidate its control domestically.