[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the Global Village Backpackers building on the northeast corner of King and Spadina is up for sale.


• Centauri Dreams and the Planetary Society Blog both comment on the almost last-minute search by the Hubble space telescope for Kuiper belt objects to be targets for the New Horizons probe after it passes Pluto.


• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin speculates that the alleged boredom of Obama in office might be taken as a marker for imminent revolutionary sentiment.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that the protoplanetary disk of protostar IRAS 16293-2422 is composed of two segments, both rotating in opposite directions.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money approves of Mattherw Yglesias' argument that some wars, like a proposed intervention in Iraq, are unwinnable.


• Marginal Revolution has more on the court decision against Argentina for the benefit of its creditors.


• Registan describes what the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is doing in Pakistan. (Putting down roots.)


• Savage Minds features a post by a pair of anthropologists advocating that the discipline take part in a boycott of Israel.


• Torontoist profiles the #parkdalelove Twitter campaign mounted after Mammoliti's ridiculous statements.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a lawsuit by a convert to the church that converted him, alleging that because they publicized his conversion from Islam contrary to his request his life was threatened in Syria.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia annexed Crimea because it thought alternative separatist movements in Ukraine were budding.