[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the continuing problems of Toronto's food truck project.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the differences between transit and radial velocity detection methods for planets and the relative advantages for detecting planets in stellar habitable zones, and links to a paper describing how hot Jupiters can become super-Earths.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the changing strategic situation of Australia.


• Marginal Revolution notes that most of IKEA's photo shoots are actually computer-assembled from stock imagery.


• Joe. My. God. notes the impending retirement of Berlin's gay mayor Klaus Wowereit.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that anti-Obamacare red states are hurting their poor citizens.


• New APPS Blog considers the question of what makes happy children.


• Towleroad notes anti-gay persecution by Lebanese police and quotes the mayor of Kazakhstan's capital city talking badly about non-heterosexuals.


• Window on Eurasia notes the emigration of Kazakhs and even Uighurs from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan, touches upon Western disillusionment with Russia, notes the possible impending defection of most of the Ukrainian churches of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and reports on the relocation of a Ukrainian factory to Russia.