[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos of Nuit Blanche.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that relatively recent presence of glaciers on some high Martian mountain slopes.


• Eastern Approaches looks at the ethnically riven Latvian election.


• Far Outliers looks at the grim situation for civil rights in early independent Romania and the problematic democracy of the interwar period.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig maps the distribution of Ukrainians in modern Russia.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Shenzhen is thriving on the basis of--among other things--mobile phones.


• Otto Pohl looks at the history of Communism in colonial Ghana.


• Savage Minds features an anthropologist talking about the specific issues of academic writing.


• Torontoist and blogTO both talk about things that went well with Nuit Blanche and things that did not go so well.


• Towleroad observes anti-gay persecution in Indonesia's westernmost region of Aceh.


• Transit Toronto notes the disruption to the TTC caused by the closing-off of Yonge-Dundas Square for a hockey festival there.