[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gaze reports on nearby old brown dwarf WISEP J004701.06+680352.1, just 27.3 light years away.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the finalization of the Eurasian Union.


• Far Outliers notes Bosnian Serbs' hostility to NATO and the UN in 1994.


• jsburbidge writes about the role of Herod as a figure of fun in late medieval and early modern English drama.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the impending water shortage along the Rio Grande.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Iranians can apparently now pay to escape military service, responding to a fiscal crisis.


• pollotenchegg maps Ukrainian use of Russian-based Internet E-mail accounts.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer suggests Chinese patience with Venezuela is running out.


• Towleroad links to an essay looking at the underground gay scene in Iran.


• Transit Toronto notes the impending retirement of the TTC's Orion V buses.


• Window on Eurasia notes a new campaign against the Latin script, concerns that Russian may lose the North Caucasus, and a Russian Red Cross report that the Russian state smuggled weapons into the Donbas republics via humanitarian convoys.