[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that crowd-funded transit might be coming to Toronto's Beaches.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her favourite shopping experiences in Paris.


• Centauri Dreams considers the question of how to name planets.


• Crooked Timber discusses predictions for the coming year which descend into Bitcoin debates.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that giant stars tend not to have giant close-in planets.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper noting the complicated entry of maize from Mexico into the United States.


• Livejournaler jsburbidge notes the serious costs associated with a public housing problem for the homeless of Toronto.


• Marginal Revolution notes that many Poles hold mortgages denominated in Swiss francs, and have thus been hit by the recent currency fluctuations.


• Otto Pohl describes his writing project on the 1966 coup in Ghana.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the problems with inexpensive manned spaceflight.


• Torontoist and (again) blogTO and their commenters react to the end of Target Canada.


• Towleroad notes that anti-gay American Roman Catholic cardinal Raymond Burke is also a misogynist.


• Window on Eurasia argues that a Belarusian revolution would lead to a Russian invasion of that country, and wonders about European Union policy towards Crimea.