[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes a running race this summer sponsored by Nike on the Toronto Islands.


• Centauri Dreams argues that the sustainability of technological civilizations should be taken into account by the Drake equation.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that a F-117 downed by Serbia in 1999 ended up sparking a Russian technological revolution.


• Joe. My. God. notes the release of Windows 10, while Wave Without A Shore's C.J. Cherryh is unexcited.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money makes an argument against law school.


• Marginal Revolution notes Venezuela is massively in debt to China.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes 3-D printed houses are not yet economically competitive with conventional constructions.


• Torontoist looks at now-demolished Stollery's at Yonge and Bloor.


• Towelroad notes that Chilean legislators have passed a civil unions bill.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia sees Europe through the perspective of a pre-1914 imperialist, wonders if a Mongolian shift to the traditional script will cut off ties with Mongol peoples in Russia, and notes that a Belarusian national church is still some ways off.


• Writing Through the Fog shares beautiful pictures from Hawai'i.


• Zero Geography's Mark Graham examines "informational magnetism" on Wikipedia.