[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers old friends.


• Centauri Dreams considers the search for extraterrestrial civilizations using infrared astronomy, concentrating on Dyson spheres and the like.


• The Dragon's Gaze has two links to papers looking at unusual brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the flora of late Permian Antarctica.


• Language Log notes a potentially problematic effort at Bangladesh to put hundreds of thousands of Bengali words online with Google, ready for translators. What of quality control, Victor Mair asks?


• Lawyers, Guns and Money comments on the Burmese slaves in the Thai fisheries and looks at the desperate last efforts of Confederates to persist.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that air conditioning really didn't drive much interstate migration in the United States.


• The Planetary Society Blog observes discoveries and anticipation for more at Ceres and Pluto.


• Savage Minds looks to the example of Lesotho to point out that giving people land title by no means necessarily helps them out of poverty.


• Torontoist looks at the Prism music video prize.