[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the heavy level of pollution in Toronto Harbour following recent rains, and suggests Toronto is set to get gigabit Internet speeds.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her recent vacation in Donegal.


• Centauri Dreams revisits Robert L. Forward's Starwisp probe.


• Crooked Timber speculates that there is hope for rapid action on climate change.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on an inflated hot Jupiter orbiting a F-class star.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a vintage supercomputer pamphlet.


• Far Outliers looks at the collapse of the Comanche empire in the 1860s.


• Language Log looks at the controversial English test in France.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reacts to an overly broad pulling of computer games with Confederate flags.


• Steve Munro reacts to the state of streetcar switches.


• Torontoist looks at a queer art exhibition at Bay and Wellesley on sex ed.


• Towleroad shares a straight-married Scottish bishop's tale of same-sex love.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that remembering the Civil War does not requite keeping the Confederate flag.


• Window on Eurasia notes how few Crimeans identify with Russia and looks at Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian influence on Russia's Finno-Ugric minorities.