[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO announces the impending opening of Toronto's first cat café.


• Centauri Dreams shares sharper images of Ceres from New Horizons.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of very distant Neptune-mass planet OGLE-2005-BLG-169b.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the latest from the Donbas.


• Far Outliers notes the spike in surrenders on Okinawa in June 1945.


• Geocurrents maps the relatively balanced oil-based economic development of Colombia.


• Marginal Revolution notes the use of the smartphone by refugees.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer observes the surprising casualty-heavy intensity of Russia's war in the Donbas.


• Torontoist explains the import of the City of Toronto's budget surplus.


• Towleroad notes how a fugitive priest is defending his rape of an altar boy.


• Window on Eurasia notes one moment when Russia could have prevented the fall in oil prices.