[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes an old mansion at Bloor and Sherbourne is being moved to make room for the new.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her routines and rituals.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a catalog of nearby stellar systems.


• Joe. My. God. observes the bizarrely rigid British ban on poppers sales.


• Language Hat notes the remarkable flexible language used in Albanian bazaars.


• Language Log notes a politely-worded anti-smoking sign in New York City's Central Park, partly written in Chinese, and how this differs from the standard.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Central Americans have not benefited from globalized trade agreements, at all.


• Marginal Revolution notes the underperformance of the white English.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla examines the small moons of Pluto-Charon.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer announces the introduction of an economic history category.


• Towleroad notes an anti-trans activist who led the successful fight against an anti-discrimination law, on the grounds that trans people would harass women, himself defended men who took illicit photos of women changing.


• Window on Eurasia notes the Russian government is trying to present sanctions as the new normal.