[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO identify five neighbourhoods in downtownish Toronto with cheap rent.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes one paper suggesting Earth-like worlds may need both ocean and rocky surfaces to be habitable.


• The Dragon's Tales reports that Pluto's Sputnik Planum is apparently less than ten million years old.


• Geocurrents begins an interesting regional schema of California.


• Language Log notes a Hong Kong ad that blends Chinese and Japanese remarkably.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that societies with low inequality report higher levels of happiness than others.


• The Map Room points to the lovely Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands.


• Marginal Revolution wonders why Amazon book reviews are so dominated by American reviewers.


• Savage Minds considers, after Björk, the ecopoetics of physical geology data.


• Window on Eurasia commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Vilnius massacre.


• The Financial Times' The World blog looks at Leo, the dog of the Cypriot president.