[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes some interesting-looking apartment complexes scheduled to be built in Toronto.


• Dangerous Minds notes that, in the late 1970s, Debbie Harry wanted to remake Alphaville with Robert Fripp.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that the Hubble telescope directly imaged gas giant 2M1207b, determining its rotation about its brown dwarf primary.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at continuing developments in stealth technology.


• Far Outliers notes some grim Soviet jokes from the 1930s about famines.


• At The Great Grey Bridge, Philip Turner wonders if President Gore could have avoided 9/11.


• The Map Room Blog notes "Null Island", at 0 degrees of longitude and latitude.


• North's Justin Petrone grimly contrasts Estonian newspaper headlines before and after the 1940 Soviet annexation.


• The Understanding Society Blog considers ways of using schematics to understand society.


• Window on Eurasia shares an unconvincing argument that many minority languages in Russia are endangered.


• The Financial Times' The World blog considers the political impact of allegation Lech Walesa was a spy for the Polish government in the 1970s.