[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that yesterday morning's transit crunch led Uber to introduce surge pricing.


• Dangerous Minds links to the Tumblr blog Vintage Occult, which has a vast collection of vintage occult.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig notes how the television show Castle badly misrepresented the Geordie dialect.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a new archeological survey in Greenland.


• Marginal Revolution worries about the collapse of the Schengen zone.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that Dawn has achieved its primary science work at Ceres.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers how Mexico might defend itself in response to a Trump administration. Read the comments.


• Shadow, Light and Colour's Elizabeth Beattie shares a photo of a koi she found living in the sheltered pools of the Evergreen BrickWorks.


• Torontoist examines Toronto's civic tech community.


• Towleroad notes Ian Thorpe did not come out because of media pressure when he was a teenager and looks at a British television documentary about a gay sex club.