[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes five unusual and little-known buildings in Toronto, from supercomputer complexes to hydro houses.


• Dangerous Minds celebrates the electronic duo Suicide.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the reprint of a study refining the basic characteristics of Alpha Centauri.


• The Dragon's Tales notes one paper that seeks to use microwave emissions to detect volcanism on Titan and Venus.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the case for the second-person plural "y'all".


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer speculates that anti-immigration sentiments could be bigger in the United States if Mexicans were, like Russians, whites who could readily assimilate.


• Transit Toronto notes that, as annoying as periodic shutdowns are, they are much better for everyone than the mass collapses occurring elsewhere.