[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO lists popular locations for Instagram photography in Toronto.


• The Dragon's Tales updates readers on the war in Syria.


• Language Hat notes the creation of a nursery school functioning in the Elfdalian dialect, in Sweden.


• Language Log notes representations of stigmatized varieties of Scottish Gaelic in the recent fiction of Ken MacLeod.


• The Map Room Blog links to an exquisite map of Mars.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes odd plans by the Republican Party.


• Transit Toronto notes the TTC's installation of Presto gates.


• Window on Eurasia writesnotes a Russian survey suggesting Russians are far more hostile to Islam in general than to the Muslims they know, and reports on the Russian Orthodox Church's opposition to human rights.