[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos from this year's Boston Marathon.


• blogTO reports on the proposal to make the lower Don valley a new park.


• D-Brief notes the impending emergence of cicadas.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to the potentially cataclysmic consequences of very large impacts on early Venus.


• The Map Room Blog considers the process of mapping Pluto.


• Shadow, Light & Colour shares adorable photos of turtles at the Brickworks.


• Spacing Toronto is skeptical of the Special Investigations Unit.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle reports on the success of a men's knitting retreat he organized.


• Torontoist suggests Parkdale has become an independent coffee mecca.


• Towleroad notes James Franco's statement that he's a little bit gay.