[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith talks about how he made a tradition out of Christmas tree ornamentation over the past twenty years.


• blogTO notes that Toronto's waterfront has major E Coli issues.


• Crooked Timber notes the potential for the recent by-election in London, fought on Brexit and lost by the Tories, to mean something.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a search for radio flares from brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that China has been installing ecologies on its artificial South China Sea islands.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers what it means to be an ally.


• The LRB Blog looks at the complex peace negotiations in Colombia.


• The Map Room Blog shares a map of American infrastructure.


• Marginal Revolution notes a one-terabyte drive passed from person to person that serves as a sort of Internet in Cuba.


• Towleroad notes a film project by one Leo Herrera that aims to imagine what prominent AIDS victims would have done and been like had their not been killed by the epidemic.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the complexities surrounding Brexit.


• Arnold Zwicky has had enough with linguistic prescriptivism.