[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith has a two part review of some of the fiction that he has recently read.


• blogTO looks at Casa Loma lit up for the holidays.


• Dangerous Minds notes The London Nobody Knows, a documentary of the grim areas of late Victorian London.


• Language Hat looks at how 16th century Spanish linguists represented Nahuatl spelling.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the iatrogenic transmission of syphilis via unsterile instruments during the Civil War.


• The LRB Blog notes the many conflicting contracts signed by the KGB with different television groups at the end of the Cold War.


• Marginal Revolution notes Rio de Janeiro's attempts to deal with tourism-targeted crime by compensating victims with a tourist-directed tax.


• Maximos62 looks at the geological reasons for Indonesia's volcanism.


• Progressive Download looks at the all-woman Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica.


• Peter Rukavina looks at the backstory behind the creation of the village of Crapaud.


• Spacing Toronto looks at how signs asking people to go slow in children-inhabited zones.


• Torontoist looks at where Suicide Squad was filmed in Toronto.


• The Understanding Society Blog looks at the specific experiences which molded the French tradition of sociology.