[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling notes the terminal problems of Livejournal.


• blogTO names five up-and-coming Toronto neighbourhoods.


• Centauri Dreams looks at asteroids and other bodies in space that might be natural vehicles for travelling between planets.


• Crooked Timber links to a grim analysis of the prospects for the United Kingdom's Labour Party.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a search for Beta Pictoris b as it transits its star.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the importance of Chuck Norris in Ceaucescu's Romania.


• Savage Minds looks at reasons why anthropologists have failed to join in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.


• Torontoist notes the generally low quality of jobs created recently in Toronto.


• Window on Eurasia links to two scenarios for Russia's collapse, looks at conflicts in Russia-Belarus relations, and considers two Estonian novels recently published regarding Russian invasions.