[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• At Antipope, Charlie Stross considers the ways in which Big Data could enable an updated version of 1984.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at all the ways in which this photo of galaxy NGC 5559 is cool, with a supernova and more.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares a week of her life as a professional writer.


• Crooked Timber looks at the potentially dominant role of racism as a political marker in the US.


• Far Outliers notes that the Confederacy's military options circa 1864 were grim and limited.


• Language Log shares an example of a Starbucks coffee cup with biscriptal writing from Shenyang.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the Rohingya are being subjected to genocide. What next?


• Marginal Revolution notes the introduction of a new chocolate, ruby chocolate".


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw has it with ideological divisions of left and right.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the remarkably intemperate Spanish court decision that kicked off modern separatism in Catalonia.


• Charley Ross looks at the sad story of missing teenager Brittanee Drexel.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that now is an excellent time to start highlighting the politics of climate change.


• Towleroad mourns New York City theatre star Michael Friedman.


• Window on Eurasia notes the ways in which Russia is, and is not, likely to use the military.


• Arnold Zwicky shares a map of the regional languages of France.