[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• io9 links to an online version of a 1984 text game, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• After disproving the existence of Tyche, Centauri Dreams meditates on the rich data provided on the interstellar neighbourhood by the WISE infrared telescope.
• The Dragon’s Tales maps the distribution of Russian and Ukrainian military forces.
• Eastern Approaches visits the western Ukrainian village of Chervone, a community dependent on remittances from guest workers that finds itself getting along increasingly well with Poland and Poles. (Russia and Russians, not so much.)
• Joe. My. God. notes that seven billionaires on Forbes’ famed list are openly gay.
• Language Log has issues with the reported sensitivity of the new test for Alzheimer’s.
• Marginal Revolution follows up on Edward Hugh’s suggestion that all Abenomics in Japan has been doing is boosting the Japanese trade deficit.
• Livejournal’s pollotenchegg maps the demographics of Ukraine. Despite a significant recent improvements, the west and cities in the center of the country are the only ones avoiding population shrinkage.
• Savage Minds features a post from anthropologist Robin Bernstein talking about how she likes grant writing.
• Strange Maps notes a Dutch doctoral thesis arguing that the portolan charts of the early modern period are much too good to have been done in the medieval period. Are they legacies of Greco-Roman civilization?
• Towleroad notes the testimony of a gay singer-songwriter Justin Utley before a state committee in Utah as to the persecution he has experienced on account of his sexual orientation.
• Transit Toronto’s Robert McKenzie notes the expansion of parking at the Pickering GO station.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell complaints that his Firefox is crashing repeatedly and with frequency aren’t things I’ve experienced yet, fortunately.