[BLOG] Some Monday links

• The Big Picture shares photos of aspiring K-pop stars.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly notes how being rich and being happy do not necessarily coincide.
• Centauri Dreams features a guest post from Andrew Lepage looking at the potential habitability of more than two dozen exoplanets. (Three look good.)
• Crooked Timber’s John Quiggin reports on the election in the Australian state of Queensland.
• D-Brief notes the numerous surprises associated with the Rosetta comet probe.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper suggesting that near-contact binary star system ZZ Eridani might have a brown dwarf in orbit.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that Uranus’ moon Ariel is warmer than expected.
• A Fistful of Euros notes the potential for change in Greece.
• Language Hat links to an Irish Times essay arguing Ireland stayed much more Irish in language than people give it credit.
• Language Log suggests in a guest post that the Chinese script is responsible for high levels of myopia.
• The Planetary Society Blog features a report by Marc Rayman on the Dawn probe’s approach to Ceres.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer argues that the small Caribbean basin states which depend on Venezuela’s Petrocaribe can survive that corporation’s collapse.
• Savage Minds recommends that writers should read more.
• Spacing Toronto wonders what will be next for the TTC after the decision to let minors ride for free.
• The Transit Toronto blog notes the expansion of wireless Internet across the GO Transit network.
• Window on Eurasia looks at the growth of fascism in Russia, notes the politicization of the Russian diaspora, observes the launching of websites for Russophone secessionists in the Baltic States, and wonders about whether or not Putin distinguishes between lies and the truth.