[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly talks about the good and the bad of freelancing.
• Centauri Dreams wonders about the technical issues associated with the Encyclopedia Galactica.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper speculating on how Jupiter would appear if it was an exoplanet.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes a paper examining the tumultuous planetological history of Venus.
• A Fistful of Euros argues that Cyprus’ engagement with the Euro has been marked by the government’s willingness to hide shady behaviour at all costs.
• Joe. My. God. notes the death of out 60s pop icon Lesley Gore.
• Language Hat deservedly celebrates its author’s return to health and blogging.
• Languages of the World’s Asya Perelstvaig notes that sdhe has an online course on languages available.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the lessons of Uruguay’s José Mujica for the left, and suggests that putting populists on pedestals is a losing strategy.
• The Map Room’s Jonathan Crowe approves of the recent book Unruly Places.
• Marginal Revolution shares a revisionist take on the 1943 Bengal famine.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw considers the role of community gardens in modern-day Australia.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer wonders if Grexit will be triggered over so little.
• Savage Minds shares tips on better writing for students of the social sciences (and all people, really).
• Window on Eurasia notes the shattering of the post-Soviet space, suggests further advances into Ukraine are unlikely, argues that Lithuania would be much more likely to face conventional aggression than Estonia or Latvia, and notes Russia’s outlook to the European far left as well as the far right.