[BLOG] Some Friday links

• blogTO lists ten signs someone grew up in pre-amalgamation Toronto.
• Centauri Dreams and D-Brief both react to Planet Nine.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes the new Russian manned capsule will be called Federation.
• Joe. My. God. notes an Italian parliamentarian hijacked a civil union bill by adding a new bill that would imprison gay couples who used surrogate mothers.
• Language Log suggests again that the complexity of the Chinese writing system hinders the acceptance of Chinese as a global language.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes precedents suggesting black Americans could not get away with the Malheur occupation.
• The Map Room Blog shares an evocative map of Boston as a collection of insular–literally insular–neighbourhoods.
• Towleroad notes gay porn star Colby Kelly is now a Vivienne Westwood model.
• Window on Eurasia notes Chechnya’s Kadyrov is sounding increasingly unhinged and warns Belarus is now coming under attack in Russia.
• The Financial Times‘s The World notes the implications of Moldovan instability for the European Union.