[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Anders Sandberg argues that there are good reasons to think that, even embedded in hive minds, individuals may keep some measure of privacy.
• James Bow found Legoland Toronto, in Vaughan Mills, disappointing. A pity; Vaughan is so much closer for me than Niagara Falls.
• Crooked Timber’s Daniel Davies posts another choose-your-own-adventure-style guide to the latest iteration of the Eurozone crisis, this one focusing on Cyprus.
• Daniel Drezner claims that the lack of bank runs, stock market collapses, or much else after the announcement of the Cypriot bank account haircut shows that the global financial system is more stable and mature than estimated.
• The Dragon’s Tales Will Baird announces that the Neandertal genome is online and publically available.
• Geocurrents maps the various expensive and (likely) failed water-related geoengineering projects of Turkmenistan.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer thinks that the risks behind Japan’s mining of methane hydrates on the seafloor make such activity dangerous, but also thinks natural gas costs are such that it won’t be viable.
• Torontoist covers a Syrian-Canadian protest calling for intervention in the Syrian civil war.
• Understanding Society’s Daniel Little considers the ways in which black Americans fare more poorly than their white counterparts, noting that explicit racial animus is not necessary.
• Zero Geography maps the origins of edits to Wikipedia’s Egypt pages.