[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• blogTO plausibly suggests that a corner of northwestern Toronto, in Etobicoke, has the worst transit service in Toronto.
• Charlie Stross' suggested at his weblog that some kind of in-flight depressurization was the only explanation for the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight ML380 that didn't involve human malice. (Alas, as noted in the comments, it looks like malice was involved.)
• At The Dragon's Gaze, Will Baird notes that class O star--very bright, very massive, very energetic--tend to disrupt planets forming in orbit of them.
• At The Dragon's Tales, China's foreign policy re: Ukraine is questioned.
• A Fistful of Euros' Doug Merrill provides a handy guide to 1930s analogies for Russian claims on Ukraine.
• Language Hat touches upon the linguistic controversies surrounding migrations between Siberia and North America.
• Marginal Revolution's Alex Tabarrok celebrated Open Borders Day yesterday. (Commenters disagree.)
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw wonders if war with Russia has become inevitable.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that Panama has just sued Venezuela at the World Trade Organization and counsels against a Ukrainian blockade of Crimea on the grounds that it wouldn't work.
• Registan notes that Kazakhstan's currency is in crisis largely because of its links to the Russian ruble.
• At Window on Eurasia, Paul Goble notes one author's talk about tensions in the Russian Ukrainian relationship and observes online separatism in Uzbekistan's Karakalpak autonomous republic.