Link Loving 03.03.11

• This is how Donald Rumsfeld writes emails. You’d think parody, but it’s the truth.
• Sven Teske on how the energy revolution has already begun.
• Young people moving away from blogging, and sticking with social networking sites. Or not.
• The government’s chief scientific adviser says it’s time for scientists to speak up.
• TED moves into mini-books, and Jules Evans get’s excited about the revival of the essay.
• The US economist Tyler Cowen discovers the Big Society and rips it to shreds. Gleeful reading.
• What banking can learn from biology. Monise Durrani.
• John Deans on the 10,000 Thai protesters mobilising against coal and for clean energy.
• Berlusconi’s greatest ally? The Italian left, argues John Foot.
• Tom Clark reminds us that an election hasn’t been called over a policy change since 1923, and it ain’t likely to happen here soon.