Link Loving 04.02.11

• So…that off-shore oil drilling moratorium? It’s gone. And who is in charge? That’s right – Big Oil, explains Natalya Sverjensky.
• After the excitement from the Middle East, is China next? No, says Christina Larson.
• The Onion is so wrong (but so right).
• Craig Scott argues it’s high time to re-examine US foreign policy and who it cozies up with.
• Improv Everywhere are up to their old tricks – this time on a skating rink.
• The Australian floods – before and after.
• Kit Eaton at Fast Company asks us to dream bigger on clean energy.
• Why does Ze Frank love the internet? Because of user-controlled zombie choirs.
• The reality of cycling in London. Glad someone has done this. A system’s theorist would say – this is what happens when you add more information to the flow…
• Adam Ramsay tries to figure out when a President stops being a President? Maybe if your name is Mubarak?