Link Loving 06.02.11

• Blake Hounshell -next time you’re a dictator, remember these nine bullet points to avoid revolution.
• Ed Gillespie finds something of a modern-day ‘Seven Ages of Man’ in the new Do The Green Thing video.
• You know about the BRIC nations, have you met the MIST group? Let Simon Roughneen introduce you.
• I knew you know this, but in case you don’t think you know that you know… it’s worth knowing. h/t Niki Seth-Smith.
• Does it get any better? Vegans in a San Francisco Castro District bar watching Oprah. Colleen Patrick-Gudreau is unstoppable!
• This may be from 2005 – but how often do you get a dancing wombat talking about limits to growth?
• Nick Collins reports on claims that scientists have developed the ‘cyber-hug’. Skype anyone?
• Is this the world’s cruelest website?
• Jeremy Williams finds a nice graphic to illustrate our global landscape of risk.
• Damian Carrington scares the living daylights out of us with this story about the die-off in the Amazon.
• Sunny Hundal identifies three key problems with David Cameron’s ‘multiculturalism has failed’ speech.