Link Loving 16.02.11

• Jo Clarke at Otesha UK decides that morals come above prizes, and won’t be entering the Climate Week Awards (brought you by RBS).
• Christian Jarrett looks at the relevance of the Seven Deadly Sins today from a psychological perspective. (I have been trotting out the phrase, ‘today, the Seven Deadly Sins have become the Seven Virtues of Consumerism..’ for a little while.)
• This is pretty rare – an interview with a millionaire asking them if their money has made them happy. Insightful, depressing and hopeful all at the same time. “There’s a saying that buying a boat only makes you happy for 2 days – the day you buy it and the day you sell it – and you can apply this idea to lots of things.”
• Learn about spatial statistics. It’s interesting.
• Nick Pearce smacks down the ugly idea of ‘deficit denial’ once and for all. And he won the Clash of the Think Tanks (with my vote), so you should pay attention.
• Hanna Thomas explains feminism using Kate Nash’s words and what looks like cardboard.
• Penelope Trunk does it again. Funny, informative, and useful career advice as ever.
• Anna Rose has some more evidence for temperature rises down under – birds suffocating in the heat.
• Seth Godin reveals why theme parks make us queue for a ride even if the park is empty, or why a full restaurant is more fun than an empty one, even if you know the food is precisely the same.