Link Loving 19.02.11

• I used to live with someone who worked in SEO, so none of this is a surprise. But if you’re new to the secrets of search optimisation… NY Times.
• Nikolai Grozni on the Bulgarian Revolution of 1989. (I didn’t know much about it either.)
• Jan Freeman on the art of dodging bad words and our love of euphemism.
• Boohoo – the Koch Brothers can’t take a joke. Noam Cohen reporting.
• A lot of talk about nature deficit disorder at the moment, Randall Williams has the story.
• Adam Ramsay on a roll with this fantastic piece explaining why UK Uncut are now turning their attention to the banks.
• Jeremy Kahn argues that the crude reality is that everything is OK. Oil shock, oil schmok?
• Fascinating piece on Sebastian Junger in the Scientific American about war and the human mind.
• The things dreams are made of: India’s foreign minister reads the wrong speech at a Security Council meeting.