Shared items on August 25, 2011
An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently
- Slovenia Launches Supervizor, An Official Public Web App For Monitoring Public Spending (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
from: Techmeme on August 24 2011
- Vintage Automobiles at Pebble Beach 2011
from: Cool Hunting on August 23 2011
- Hitting 52.5 mpg won’t require major tech advancement
from: Boing Boing on August 23 2011
- Zoologists Capture Elephant’s ‘Eureka!’ Moment
from: Wired Top Stories on August 23 2011
- The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow
from: Smashing Magazine Feed on August 23 2011
- Architects’ Sketchbooks: Behind the World’s Most Magnificent Buildings
from: Brain Pickings on August 23 2011
- Hollywood Clichés Make for Sweet Infographics
from: AdWeek: AdFreak on August 23 2011
- On Tumplines
from: The Cleanest Line on August 22 2011
- The Art of Architectural Photography
from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on August 22 2011
- Depth Perception
from: xkcd.com on August 22 2011
- Nick Cave's letter to MTV
from: kottke.org on August 21 2011
- Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?  |  Smithsonian  |  Aug. 18, 2011  |  14 Minutes (3,515 words)
from: Longreads.com on August 20 2011
- Film editing tips – Round II
from: digitalfilms on August 20 2011
- How prevalent is high-ISO photography?
from: Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog on August 20 2011
- Sawtooths Trek
from: Mountain Photographer on August 20 2011
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
from: INHABITAT on August 19 2011
- How to Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
from: Daring Fireball on August 19 2011
- American Girl in Italy
from: Iconic Photos on August 19 2011
- Craigslist Chorales: "Most Kick-Ass Fucking Roommate That Ever Lived" Seeks Home
from: Curbed National on August 19 2011
- Why the Hell Do You People Still Drive?
from: Wired Top Stories on August 19 2011
- Mike Arrington’s Taxes Are Too High
from: Daring Fireball on August 19 2011
- Jon Stewart on Fox’s response to Warren Buffett’s “socialismâ€
from: Boing Boing on August 19 2011
- fancy
from: Abstruse Goose on August 19 2011
- Everyone Is Above Average These Days
from: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan on August 19 2011
- A Mathematician’s Survival Guide
from: Math Fail on August 19 2011
- 'I loved being in the SAS': Sir Ranulph Fiennes – Legion, the Royal British Legion magazine
from: www.legion-magazine.co.uk on August 19 2011
- Paris Review – Harvard and Class, Misha Glouberman
from: www.theparisreview.org on August 19 2011
- The questionable birth of Times New Roman
from: Boing Boing on August 18 2011
- Baby Trashes Bar in Las Palmas
from: Coudal Partners Blended Feed on August 18 2011