It’s Salmagundi Sunday, where I share the “best of the rest”—great links that didn’t make the cut for last week’s newsletters. Back to regular programming tomorrow!

LINKS

• For August 24: The Man Who Burned Washington D.C.

• Slaves of Happiness Island: death and the pursuit of happiness in Abu Dhabi.

• “When the dead moose floated into view the famished crew cheered…” — The 2014 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners.

• Piece of Cake Still Font is a self initiated typographic project that explores the connections between type and still life.

• forty panes: a documentary potrait of the world as lensed through the works of Wendell Berry (among the producers: Robert Redford, Terence Malick and—this is what got my attention—Nick Offerman).

• 9 Poems Penned by Presidents. Hat-tip: Reader C.

• From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse.

• ▶ 2100 photos over 2374 days…and a triumph over depression and trichotillomania.

• Rob Macinnis takes photos of farm animals as if they are families. Strangely compelling.

• The OECD Regional Well-Being site allows you to measure well-being in your region and compare it with 300 other OECD regions based on eight topics central to the quality of our lives.

• The Forgotten Internment of the Aleuts.

• Research says take a break, take a nap, take a vacation: Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain

• I’ve been waiting to share this link until I have a chance to read it, but… “Getting Over Procrastination.”

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