I share many of the more interesting items I stumble across on the web through the “recommended reading” sidebar which is powered by Google Reader.  I also include short snippets of the articles on my Read page and you can view the whole articles on my Google Reader Shared Page.

Here are some of the best from this past week:

Art + Entertainment

• Review of Japanese movie The Taste of Tea. [Uberdionysus]
• David Byrne experiences an LA suburb. [David Byrne's Journal]
• Great clip from new This American Life TV show with animation by the amazing Chris Ware. [Kottke]

Technology

• Adobe launches their new Apollo platform which promises to further integrate the web and the desktop. [TechCrunch]
• View census data in Google Earth. [LifeHacker]
• Too much overhead keeping the blog from being updated (like me)? Tumblr might be a good solution. [LifeHacker]