Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

Google: "Sheesh, okay, here's how to hide your porn links in Reader again"
Google releases great new feature in Reader, the ability to quickly share your favorite links with the general public (their version of del.icio.us); nerds get bent out of shape, though, over their porn links suddenly going public.

Guess what, book lovers? You're already seen by many as arcane
Nice op/ed by Daniel Green at his blog posits an interesting theory -- that even as book lovers right now sit and argue whether reading will one day be arcane, a big part of the population already thinks so.

Rejoice, Chicagoans: Belmont Army Surplus is open again
Two years after their store was torn down to make way for el-stop expansion, infamous punk-scene clothing supplier finally opens again, a couple of doors down. Yes, that big shiny mysterious silver building.

United Nations teams with Marvel Comics to improve image
I'm not making this up!

Radiohead to broadcast free online New Years concert
Being done to promote the release of the physical deluxe version of "In Rainbows," coming out the next day. (Via BoingBoing.net.)

Detailed look at Google's amazing 2007
Nice article at the "Google Operating System" blog takes a look at all the amazing things Google accomplished this year; videos within searches, faster indexing, customer maps and a lot more.

Gmail, Google Maps both had 90 million unique users in 2007
The other interesting news? Turns out that Google's services do better when they're given cute names -- iGoogle versus Google Personalized Homepage, for example. (Via googlesystem.blogspot.com.)

Stewart: "I don't care about the new Star Trek movie"
Actor who played TNG's Captain Picard makes stunning confession (or at least stunning to fanboys): that he just doesn't care about the new Star Trek movie coming out.

Ted Rall: "NYT alternacomics experiment f--king sucks"
Controversial cartoonist stirs up yet another brouhaha, this time by positing that art-school losers have ruined the New York Times' "Funny Pages" graphic-novel experiment. An interesting read, but one that might offend college-trained artists.