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.

Zagat is for sale -- asking price, $200 million
Famed high-end restaurant guide has been put on the chopping block; pundits now wonder if it might soon become the latest victim of the intellectual black hole which is News Corp.

Romance novelist caught plagiarizing HUGE sections of her books
Turns out that author Cassie Edwards has been taking pages and pages of other historical documents over the years and inserting them verbatim into her Native American romance novels, uncited. She claims she didn't realize it was illegal; hmm, I don't know about that.

Philosopher fight! Philosopher fight!
Oh, how I DO love it when whiny academic intellectuals fight! Off with their metaphorical heads, delicate little tied-sweater geniuses!

Golden Globes becomes official trainwreck
NBC tried to cancel the awards altogether. Then Dick Clark Productions tried to extort a million-dollar licensing fee from NBC. Now the HFPA is opening the event to all media. I love watching greedy immoral people turn on each other.

Hells yeah: Justice League of America steampunk action figures
Just...just go check it out. (Via BoingBoing.net.)

Radiohead has #1 CD in the country this week, despite free online version
And that's #1 in the US and UK in the same week, after spending months giving away millions of free copies online. Also, 25 percent of all US retail sales were at freaking iTunes. Zah!