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.

Colbert portrait hung at Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery toilet hallway
It's deliberate, and a joke; a portrait of fake pundit Stephen Colbert is currently (temporarily) hanging in the bathroom hallway at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Man, the stuff that guy gets away with, I'm telling you.

200 million Chinese are now online, 20 percent only through phones
I have no additional comment here; just thought it was an interesting statistic.

Gawker posts crazy Scientology brainwashing video
The "indoctrination" video has supposedly been passing from reporter to reporter for months now, but no one else would post it publicly due to fear of the litigation-happy cult. Not Gawker!

Sun buys MySQL for a billion freaking dollars
Man, that's a lot of money for a company that creates open-source software.

Philip K. Dick Award nominees announced
Wow, I haven't heard of a single one of these books! Which of course is the whole point; the PKD Award is precisely for celebrating obscure, cutting-edge science-fiction.

Scientist creates darkest black ever
Made out of carbon nanotubes, the black material reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it; will be used for such things as solar panels, telescope lining and more. (Via MAKEzine.com.)

Record label EMI to lay off one-third of its staff
And so it begins.