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.

The new world of New Weird
UK paper The Guardian does a nice writeup and overview of the so-called "New Weird," and why it is that so many seemingly exciting things in literature these days are all happening within genre novels.

Southwest Airlines to start offering free WiFi on planes this summer
New test starts rolling on a growing amount of planes this summer; you will need your own computing device to take advantage of it, just like at a cafe or whatnot.

Rumsfeld calls for US Propaganda Agency -- no, I'm not making that up
Just read this article for the flabbergasting details.

The strange but true story of the "Goth Bonnie and Clyde"
Straightedge goth couple into RPGs and fantasy lit rob an armored vehicle for $7 million, just to get caught a day later and less than 400 miles away. What happened? Interesting article in the NYT tells the whole story.

Single French bank exec gets away with $7 billion swindle
Stunning announcement today by second largest bank in France -- that not only have they discovered they've been swindled out of 7 billion dollars, but that it was a single employee who did it. Amazing.

Digg finally implodes
A collection of nutjob heavy users at Digg post an open letter at Valleywag, finally confirm the thing we've all known for years; that the site is a giant game, and has nothing whatsoever to do with "citizen journalism." I don't even know what to make of this.

NBC officially kills their entre "pilot" show-development process
Claims that the process now costs them more than $50 million a year, resulting in no more than a handful of new shows, most of which eventually get canceled; too slow, too costly, they claim, with something radically new needed, especially in light of current WGA strike.

MPAA confesses to lying about college-downloading report
Has claimed for the last three years that college downloading accounts for 44 percent of all American piracy; now they've been busted, forced to confess publicly that the number is actually 15 percent and that they've been flat-out lying the entire time.

Today is 10th anniversary of events that led to Mozilla
Today is the tenth anniversary of Netscape's announcement to open-source their browser code; that led to the start of the Mozilla Corporation, which led to Firefox and other great apps.

Wal-Mart: "Hooray, only 49.8 percent of our employees now are uninsured!"
Wal-Mart tries to trumpet the fact that for the first time in history, over 50 percent of their employees now have health insurance; I don't know about you, though, but the news makes me sad and angry instead.