Screenshot courtesy CNET.

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 Army policy paper that predicted the entire Iraq debacle
The (liberal-biased) History News Network has reposted an interesting military policy paper this week, written in Feb 2003 and predicting every bad thing that's happened in Iraq, basically ignored by the Bushists when first published.

Cory Doctorow gives out hundreds of copies of new book to teen journalists
Boing Boing contributor Cory Doctorow has a new Young Adult novel out; as a promotion, he and Tor are giving away 200 copies exclusively to high-school-newspaper journalists. Cool and interesting.

Comic: The horrors of drunk Netflixing
I hear ya, sister, I hear ya.

MS has known all along about Vista problems, according to internal docs
New lawsuit has brought a whole new series of internal memos to light (sorted and reported by the NYT), proving that Microsoft execs have known all along how many computers wouldn't be able to run Vista. Very interesting.

Audience meltdown at SXSW, or overblown report via TwitterGossip?
Was there actually a near-riot at SXSW yesterday, over audience reaction to a bad interview of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, or was it just a couple of unruly a--holes who got an enormous amount of press through Twitter? TechCrunch has a good round-up of reports.

Famed corruption fighter has spent hundreds of thousands on hookers
It's the new governor of New York, in fact; even worse in this case because he won on en ENTIRE CAMPAIGN of anti-corruption, even getting called "Crusader of the Year" by Time magazine.