Screenshot courtesy YesButNoButYes. From an actual Eliot Spitzer campaign ad.

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.

"Spore" players will be able to send in-game videos straight to YouTube
Wow!

Kate Christensen's "The Great Man" wins PEN/Faulkner Award
And thus is another entry added to my reading queue. Sigh.

New US military motto translates into German as "Air Force Uber Alles"
No, I'm not kidding; go check out the screenshot for yourself. (Via BoingBoing.net.)

Moleskine finally releases a Chicago CityNotebook
All right!

Meet a $5,500 prostitute
So ever since the Spitzer Debacle broke, one question has haunted this nation's minds: "What exactly does a $5,500 prostitute look like, anyway?" Here, the NYT files a profile of the woman in question.

25 percent of all American teen girls have a sexually transmitted disease
Thank YOU, Conservative-Christian sex-education policies!

Rejoice, Chicago bicyclists: "Dooring" now comes with $500 fine
True, even the lawmakers admit that this is almost impossible to actually enforce; it's more about making motorists aware of their behavior, they say, as well as specific future accident lawsuits.

Ferraro: "If Obama was white, no one would be paying attention to him"
First female VP nominee in American history sadly resorts to petty racist name-calling, on behalf of the Clinton campaign. WHY WON'T YOU QUIT ALREADY, HILLARY?

Spitzer: "Please don't prosecute me for being a hypocritical scumbag"
How to know that your life has become derailed? When you find your lawyer arguing publicly that you're "merely" a hypocritical hooker-buying scumbag, not that you've actually broken any federal laws.