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.

Cory Doctorow's entire ouevre now available through DailyLit
DailyLit.com, the excellent online service that delivers novels by email, five pages a day, now has the entire works of sci-fi author Cory Doctorow for free subscription. All right!

British author denied US entry for being "immoral"
NO, I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP -- British memoirist Sebastian Horsley, trying to enter US to promote his new book, is denied entry by Homeland Security for being an "immoral person." Unf-ckingbelievable.

Tribune TV columnist: "Good Lord, even I have a wacky LOST theory now"
Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune TV columnist, pens a nice article about why season 4 of LOST has been so fantastic, and then admits that she too has become a crazy little theory-creating fangirl.

"American Idol" has twice as many viewers as anything else on television
And the death of American culture keeps tromping forward like a pack of unstoppable stormtroopers.

Two Chicago art dealers busted for selling thousands of fake lithographs
It was an international forgery ring of seven, and prosecutors say they might've sold up to $5 million worth of fake fine-art lithographs, along with fake provenance certificates and more.

Adobe: "Oh, wait, we can't build Flash for iPhone after all"
Adobe publicly clarifies statements made by its CEO this week; they're not ACTUALLY developing Flash for iPhone through Apple's SDK, just that they WANT to, but need Apple's help which Apple doesn't want to give.

US' #2 bookstore chain is close to bankruptcy, might will sell itself this year
It's Borders, and why is it that I can't manage to drum up any sympathy for them? Oh yeah, that's right, because they got big in the first place by driving independent bookstores out of business using shady, quasi-legal practices.

Starbucks CEO: "Our stores are mediocre and are ruled by bureaucracy"
Hey, HE said it, not ME!

Sci Fi Channel green-lights 'Battlestar Galactica' prequel 'Caprica'
The futuristic family drama was first pitched and rejected years ago; but the writer's strike I guess changed the minds of Sci Fi Channel executives.

Build an urban garden for under $50
Here, instructions for building a "square-foot" style garden bed for under $50, allowing city-dwellers to grow plants on their back porch. (Via Lifehacker.com.)