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.

EFF: "We're pretty sure NBC secretly tried their first 'broadcast flag' this weekend"
Do you know about the "broadcast flag?" It's a corporate conspiracy whereby networks send out a "don't record this" signal that signal-friendly computers can understand; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation is pretty sure NBC and Microsoft tried it for the first time this weekend, on the season premiere of "American Gladiators" of all things.

Chicago Underground Film Festival turns 15, now accepting submissions
Via GapersBlock.com.

Child celebrity couple have 'Alice in Wonderland' themed wedding
This is the creepiest news I've heard out of Hollywood in a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

Chicago cop gets wasted, beats up middle-aged couple in restaurant
What a surprise -- off-duty Chicago cop gets wasted at a restaurant bar over the weekend, picks random middle-aged couple and beats the sh-t out of them, unprovoked and for no particular reason. What a surprise!