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.

Canadian police mistake punk band for terrorist cell
Maybe it's just me, but you would think the Canadian intelligence community would understand that actual terrorists don't go around calling themselves "The Suicide Pilots" in public.

"Crystal Skull" will likely earn $150 million by end of holiday weekend
Of course, let's not forget that the total budget plus advertising for the new Indiana Jones film was a whopping $400 million, meaning they're not even CLOSE to breaking even yet. Next weekend should be very interesting indeed.

Who killed the literary critic?
I did, Salon! I DID!!! And then I spit on their f-cking corpse and burned all their John Updike novels! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

Indiana Jones and the "Yeah, Right, I'm So Sure" Film Review
Dan Coulter posts the most hilarious review of the new Indiana Jones movie I've read yet, pointing out each and every flaw in logic seen in the film. (Because as we all know, the Ark of the Covenant would actually be in an Army storage facility, while Area 51 is run by the Air Force.)

Images: Bankrupt office buildings that look like post-apocalyptic ghost towns
Freaky and cool. Via swissmiss.com.

Holy crap: Dual-touchscreen DJ deck, for digital scratching and beat-mixing
See the images for a better explanation. Via Jason Allen.

Ballmer: "Simply buying Yahoo won't magically save Microsoft"
Cheese And Rice, Ballmer -- did it ever occur to you that if you were saying sh-t like this five years ago, Microsoft wouldn't be in this position in the first place?

US gas hits $4 a gallon, will get a LOT higher by the end of the year
Did you know that a growing amount of economists think that gas in the US might hit $10 a gallon by the end of the year, because of OPEC switching to a euro standard this year? Oh, you're not so smug about that Hummer NOW, are you?

Hillary: "Hey, you never know, RFK was supposed to win the convention too"
Open mouth. Insert foot. Hi, Hillary! Nice to finally see the mentality of her campaign, by the way; just keep sticking at it, in any way possible, and maybe someone will be nice enough to assassinate Obama before the election itself.

Oh, how the crazy apocalyptic conservative Christians have fallen
GREAT article in the NYT shows how the exact apocalyptic conservative Christians that the Bushists embraced so heavily in 2000 are now political pariahs, with the majority of the American public now rightly blaming this group for all the terrible post-9/11 things that have happened in this country.