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.

AV Club: "Seriously, Detroit is a fascinating post-apocalyptic wasteland"
The Onion AV Club files a report from the nation's largest electronica festival, held in Detroit; much more interesting, though, is Andy Battaglia's description of the city itself, and the various Mad Max things he saw that he couldn't believe (including entire skyscrapers that have been abandoned).

Yet another conservative publicly calls for assassination of Obama
In this case it was FOX News' Liz Trotta, making it something like a dozen prominent conservatives now who have either publicly joked about or outright pleaded for someone to please kill Obama before he becomes President.

Doctorow's latest novel sells out in less than a month
Happy news from author Cory Doctorow, featured here at the podcast last week; his latest, NYT bestseller "Little Brother," has already sold out its initial print run, with TOR just now starting up a second printing.

Nearly 70 percent of all American adults now are fat
THAT's going to be changing real damn soon, ain't it?

Scientists: Stonehenge likely started as a royal cemetery
New evidence is making scientists believe that perhaps as many as 250 people have been buried at Stonehenge over the centuries; and not only that, but that it started 500 years before the stones themselves went up.

Military suicide rate is at its highest point in American history
Another sad legacy of the Bush administration -- nearly 30,000 soldiers have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder since the start of the war, and almost a thousand have now committed suicide.