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.

BREAKING: AIG to split into parts, two of which will nationalize
Holee crap, it's actually starting to happen; after posting yet another $60 billion loss last week, it's going to be announced later this morning that AIG, the nation's largest insurance company, is being split into several different new divisions, two of which are going to be outright owned by the federal government, and with the Feds ending up owning 80 percent of the entire conglomerate by the time the whole thing is over. Okay, so for those who haven't been paying attention, starting this week the US government is going to own 80 percent of the largest insurance company in America, right at the same exact moment that millions of people are calling for the US to finally initiate a national public healthcare system, and when even the inventors of laissez-faire economic theory are arguing that it's simply necessary at this moment in history for such nationalization to happen. Are you starting to see any cards line up yet? Are they making any kind of pattern to you yet?

RottenTomatoes.com is starting user-review television show
This sounds interesting -- famed film-review website RottenTomatoes.com (a smart aggregator of all the various professional opinions out there) has signed a development deal with Al Gore's Current TV, and how they're doing it is by soliciting amateur homemade film reviews from users that they will then cut together in a quick-paced and funny way. I could see something like this, if done right, being -highly- entertaining, as well as give a better review of the actual film than any studio-bribed junket-junkie hack could. Anyway, Aint It Cool News here has all the details of how to submit your own video, and which films are being covered on the first show.

Illinois Gov: "I want Burris special election bill on my desk in two weeks"
Okay, it's official: Current Illinois governor Pat Quinn has decided to move forward with the shaky legal justification for a statewide special election, to forcibly remove corrupt scumbag sitting senator Roland Burris, as it become more and more clear that he paid a bribe to former governor and fellow corrupt scumbag Rod Blagojevich in order to receive the appointment (all in an effort to fill the now-empty Senate seat of squeaky-clean Barack Obama, making it all the more ironic). See, although states have usually been allowed to make their own rules for this stuff, the US Constitution actually calls such governor appointments as temporary only, until the state can put together a special election and find a permanent replacement; the current governor and attorney general have decided that this is enough justification to go ahead and do just that, with Quinn officially announcing that he would like such a bill on his desk to sign within the next two weeks. This should be...interesting.

CPAC: "Bush was seduced by big-spending liberals! Um, yeah, that's the ticket!"
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, there's being no tears shed over the end of the Bush Regime, even after eight years of those people blindly and violently defending each and every thing the man did; and here seems to be the collective delusion the GOP has decided to belabor itself under, that every single bad thing of the Bush administration happened because he unwisely listened too much to big-spending liberals, and became a big spender too. No, it had nothing to do with the stripping of civil liberties, or the bungling of a natural disaster, or an unjust war, or an unregulated financial market partying its way to its own demise; that's right, every single bad thing that happened during the Bush years was because he was seduced by liberals into embracing a big-government attitude. Every time I think radical conservatives can't get more self-delusional, they frighteningly prove me wrong yet again.

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