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.

It's official: 'Ghostbusters 3' to sh-t all over your childhood memories next summer
It's official, according to Harold Ramis, picked up here by Aint It Cool News: A third 'Ghostbusters' movie is in the works, with the original cast turning in essentially glorified cameos, acting as "mentors" to a "new generation" of "wisecracking buddies." Oh, great, just what we needed: Yet another group of greedy middle-aged hacks taking a big giant dump all over our collective cherished childhood memories. Didn't we already learn this lesson with last year's 'Indiana Jones and the Insufferable Piece Of Sh-t Franchise Grower?'

Did Roosevelt's New Deal work or not?
Short answer: "Yes." Longer answer: "But only with Hitler's help."

Microsoft finally admits it: "Encarta sucks and we're closing it down"
Did you know that Microsoft's electronic encyclopedia Encarta is still around? You probably didn't; out of all online encyclopedia lookups in the US in January, for example, Encarta was the destination less than two percent of the time (with Wikipedia being the destination 97 percent). And according to this NYT article, that's because Microsoft never meant Encarta to be much more than simply something that merely existed, so it could serve as an easy-to-advertise bundle-addition to Windows in the '80s and '90s when they were first gaining dominance ("It comes with an encyclopedia!"), and that the actual information in Encarta continues to be embarrassingly out-of-date to this day. (For example, as of today Encarta still lists Joe Biden as a US senator, not the Vice President.) And that's why Microsoft decided to pull the plug for good this week, with the entire project shut down worldwide by October of this year. Goodbye, Encarta; you will not be missed in any way whatsoever.

Coleman/Franken race may remain undecided for years
Did you know that there STILL hasn't been a winner picked from last November's Minnesota senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken? Here, Politico details all the complicated reasons why this is, and admits that depending on which courts they appeal to, the matter could in theory remain unresolved all the way until the next senate election there. Sheesh. Welcome to the contemporary state of American politics.

New head of MySpace doesn't have a MySpace account
Uh-huh. What a surprise.

Co-funder of Proposition 8 quits Republican Party
A legitimate shocker: Billionaire evangelical Howard Ahmanson, one of the three major funders of California's successful Proposition 8 last fall (you know, the one that banned gay marriages) and a self-declared believer of Creationism, has officially joined the Democratic Party this week, all the way down to declaring flat-out about the post-Bush GOP, "This is no longer my party." Among other interesting tidbits in this Daily Beast interview: He's positive he'll find other Creationist Democrats; he's secretly rooting for Bobby Jindal to make a 2012 presidential run; he believes Christianity and environmentalism go hand-in-hand; and he can't stand liberal so-called "seeker" churches sprouting up more and more within the evangelical movement. Make no mistake -- THIS IS BIG, BIG NEWS, when even a conservative this dyed-in-the-wool is jumping the Republican ship.