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.

Google Chrome for Mac finally coming next month
Well, hooray for that.

JJ Abrams finally finishes reading "Dark Tower," decides not to adapt it after all
Ha ha ha! That's just a joke headline from CHUD.com, by the way, although Abrams really has decided not to adapt the seven-book Stephen King series that RAPIDLY declines in quality in its last few volumes.

Richard Metzger explains why only teenagers and assh-les like Ayn Rand
Niiice. (Via BoingBoing.net.)

Have you noticed that you barely ever have email spam problems anymore?
Hey, yeah, that's right! Here, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn explains why this small triumph of the modern world is worth celebrating, especially when just five years ago it seemed to be an unstoppable disaster that would ruin email forever.

YouTube to start offering 1080p video
Yowza. I'm just trying to imagine what kind of broadband signal one will need for something like this. That said, this is fantastic news for people like me who use their 1080p HDTVs as their official computer monitors.

Even as music executives keep losing money, artists themselves are making more money than ever
Don't believe for a moment the Chicken Little alarmist warnings from the music industry about how their entire industry is about to fall apart -- as this new report shows, it's actually only the overpaid do-nothing executives who are losing the majority of money, with the average working artist in the US actually making more money these days than at any other time in American history. This is a hugely important development that deserves to be paid attention to; it's literal proof, factual proof, that the traditional music industry by the 1990s had become a bloated monster that was actually harming most of the artists who were a part of it.

Rare recording of Tchaikovsky 'punking' newfangled phonograph technology in 1890
Nice -- an old wax recording from 1890 has recently surfaced, in which classical composer Peter Tchaikovsky and various friends end up playing around and joking with each other over what was then a brand-new technology. Click through to hear the actual recording, and to read the English translation.