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.

NBC officially opens 2010 Winter Olympics website
So I have to admit, back during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I ended up getting really addicted to the ultra-nice job NBC did with covering the games on their special multimedia site, using for one of the first times in history a Microsoft product that actually worked well (Silverlight, their protocol for streaming video) to provide a grand total of several thousands of hours of coverage all available on demand, and including such cool options as being able to watch four live events in your browser window simultaneously. Anyway, so last week NBC officially opened the site for their 2010 Winter Olympics as well, which promises to do the same plus even more this time, including now high-definition streaming video for those on really sweet setups, as well as the ability to connect to Facebook at the same time and chat with your friends about events as they're actually happening. I'm looking forward to it!

Breckenridge CO becomes first city in US to legalize pot
Dude. Of course, the local law is basically trumped by Colorado state law keeping pot illegal; but still.

YouTube XL makes it easier to surf videos from your living-room television
Are you like me currently using your high-definition television as your official computer monitor? Does it drive you crazy to have to go over to it to navigate browser-sized menus for online video, then go back to your couch across the room to actually watch the videos? Now introducing "YouTube XL," which essentially blows the popular service's menus up to giant sizes, allowing you to surf through to what you want without having to get up from the sofa.

Should the philosophy of Heidegger be invalidated as Nazi hate speech?
An interesting 2005 book is just now coming out in English this year, which is already causing a storm of controversy; in it, author Emmanuel Faye argues that the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger (required reading in many academic philosophy departments) is simply too associated with fascism and racism to be considered actual legitimate philosophy anymore, and that it should be removed from usual reading courses and instead filed under "Nazi History" and "hate speech" in the world's libraries and universities. Here, the NYT examines the validity of such an argument, and the age-old question as well of whether an artist's work can ever be completely separated from their personal lives and beliefs.

Is the rapidly radicalizing Republican Party deliberately pushing out women from leadership positions?
Um, yes. Um, duh.