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.

Epicurious now offering clickable map of seasonal produce
Curious about what produce is in season in your city at any given moment in the year? Try the new graphic map at Epicurious.com, that you can sort through either by state or month. (Via Lifehacker.com.)

Financially wrecked Iceland is trying all kinds of radical experiments these days
A fascinating article over at Foreign Policy on the country of Iceland, who in case you didn't know saw their entire national currency collapse during last year's economic meltdown, and whose unemployment rate has skyrocketed eight hundred percent in six months. It's created an atmosphere that's highly friendly to radical new experiments in economics and finance, some of which are covered here in this article.

First-ever teabagger national convention is already turning into a nightmare
Here's a surprise -- the coming first-ever national convention by the hateful, superstitious teabagger movement is already turning into a debacle, with none of the various grassroots groups involved agreeing on who exactly is in charge, who has the authority to decide on convention speakers, what their press policy will be, and a lot more. Man, how nice would it be if the movement fell apart because of infighting over this convention?

Regarding the growing creepy nature of Japan's "Coming Of Age Day"
Did you know that in Japan, all adult rights are granted to citizens at the same time when they turn 20? And that all people turning 20 that year celebrate their coming-of-age during one big national holiday, complete with expensive outfits, spa treatments, and pilgrimages to shrines to pray for good luck? Here, the always great GlobalPost.com explains it all, as well as the latest creepy element of this age-old ritual -- namely, the growing hoards of lecherous middle-aged men who now hang around outside of these shrines on Coming Of Age Day, snapping hundreds of photos of these barely-legal girls as they make their way to and from their pilgrimages.

Slideshow: 15 horrible, horrible, horrible shows under Zucker's NBC
Brilliant -- The Daily Beast offers up a slideshow featuring over a dozen modern television trainwrecks, all of which have appeared on NBC under the tenure of the utterly clueless Jeff Zucker. Joey! Knight Rider! American Gladiators! That creepy cartoon about Siegfried and Roy's tigers! The embarrassments never end!

Best way to protect your luggage at airports -- pack a gun
Wow -- a fascinating article over at Lifehacker, on how the TSA considers a twenty-dollar starter's pistol a weapon, and how luggage at airports containing weapons are required to be registered with the TSA, at which point the TSA takes loving, individualized care of that bag from the start of its trip to its end. Conclusion? If you're flying with expensive equipment like cameras or computers that need to be carefully handled, simply put a starter's pistol in the bag too, to have that bag tended to under lock and key by trained security guards. Talk about the ultimate example of exploiting Homeland Security for your own benefit.

Rush and Robertson prove this week just what a bunch of bloodthirsty monsters the teabaggers are
An editorial at the Daily Beast that needed to be said, on how the violent and superstitious reactions this week to the Haiti earthquake by Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh, two of the biggest heroes of the dangerous hillbilly teabagger movement, is simply proof of what a bunch of backwards, intolerant, apocalypse-embracing animals that entire group is, and how we're all pretty much f-cked if that group ever manages to take the White House again. Don't ever, ever forget, that if McCain and Palin were President and Vice President right now, Haiti would very easily be "Katrina Part Two" instead of the coordinated global effort at relief that it currently is under Obama.

NBC's Ebersol: "We fired Conan because he's a talentless whiner whose show sucked"
And the craziest thing? I'm not paraphrasing that. By the way, Dick, if you're trying to get the public on your side, perhaps it's best not to blame Conan's low ratings on his unwillingness to dumb himself down to us mouthbreathing Midwestern simpletons.