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.

50 Great Works of Literature You Should At Least Watch on Film
A list after my own heart -- fifty classic works of literature that, if nothing else, you should at least see the movie versions of before you die.

Photo: Republican Congressmen caught cheering teabaggers screaming "N-GGER," "F-GGOT"
Teabaggers have now issued ten jihad-style calls for death against liberal Congress members
Teabagger posts home address of Congress member online, urges violence
Two teabaggers caught Twittering Obama death threats
25 percent of all Republicans believe Obama is literal Anti-Christ from the Bible
Can you say "Christian Taliban?"

Steampunk Star Wars costumes
That sound you just heard was me spooing in my pants. (Via BoingBoing.net.)

Google lives up to their "don't be evil" motto, leaves China
Remember when their competitors were claiming that Google's public worries about China's oppressive censorship policies were just a hard-line bargaining tactic, designed to ultimately get them a bigger market share in that country? Well, Google last week proved them all wrong, by literally pulling up stakes and leaving the country, abandoning billions of dollars in potential revenue in order to stand up for an ideological belief central to liberal democracy. A watershed moment for American business, after a decade mostly defined through naked greed and endless douchebaggery.

Why India loves Facebook
Fascinating article on the differing social mores between India and the US, and how the prevailing "in everyone else's business" mindset there makes it a perfect country for a privacy-flattening service like Facebook. (India has the fastest-growing Facebook adoption rate on the planet right now, for those who don't know.)

Nothing says springtime like a Japanese penis festival
Ha ha! Wonderful article on Asian fertility festivals by the always great GlobalPost.com. Think of it as the rural Japanese version of county fairs, only with 30-foot-long phalluses instead of washed-up heavy-metal bands.

Study: More than half of all newspaper articles are fed to reporters by PR firms
And they wonder why their industry is dying.

Google Maps adds urban bicycle trails, option for bike-exclusive directions
All right!

Detroit seriously considering converting 25 percent of city limits into semi-rural farmland
No longer just a liberal intellectual dream -- the city of Detroit has started feasibility studies regarding the idea of literally tearing down an entire quarter of their former city limits (or around 35 square miles altogether), removing all the sidewalks and streets and buildings and everything, and turning it into essentially a giant exo-urban green space full of farms and parks. WOW.