Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto from 1924 — the only hand-written copy of the 21-page document — is up for auction in London. The widow of artist Robert Smithson fears that the State of Utah will permit oil drilling in the Great Salt Lake, endangering Smithson’s famous “Spiral Jetty.” She’s sent out an e-mail alert to arts bloggers to protest the decision by 7 p.m. today, Wednesday.

And every year, flocks of the species commonly known as librarians migrate to a single spot to feed, mingle, send e-mails, drink coffee and possibly mate.