update in mysql select statement

Is there any way to run UPDATE or INSERT inside a SELECT statem开发者_JAVA百科ent in mysql?

Something like this?

INSERT california_authors (au_id, au_lname, au_fname)
SELECT au_id, au_lname, au_fname
FROM authors
WHERE State = 'CA'

More on that matter: http://www.sqlteam.com/article/using-select-to-insert-records