- Beautiful "paintings" in rice crops have been popping up all around Japan. Better than crop circles -- like the Nazca lines, but visible from angles other than bird's eye view.
- The Italian government convicted some Google execs because they "allowed" the father of a boy with autism to post a video of him being bullied by other boys. It was only a six-month sentence, suspended pending appeal, but still, really? Convicted for violating the autistic boy's privacy? Seems a stretch, even with Europe's less-than-liberal speech provisions.
- The Onion parodies Lars von Trier (director of Antichrist, among others) with some angst-ridden and grotesque films made to promote Danish Tourism.