- 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.