I clicked on a blogad thingy for the first time today, just because it mentioned my motherland, Iowa. I ended up at Who is Benjamin Stove?, which is some kind of viral marketing ploy, or online puzzle game, or something. Whatever it is, it's harmless and fun to play along with. The blog is putatively that of someone who obtained a painting, done in 1913 of what appears to be a crop circle, at an estate sale in Newton, Iowa, and is now seeking to figure out what the heck the story is. It's sort of addictive. Someone spent money on this. I wonder where it's going...

Also, inept actor Tom Cruise has been threatening to sue over an episode of South Park which calls Scientology a big fat fraud (which it is) and involves various characters trying to coax Cruise into coming out of a closet, within which he is literally hiding. Hardly a triumph of Wildean wit, but now available online here and here, so you should watch it if for no other reason than to annoy the Church of Scientology and learn the awful truth about Xenu.