Entry #1671

Check out what our president said to world leaders at the Tokyo G8 summit.

Roger Ebert reviews the movie Mongol, the first in a trilogy by Russian director Sergei Bodrov about the life of Genghis Khan. I’m going to see this on Tuesday, so I’ll report back then. Watch a trailer.

Stuff You Should Know: How to do 100 push ups.

Cool Site of the Week: Abstract satellite images. Click to embiggen.

Mercedes Benz is planning to stop producing gasoline-powered cars altogether by the year 2015.

Morford: You and your puny salary.

"Forbes estimates Ambani's net worth at about $43 billion, below Bill Gates and Warren Buffett but above God and Shiva and most of the major planetary constellations, and his wealth is almost enough to power the entire Iraq war for a month. So you know it's a lot."