The Dark Knight, Warner Brothers’ sequel to Batman Begins, beat all estimates this weekend by opening with approximately $155.3 million in ticket sales. Was it the most profound film ever made, a step backward or simply an outstanding entry into the superhero genre? The final performance by Heath Ledger is sure to leave fans debating for years over whether his or Jack Nicholson’s is the definitive performance of Batman’s iconic arch-villain.

You might not get a chance to see the film in an all solar theater, but maybe you can drive to see the third installment in a car powered by water? We got pretty excited seeing this video on YouTube a couple years ago, but our friends at TreeHugger give that aspiration a thumbs down. If you really could run a car on water, we’d have seen some real data on it by now.

Teasing us with panaceas like autos you can run on tap water? That’s almost as cruel as The Joker.

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PS: Why is Christian Bale assaulting his mother and sister? Method acting?

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Megan Fox told FHM magazine that she’d rather have sex than go out. She said she has "the libido of a 15 year-old boy" and wants it all the time. As if that didn’t make actual 15 year-old boys excited enough, then she told Star Magazine that she and Brian Austin Green have broken up because she’s too young to marry him.

Subsequently, new Google groups sprung up around the nation. Called "Ready-For-Megan Clubs," the groups rank themselves by the number of hours any given group could keep Megan "engaged." Said the president of Ready-For-Megan Des Moines: "We don’t really expect her to come through here any time soon, but we’ve got a good two or three days in us if she does."

People get crazy talking about Megan Fox because there’s not much on this Earth hotter than the Transformers star. Maybe…volcanoes? Volcanoes are hotter than Megan Fox, but only a little. And they are getting hotter still… as a source of power. Canada is leasing exploration rights to volcanoes as a way to supply green power to the country. In fact, volcanoes might be able to supply 25% of U.S. power.

You have to be careful, though. A German town tried to tap heat from deep within the Earth, and now it’s sinking. Kind of like Mr. Austin Green’s spirits.

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Did you hear? Angelina Jolie has checked into the hospital to have her twins! We’re betting you did hear. Everyone knows. We walked by a taxi stand last night and the only words we could make out were "Brangelina" and "esploder," again and again!

She hasn’t had the baby yet, but thanks to Jack Black everyone is expecting a double-whammy. We may not know when the moment has arrived till a little after its over, though. Angelina has a security laden floor of a hospital in Nice, France, to herself and her crew. Meanwhile, Pitt’s holding the very expansive fort down with the rest of the brood nearby.

The biggest news in progeny has come out at the same moment as the biggest news in forest conservation. The New York Times is reporting a $510 million deal to preserve 500 square miles of former timber land in Montana. As the price of lumber falls, developers have been buying it to build housing. Protecting this forest land and keeping it intact is important, because its one of the only US ecosystems that hasn’t had any extinctions since the Lewis & Clark.

Lewis & Clark? Now those would be cute names for two twins.

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Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to her new baby last week. Poor Britney, even when her little sister has a baby 5 years younger than when Brit-Brit had her first, everyone’s got to write about how all little sis wants to do is not screw it up as much as her sibling has. Yo, pundits… she’s started pushing ‘em out at 17! Britney is already ahead. Sure, Jamie Lynn hasn’t lost custody yet, but it’s only been a few days. Give her a minute.

Sometimes, younger siblings do get it better [See: Wahlberg Brothers]. For example, take solar power. Solar tech is a whole family of technologies, and by competing to outproduce each other, one day, they might get the cost to produce power down below that of coal.

Don’t believe it? Hey, the LA County judges are giving Britney overnight time with her boys again. Anything can happen.

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This is a photo of Steve Guttenberg after Mayor Bloomberg told him that he was going to close Park Avenue to auto traffic on three consecutive Saturdays.

Just kidding, it’s really a photo of Steve Guttenberg after the millionth person asked him whether or not the set of 3 Men and a Baby had really been haunted.

OK, OK, it’s not that either. It’s just a photo of the has-been comic going crazy on some paparazzi. Just another afternoon in Manhattan, really.

That said, NYC really is shutting down Park Avenue. For three consecutive Saturday mornings in August, motorists will not be able to drive Lafayette Street and Park Avenue, all the way from the Brooklyn Bridge up to Central Park. That way, bikers, walkers, runners and roller-bladers can enjoy the route safe from side-swiping cabbies and nasty smelling exhaust pipes.

Some New Yorkers have reacted a little like Guttenberg, above, but we think it’s cool. Look for us in the throwback 80s biker shorts with the big pink stripe down the side. You know, in honor of Steve-o’s glory days.

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1. A Coke addiction.
They’ve already admitted to relying on Red Bull and Coffee to get through their shows. We’d need a Red Bull to get through one of their shows, too, of course, but the point is that they’ve already admitted to chemical dependency. It’s just a matter of time.

2. Haircuts
The boys say they prefer girls who dress well. Great, well, guys why don’t you return the favor and comb your hair. Once your chins start getting fuzzy, you’re going to look really, really bad if you keep up the slovenly behavior. Combs are good.

3. A reality check.
Lead singer Joe Jonas says he was just trying to be cool and have fun until he saw how girls reacted to his brothers’ singing debuts, then he realized that singing was cooler than skateboarding. Here’s the deal, though, lads: you all work for Disney. That means you will never be cool. Ever.

4. The first show in space.
Kevin Jonas says he’d like the brothers to be the first band to play on the moon. We’d like them to play on the moon. In fact, we’d like them to take their whole career (chastity rings and all) into space. For good.

5. Chevy Volts.
If Chevy wants to promote a car with these guys, then give them one that really represents progress. Like their electric cars. Not the greenwashed Chevy Tahoe. Hybrid SUVs are lamer than this new Jonas Brothers video (on-line only).

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We were all just sort of sitting around Beanstockd HQ and plotting a hostile takeover of The Gap’s funky central office when Drizzler flipped it to Season 2 of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew and we saw a guy do a backflip by kicking off another guy’s back. Everyone quit talking and our jaws just dropped as we watched dancers spin all over stage doing stuff that, if not quite impossible, wasn’t very plausible. Whoa.

Turns out it was Supercr3w, a dance group out of Vegas that’s competing on MTV’s b-boy equivalent of Star Search. In fact, one of the judges on the show is Chace Crawford’s BFF. These dancers are impressive, but they weren’t the only ones that struck us dumb (and it really takes something to make the Beanstockd crew go quiet).

Maybe for Season 3 MTV could use Enviu’s new dancefloor technology on their soundstage, so that the energy of the dancer’s can generate electicity. That’s what’s happening at the Sustainable Dance Club. In fact, when the crowd really gets their groove on, the dance floor changes color to let it know their moves alone are keeping the lights on.

With more tech like this, one day, as George Clinton said, funk really will be its own reward.

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Forbes Magazine’s #71 Celebrity Power-Player of 2007, Keira Knightley, is set to reprise Audrey Hepburn’s role in 1964’s classic film, “My Fair Lady.” The film adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” for the silver screen, proving that Hollywood really does have something to teach the literary set. After all, what kind of name is “Pygmalion” for, well, for anything?

When you take on a role originally played by the legendary Ms. Audrey Hepburn, everyone is going to be watching you. Fortunately, Keira knows that everyone is watching her all the time and uses that to her advantage. Not only has she publicly associated herself with Fin, a line of eco-friendly and worker-conscious designer denim, she also likes to go shopping carrying Anya Hindmarch’s “I’m Not a Plastic Bag” bag, so that then, at least, when the paparazzi are forever documenting her latest trip for a carton of fro-yo, at least she can also make a statement.

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The Superficial is calling it: Kim Kardashian’s butt is fake—sometimes. After some careful forensic paparazzocology, the writer of The Superficial has determined she has a shape-shifting behind. She says: you must be crazy!

But, the Superficial isn’t letting up. Its accusation generated a storm of emails, including one from a sometimes-model who says everyone rocks a buttpad sometimes (that’s no excuse for grabby hands!). We’ve always thought she had a weird rear.

Hey, sometimes changing the junk found on the inside is a great idea. For example, Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc., is coming out with an all-electric car, The AMP. How’d they do it? They took the engine out of The Saturn Sky and replaced it with a Lithium Phosphate battery. The company claims that one full charge will cost you about the same as a gallon of gas, but it will take you 150 miles.

If Kim’s butt-pad makes her as happy as replacing an internal-combustion engine makes us, then we say fake it till you make it, Kim. Butt-pads are like zero-emission tailpipes: they ain’t hurtin’ nobody.

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Kate Beckinsale seems to have found her place as the striking star with a believable killing streak. Three Underworld movies, Van Helsing and maybe, someday, Catwoman?

The girl likes violence, so, next up: “Whiteout” opening in September. Beckinsale spoke about it all the way back at Comic Con 2007, but only now has Warner Bros. hinted at a release date. Why? Could it be because Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov has said his company is out of the female-fronted-movie business?

In “Whiteout,” Beckinsale plays a US Marshall who has to solve a murder in Antarctica before 6 months of darkness sets in. Fortunately, it doesn’t stay dark nearly that long in most of the rest of the world, and that’s why you may one day be able to extend the battery life of your Ipods and laptops by taking them outside. Apple’s been caught submitting patents for solar panels that can collect power from behind an LCD screen?

Of course, the tech sounds tricky and mirrors an old Motorola project, so it could be an empty ploy to get the public buzzing about Apple again now that the iPhone’s died down. And hey, maybe Robinov just wanted to grab some headlines with his comment about female leads, too? We hope so. We could handle seeing this woman play Wonder Woman.

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