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Protesting members of the internation relief group Oxfam portraying Group of Eight leaders belt out karaoke tunes at Sapporo, northern Japan, on Saturday, July 5, 2008. The G8 leaders, representing the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Canada, will descend on this northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Monday for the three-day summit meeting to discuss global warming and the food crisis, among other issues. AP

Protesters rally ahead of G8 summit. AFP.

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), an international think tank, is blogging G8.

Poverty campaign ONE has a g8 theme, too.

Much of the action is happening in Japan, of course.

Edgedwelling: 2 stunningly scary clifftop communities. Cliffhangers, literally, at deputydog.

Meat and Merlot: Wine and health | Of sommeliers and stomachs . The Economist.

Researchers have found that when red wine and meant "mix in the stomach, compounds in the wine thwart the formation of harmful chemicals that are released when meat is digested."

Free mp3s: Marshall Crenshaw, live at The Agora, Hartford, Conn., USA, July 18, 1983 on the Field Day Tour.

It was to be a mill around his neck, that power pop tag. Crenshaw never recovered despite releasing two albums of melodic three-minute pop songs. This show packed in all the classic tracks from those two albums, Someday Someway, his first single, Whenever You're On My Mind [the single from Field Day], the beautiful Mary Anne and Cynical Girl and the terrifically bouncy Rockin' Around In NYC.

Dig to not China: Map Tunneling Tool

Have you every wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you? No, neither have I, but you can find out using this Tunneling Tool.

I spent quite a bit of time as a toddler tunneling through to yellow dirt and thinking I was getting close to China, about 10 inches deep in my Providence backyard.

Turns out, I was only about 7,800 miles from a spot in the middle of nowhere south of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean, marked by the crosshairs in the map at right.

If you live here, now you know too.