Jay Leno shared some details about the format of his new show with the press today. Among the "highlights": celebrities racing "green" cars, pre-taped Daily Show type segments, and Brian Williams will be a show regular.

Huzzah: A president at newswire operator Thomson Reuters says traditional journalism is not actually being strangled by Google, blogs and the rest of the internet. And that anyone who thinks so — *cough* AP *cough* — should get a grip.

Budd Schulberg, the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, has died at 95.

Well folks, we're down to the Fab Five finalists: Frenchy, Smarmy, Sassy, Dorky and Snorey. These are the master chefs who can make a stomach sing with joy — but hopefully better than this one does.

• The September issue of Harper's Bazaar features Susan Boyle in her first-ever fashion shoot. More importantly, Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, who appears on the cover of the issue, shoots down the recent rumors that she took part in a sex tape. [Harper's Bazaar, Us]
• Rodarte's Laura and Kate Mulleavy will be designing a line for Target as part of its Go International series. Sweet. [WWD]
• Roberto Cavalli appears to have changed his mind for about the 20th time and decided against selling a stake in his company. [Reuters]

Craig Newmark imagined burning calories with a handheld computer toy; Evan Williams got stoked about a Twitter client and a Chicago Tribune producer imagined Twitter might help her find people who hate Twitter. The Twitterati were thinking positively.

Four years after FBI agents raided his home and discovered $90,000 in his freezer, former nine term New Orleans-area congressman William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson has been found guilty of corruption. He faces up to 115 years in prison. [Times-Picayune]

Matt Mullenweg should be proud; his giant WordPress.com has reportedly earned him millions. But his blog-platform rival, Tumblr founder David Karp, just surpassed him in one key metric. Mullenweg can blame Brooklyn one-upsmanship.

Want to work in one of Scientology's fresh new "Ideal Org" churches? Then get ready to put on your 20-piece uniform, mandatory for all cult staff. Planetary humanity is not going to be perfected by slobs, after all.

Boston-area idiot racist police officer Justin Barrett wrote an email to a reporter repeatedly calling Henry Louis Gates a "banana eating jungle monkey," and now he is suing Boston for suspending him.

• Sam Sifton, the Times' new restaurant critic, answers a couple of questions about his new gig over on Diner's Journal. Meanwhile, Grub Street and The Feedbag sound off on how food criticism has changed over the past few years.
• The 24 stars that Frank Bruni reclaimed during his five-year tenure. [Eater]
• Douglas Rodriguez has parted ways with Nuela, which opens this fall. [NYT]
• Gabriel Stulman's new spot, Joseph Leonard, opens this eve. [Eater]
• The critics: In his third-to-last review, Frank Bruni downgrades Danny Meyer's Union Square Cafe from three stars to two; the Daily News' Danyelle Freeman is more impressed with the drinks at Hotel Griffou than she is with the food; TONY's Jay Cheshes gives SHO Shaun Hergatt three out of five stars; the Post's Steve Cuozzo tears Harbour apart; and Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton heads out to Nick & Toni's and decides the best thing about it "is the parking lot."

Jake "The Octagon" Tapper has updated his Twitter avatar to this photo, which pretty much says it all. We'd be proud too if we could elicit a glower like that from the president, but we'd probably go about it differently.

Daily Intel has unearthed a secret club of gays, at Conde Nast! They call themselves "The Majority" and are as interesting as, say, a company softball team. But hey, we have the original, uncensored photo of these mystery gays!

Historical ghosts ranging from H.L. Mencken to Richard Pryor are weeping up in heaven today, because the nation's premiere combination of journalism and humor, the Washington Post's "Mouthpiece Theater" has been canceled. Dana Milbank is the Icarus of our generation.

Awesome news, everyone: you can make anyone you want be born anywhere you want, in case you need to prove that your boss is not A Natural Born Citizen or something. [Republic of Kenya Birth Certificate Generator via The Awl]

The government is seizing Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park in Florida., to satisfy the debts of the tax-dodging hucksters who founded it. Buy it and finally live the dream of owning an "amazement park" that lies about dinosaurs!

It was super-sketchy Hollywood producer Steve Bing who provided the jet that Bill Clinton used so he could go on his rescue mission to North Korea. If only Bing's Boeing could talk. Not only has the plane reportedly served as the setting for various escapades over the years involving lots of babes and other nefarious creatures like Ron Burkle, it may have also been the mode of transportation for a "secret research trip" to Cuba last week, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sadly, the paper couldn't pin down Bing's involvement in the voyage to a second rogue nation in less than two weeks: "A receptionist at his Shangri-La Entertainment production company Wednesday denied ever hearing of Bing." Well played, young lady, well played. [THR, ABC News]

Bill Clinton gallantly flew to North Korea to rescue Current TV's Euna Lee and Laura Ling from Kim Il Jong's clutches. Who paid for the flight? Clinton's extremely fertile wingman, Steve Bing, the Associated Press reports.

Rush Limbaugh can't seem to bring himself to leave New York City, as he's promised on several occasions over the past year. But he is disappearing ever so slowly. The right-wing demagogue has lost 80 pounds over the past few months thanks to some sort of diet called "Quick Weight Loss," bringing him down from 300 pounds to a svelte 210. At that rate, you can look forward to him vanishing entirely sometime before the end of 2009. [Page2Live, previously]

Facebook has long been the wet blanket of social networks. Its latest bucket of cold water: No more searching for people by relationship status. Because then you might conceivably get laid, and we can't have that.