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Fringe’s Anna Torv Topless for Esquire Magazine

Here’s Fringe star Anna Torv posing half-naked for the March 2010 issue and for the life of us we can’t figure out why the photographer thought it’d be sexy if she took a dump without her top off. Unless of course she’s picking up alien clues from the ground in which case the geeks with the batman shirts that are into Esquire just got a massive erection.

Singapore Airshow 2010

The Singapore Airshow 2010 is a 6-day event that began on Feb. 2. The first four days of the show are devoted exclusively to the trade attendees while the final two weekend days are open to public. The show is held at the Changi Exhibition Centre near the airport. The airshow will host 800 exhibiting companies from over 40 countries. An F-111 of the Royal Australian Air Force showcases a fuel dump and burn procedure during an aerial display.

Marisa Miller’s Ass in Celebrity Flag Football Game of the Day

Celebrities or “Hardly-Celebrities” always try to get into the action. If some big event is going down, they have to do some stunt to annoy the public with, thinking that we care, when really it makes them look like they are latching onto something bigger than them, for a little attention….so obviously when the superbowl came along – they had no choice but to do a flag superbowl for the stars, and by stars I mean Olivia Munn and Marisa Miller who are hardly stars to begin with, they shoulda thrown in that guy from the viagra commercial and one of the Extras on Golden Palace to make shit really legit and all I know is that if I was playing I’d be tackling Marisa Miller too.

Grandpa Builds Mother Of All Homebrew Laser Triggers

A reader who saw Marc's recent post about an Arduino-controlled laser photo trigger wrote in to tell us about the amazing work of Belgian photographer and Flickr user fotoopa (which, we hear, as "foto opa," means something like "photo grandpa" in Dutch). That's him in the picture above, with the awesome homebrew laser-triggered camera rig that he uses to capture amazing pictures of insects in flight and splashing drops of colored water. I'm generally skeptical of film purists, but fotoopa makes the compelling claim that no digital camera has the shutter speed necessary to do this kind of imagery. He claims the Compur #1 shutter used in his 2008 setup has a speed of less than 5 milliseconds.

Amazing Custom HUMMER H3 is Battle Ready

We’ve seen our fair share of custom H3s – but this one is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. While perusing the forums over at Hummer X Club, we stumbled upon this battle-ready custom H3 build that looks like it could go toe-to-toe with any military HUMVEE. Start with an H3 Alpha, swap the door handles and rear-tail lights for military-style ones, remove all the rear glass and fabricate a slant-back, install all kinds of suspension mods, give it a killer paint job, and you’ll end up with this beauty that took over a year to build with some of the best hands in the business. We’ll see if we can gather up some higher quality pictures, but until then, check in on the Hummer x Club thread and congratulate this guy on one hell of a build.

Missile Silo Confessions: Living on the Edge of Armageddon

Deep in the barren Sonoran Desert in the summer of 2008, Drew Reeves drove a back-hoe fourteen feet into the earth. That was as far as he could go before having to hire help and an Excavator — a construction vehicle with a giant mechanical shovel on the end of a huge boom arm. After pulling out huge blocks of concrete and piles of dirt from the hole, the Excavator operator got a little overzealous. “He stretched that boom way too far out and down he went,” said Reeves. Twenty-seven hours and one toppled piece of heavy machinery later, Reeves was faced with a 6,000-pound blast door. “That little tiny Excavator we had down in there, we had to tie a rope to the door handle and give it a little jerk. And it opened right up.” The Titan II missile silo complex was first carved out with dynamite in the early ’60s and manned by a crew whose job it was to ensure our enemy’s mutual destruction should we enter nuclear war. It was later dismantled and sealed up to comply with international treaties. After sitting buried beneath rubble for two decades, the site was ready to be explored.

The Super Sonic Car that Could Break 1000 MPH Record

A series of successful rocket tests in the Mojave desert recently marks another step in the development of a car built to reach 1000 mph. The British team Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is comprised of some legendary land speed experience. Richard Noble was the man behind the Thrust SSC—the car that set the current land speed record. And the man that will slide behind the wheel of the Bloodhound is Andy Green, the former fighter pilot who holds the land speed record for the fastest diesel vehicle in the world (just over 350 mph, back in 2006).

The Geek Guide to Valentine’s Day Gifts 2010

Love is in the air! Or at least, hearts and flowers and overpriced candy and marketing that plays on your feelings of romantic obligation. But whether you think Valentine’s Day is a good idea or not, if you have a significant other you’re probably celebrating anyway. So if that significant other happens to be a geek (particularly a female geek who might find roses terribly uncreative), we’re here to help out with some last minute gift ideas.

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