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Rima Fakih is Photogenic

Miss USA 2010 -- and pole-dancing expert -- Rimah Fakih stopped by the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas yesterday to promote the upcoming Miss Universe Pageant. This is important news because she looks fantastic in a bikini. In other important news, Gen. David Petraeus told Fox News he plans on modifying the rules of engagement for U.S. forces when he takes over in Afghanistan. But he doesn't look fantastic in a bikini, so you know, who cares.

NG Photography: 50 Stunning Contest Winning Photographs

National Geographic always comes up with quality stuff when it comes to photography. NG photographers repeatedly show off their talent for photography and deep understanding and patience for capturing some of the worlds most sunning scenes which are the unrepeatable source of everyday inspiration for all the lucky visitors who have discovered their amazing work. The stunning scenes they capture have the widest variety of motifs ranging from adventure and exploration travels, landscapes, underwater photography to animals, people and cultures and history.

Brittany Daniel Heats Up The BET Awards

Holy shit Brittany Daniel has a tight body. She must be a bitch on set because I don’t understand how she doesn’t get more work in Hollywood. They need to make a sequel to Joe Dirt or something so she can get all white trashy slutty for us and still feel good about herself. See more pictures of Brittany looking smokin’ hot in that dress at the BET awards after the break. P.S. What’s with the dude hair? Grow that shit out lady.

Corvettes at Carlisle American Flag of Corvettes Update

Corvettes at Carlisle, the world’s largest and most prestigious event celebrating Corvettes, will once again celebrate the American Dream of owning a Corvette: August 27-29th at the Carlisle PA Fairgrounds in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Corvettes at Carlisle will create an American Flag made entirely of Corvettes as a tribute to both the dream and the sports car. The display, first produced in 2008, will be even bigger and better in terms of amount of cars and the layout in 2010: 54 Corvettes bigger, for a total of 158 Corvettes - 57 red, 51 white, 35 blue and 15 silver. Half of the event registration fee for all of the 158 Corvettes participating will be donated to Homes for Our Troops, a national non-profit organization, committed to helping those who have selflessly given to their country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries.

This Is Not Photoshopped

This image of easily the largest supercharger ever strapped to a car is real and in no way doctored. We salute these real gearheads of genius below. When Mike Christensen says his Camaro had a big supercharger on it, he wasn't kidding. According to Mike, his dad came home from the junkyard one day with a supercharger so big they could only speculate it came off a locomotive engine (side note, we must know where this junkyard is — immediately). Being bored gearheads, and having a sweet first generation Camaro drag racer laying around, they decided to lash it onto the car's big V8. After custom fabricating intake manifolds, a special order supercharger belt, and quite a lot of tinkering, the engine actually fired up and when Mike blipped the throttle, he blew both head gaskets immediately. Here's video of him talking about it (about halfway through).

Revenge Of The Quadrocopters: Now They Move In Packs

In case you didn't find the original quadrocopter chilling enough, the GRASP Lab out of the University of Pennsylvania has gone and added a bit of cooperative logic to the recipe so that now multiple little drones can work together. Also upgraded with a "claw-like" gripper that allows it to pick up and transport objects, the newer quadrocopter can team up on its prey payload with its buddies, all while maintaining its exquisite balance and agility. Skip past the break to see it on video.

Jet-powered School Time Jet School Bus Sets an eye on 350mph

Some people have outrageous habit of staying in the fast lane, pushing that speed limit all the while. Paul Stender is one daredevil who challenges the limits with his extreme jet powered creations. After the jet-powered cars and the famed Port-o-Jet jet-powered outhouse, Paul’s new creation is the jet-engine-equipped School Time Jet School Bus, which is slated to make presence at the Vectren Dayton Air Show. Powered by General Electric J-79 jet engine straight out of a F4 Phantom fighter jet, the big yellow school bus, which is the largest jet vehicle, does excitingly fast 350mph. This 42,000 hp, 10-foot-high, 35-foot-long bus blasts a 75-foot flame out its exhaust, good enough to scare the shit out of all spectators around, so if you’re at Vectren Dayton, just try and maintain adequate distance from the bus, for your safety of course.

Droid X Actually Self-destructs If You Try To Mod It

Well, I might have recommended a Droid X for big-phone-lovin’ fandroids out there… but now that I’ve read about Motorola’s insane eFuse tampering-countermeasure system, I’m going to have to give this one a big fat DON’T BUY on principle. I won’t restate all my reasons for supporting the modding, hacking, jailbreaking, and so on of your legally-owned products here — if you’re interested in a user’s manifesto, read this — but suffice it to say that deliberately bricking a phone if the user fiddles with it does not fall under the “reasonable” category of precautions taken by manufacturers. Really. If you want to make it difficult to hack, that’s fine. You think your software should be enough, that’s fine. But once I pay money for the item, it’s mine, and disabling my device because you don’t like what I’m doing with it falls under the category of sabotage.

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