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You Might Wanna Face The Other Direction

UK model and singer Myleene Klass is in Barbados today, and she almost went topless after a giant wave snuck up behind her. Unfortunately she kept all her clothes on, so the bad news is we don’t get to see her naked. The good news is, anyone without enough sense to face the 10 foot waves crashing down around them will end up naked in public at some point, probably soon.

Ice Dancers Are The Angriest People At The Whole Winter Olympics

Last night was the compulsory dance that kicks off the Olympic ice dancing competition. This is the sequence in which every team does essentially the same dance, and in this case, it was a tango. Specifically, a very angry tango.

Bar Refaeli Bikini Pictures are Still the Hottest

Just in case you needed a reminder of how ridiculously hot she is, here are some Bar Refaeli bikini pictures from her vacation in Mexico. At least I think it was a vacation. She spends 90% of her time in a bikini whether she's working or not, so who knows if she's working or not, but the point is, Oh.My.God. Bar Refaeli is so frickin hot I can't believe God would put her on this earth just to taunt me. How does she even get anything accomplished? If I was that hot I'd just stand in front of a mirror naked all day, and get nothing done.

Backstage During Fashion Week

It's the season of Fashion Week, from Bryant Park in New York last week to London this week, and Milan, Los Angeles and Tokyo next month. As designers and their models gather to present their newest collections to the world, photographers are on hand to take thousands of pictures, most during the actual show - with a few photos from the backstage of each show sent across the wires as well. I've gathered a handful of those backstage glimpses from recent fashion shows, most taken in New York, and share them with you below.

Citroen DS3 Racing

Citroën is unleashing a hot new DS3 at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show - the limited edition 200hp Citroën DS3 Racing. Developed by Citroën Racing - the winning team behind five WRC manufacturer's titles and six driver's titles for Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena - Citroën DS3 Racing is a special edition with a 100% sporting pedigree. Planned for the second half of 2010, the exclusive Citroën DS3 Racing will be limited to just 1000 production units. With integrated carbon-trimmed components and specialist motorsports equipment, Citroën DS3 Racing's tuned and turbo-charged 1.6-litre THP 150 engine develops 200hp - a power increase of almost 30% over the standard unit - with a torque increase of 15% from 240Nm to 275Nm. To achieve the additional power output, from 156hp to 200hp, Citroën Racing's engineers modified and optimised the powertrain components, tuned the performance of the turbo and adjusted the mapping of the engine control unit. A special tail pipe and muffler were also added.

Oregon Is First U.s. Site For A Wave-power Farm

The search for clean, renewable energy is turning toward the ocean, but not without some waves of skepticism. Construction has begun off Oregon on what would be the nation's first commercial wave-energy farm, said Sean O'Neill, president of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition, a Maryland-based trade association that promotes marine energy. It is planned to supply energy to about 400 homes. "On a national perspective, it's great news. They're making tremendous progress," he said. Wave power draws from the energy of ocean surface waves, according to Phil Pellegrino, spokesman for New Jersey-based developer Ocean Power Technologies, which is developing the project. A float on a buoy rises and falls with the waves, driving a plunger up and down, he explained. The plunger is connected to a hydraulic pump that converts the vertical movement into rotary motion, driving an electrical generator. Electricity produced is sent to shore over a submerged cable. The first buoy will measure 150 feet tall by 40 feet wide, weigh 200 tons and cost $4 million, Pellegrino said. Nine more buoys are planned to deploy at a site in Reedsport, Ore., by 2012, at a total cost of $60 million.

The Terrafugia Transition- A Street-Legal Airplane

Every pilot faces uncertain weather, rising costs, and ground transportation hassles on each end of the flight. The Transition® combines the unique convenience of being able to fold its wings with the ability to drive on any surface road in a modern personal airplane platform. Stowing the wings for road use and deploying them for flight at the airport is activated from inside the cockpit. This unique functionality addresses head-on the issues faced by today’s Private and Sport Pilots. Terrafugia’s award-winning MIT-trained engineers have been advancing the state-of-the-art in personal aircraft since 2006. Now you can streamline your flying experience with the revolutionary integration of personal land and air travel made possible by the Transition® Roadable Aircraft.

Extreme Test: Going Ballistic on Bulletproof Vests

There's only one way to test a bulletproof vest: with bullets. Of course, any vest worth its hefty price tag has already been certified by the National Institute of Justice, so you can be pretty confident it'll work. But just how much pain will you experience while having your life saved? And what if someone decides to subject your vest to more punishment than it's designed for? In the world of "bullet resistance" (no garment is truly bulletproof), the term overkill takes on special significance. The NIJ recognizes six levels of ballistic protection for body armor; IIIA is the highest rating a soft garment (one with no metal plates inside) can attain. Naturally, that's what we chose to test. We began by the book, at the Oregon Ballistics Lab — one of five NIJ-certified facilities in the US. Instead of strapping the vests on an intern (author's note: that would be me) and emptying a clip, the folks at OBL mounted the armor on a 220-pound block of modeling clay and used a mechanized rig to punish each with six .44-caliber and six .357 rounds. No need to count cracked ribs; to gauge impact, we simply measured the resulting craters. The greater the deformation in the clay, the greater the deformation would be in your chest.

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