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Emmy Rossum Works It

These pictures are kind of confusing me, it looks like on-again off-again cutie Emmy Rossum is working out at the track, but that can’t be right. Don’t Hollywood hotties just put on some sexy yoga pants and a sports bra and walk around to make it look like they’ve just come from the gym? I’m lost. At least she’s making an effort and giving us a decent look at the goods while she does is. Keep up the good work.

frying Pan Planets

I just saw a short clip on the size of our Milky Way galaxy as compared to others (spoiler: it’s really tiny) and it got me thinking about planets. And kitchen implements. This is convenient because Norwegian photographer Christopher Jonassen is in the business of creating alien planets from the most unlikeliest of sources — the bottoms of worn out frying pans! In his Devour series, Jonassen uses a simple background to bring the scarred, weathered frying pans into a new light.

Carmen Electra - Still Hot. Still Too Good for Us

Blah, blah, Carmen Electra is still too hot for us, blah. I cannot believe that she is still so amazing. The poster of her that I ... admire... every night looks exactly like the gallery below. It's incredible. I guess money does buy happiness. I.e., the ability to not age. And cool stuff.

The Strange Elegance of the Giraffe-Necked Antelope

Found in Eastern Africa ranging from Somalia to Kenya there is a slightly odd looking long-necked creature that is reminiscent of a giraffe but that is one thing it most certainly is not. With large eyes and ears and an incredibly slender neck, you may be forgiven for thinking that the Giraffe-necked Antelope was actually thought up in the Disney Studio rather than occurring in the wild steppes of East Africa. This unusual and elegant beast is a great survivor – and it possibly owes its continued existence to its wonderfully long neck. When you realize how high the animals stretches in order to feed, you can imagine many an African folk-story being handed down through the generations to explain how it came to get that way.

Cuba’s Yank Tanks

In this exclusive photo gallery featured on diseno-art.com, we explore some of the vehicles from that most famous of Caribbean islands, Cuba. As everyone knows, Cuba is a curious country seemingly trapped in a 1960s time warp. In 1962, when America put the island under a strict embargo following the Cuban revolution, the population were prevented from buying any new cars, or parts, from their closest automobile-producing neighbor. This has resulted in the island becoming home to the most eclectic assortment of vehicles on the planet. It is a world where all-American 1950s Chevrolets are powered by Russian-made diesel engines, and where nearly-new Peugeot 206s sit side-by-side with tired looking Desotos.

Pentium-III CPU Autopsy

For teaching a course I needed to take a closer look at a CPU. I asked around and got my hands on an old P-III Coppermine that was about to get thrown out. I’ll start with a disclaimer: I know virtually nothing about CPUs, so if I claim something to be true, it probably isn’t. The first challenge is to get the actual silicon processor chip off of the plastic bonding board. In the picture below, the blue thing you see is the back side of the processor chip. When the processor is finished, it is turned upside down and bonded to the green circuit board. This allows the metal pads on the silicon chip and the pads on the circuit board to join, creating a connection (this is one of those claims...). I believe that the CPU at that stage is heated up in order to melt the joints and thereby solder them together.

Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept Makes the Porsche GT3 Look Like a Chick Car

Taking the idea of a track-focused street car to the next level, Lotus has unveiled the GTE Road Car Concept at Pebble Beach. Named after the GTE class cars that Lotus is currently racing in Europe, this concept is essentially a blend of that competition racer with a street-legal Evora. In many ways it’s not as far from reality as one might guess, with the race car based heavily on the Evora road car and even sharing the same aluminum tub. Thanks to a near excessive use of carbon fiber the concept weighs between 200 and 300 lbs less than the production Evora S, while the engine gets a healthy bump in power. With a modified version of the Evora S’s supercharged 3.5-liter V6, power is raised from 345-hp to 420-hp. No acceleration figures have been provided by Lotus, but with the stock car running 4.3 seconds to 60 mph and this concept also sporting a sequential transmission, a high 3.0 second time is certain.

The Inside Scoop on the Fake Barf Industry

Have you ever stopped to contemplate the existence of rubber barf? It opens up enough philosophical quandaries to make your head spin. Who would ever think of such a thing? Why would he feel the need to manufacture it? Fortunately, Stan and Mardi Timm, the foremost experts on famed novelty company H. Fishlove & Co., have the answers to these vexing questions. The couple even got a personal tour of the factory where “Whoops,” the original fake vomit, is still churned out. Chicago gag kingpin Irving Fishlove, son of the company’s founder, loved nothing more than a good prank—particularly when the prankster gets a laugh at the expense of his unwitting target. So when presented with the first prototype of latex puke in the late 1950s, he howled with laughter and declared that he loved it.

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