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Sofia Vergara At The Emmys

The 63rd Annual Emmy Awards were a Modern Family party last night, so here's Sofia Vergara in this dress. As long as she doesn't speak or look like she might speak, she's probably the hottest woman on television right now.

Isola San Giulio – Italy’s Fairy Tale Island

Isola San Giulio is like something out of a fairy tale. The island situated on Lake Orta in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy is tiny – a mere 275 meters in length by 140 meters wide. A beautiful collection of lay and religious houses cram its tiny confines. It is so picturesque that it makes the jaw drop, almost in disbelief. It has an interesting story too. Legend has it that St Guilio (or Julius of Novara in English) founded his one hundredth church here in the fourth century AD. It is just west of the charming village of Orta San Giulio (also named after Julius of Novara). The island was the lair of a giant serpent, which used the island as a launch pad to attack local villages. Yet St Guilio arrived and with his ability to command the waves he journeyed over the water on his cloak and banished the creature from the island.

Elisabetta Canalis Is Absolutely Ripped

Obviously Elisabetta Canalis was already in pretty good shape before she started up with this whole Dancing With The Stars crap, she was on the Clooney payroll for a few years after all, but now that she’s doing the show she’s getting even tighter. Here she is showing off her amazing abs while taking a break from rehearsal. Impressive. You could break a broomstick across those things and she probably wouldn’t feel it.

Inside a Wave: Awesome Photography by Clark Little

“The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little” is nothing short of epic. Getting inside, over and under 30-40 foot waves is no small feat, especially with bulky camera equipment, and a goal of finding that perfect angle and lighting condition that makes a perfect shot. Clark Little is pretty well known today as the foremost shorebreak art photographer (his art has been seen on “Good Morning America”, and featured in a number of glossy magazines all over the world). But as much as we like the fantastic shots of various wave’ innards, we are even more impressed to see him pitched against dangerous, massive amounts of water – violent waves, where you only have a moment to make that shot and to get out of the harm’s way.

A Push-button Starter That Tells If You're Drunk?

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that two companies have joined forces to create a push-to-start button that can automatically sense the driver's blood-alcohol level. Takata, an Auburn Hills-based parts supplier and TruTouch, an Albuquerque-based firm, have received a $2.25 million grant from the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety to help make the creation commercially viable. Currently, the device is about the size of a bread box and uses an infrared sensor to determine the amount of alcohol in a person's system. In addition, the invention currently takes several seconds to function and only works accurately at room temperature.

Flesh-Eating Piranhas Bark When Angered

Hollywood has given the piranha a rough reputation as a vicious fish with a penchant for biting. But according to Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the University of Liège, Belgium, the piranha barks more than it bites. The team of biologists plunged a hydrophone (an underwater microphone) into a tank of captive red-bellied piranhas and listened in to the different sounds they make in different situations. So far, the team registered three distinct noises. When piranhas enter into a confrontation they’ll make a barking noise. When they’re fighting for food or circling an opponent, a piranha will make short percussive drum-like sounds. And when their jaws snap at each other, a softer croaking sound is produced.

Pimped Out Product Placement: The Most Ridiculous Donk Cars To Hit The Road

If you live in the Southeastern United States, there's a good chance that you're familiar with the term "Donk" and its relationship to automobiles. If you don't have the benefit of living in the Dirty Dirty, then I'll give you a little background. A donk car - or a Hi-Riser to the formal crowds - is typically a Chevy Impala or Caprice Classic (or any number of classic American muscle cars) that has been raised up on wheels as high as 30-inches. Basically, they're normal cars raised up on big-ass rims and they are painted in ridiculous fashions. They're a part of rap culture, they've spread thoughout the U.S. far and wide, and most of them are hilariously awesome.

Dentist Performs Root Canal on Tiger

An Anchorage endodontist performed a root canal on a big tooth in a very big patient — a full-grown Siberian tiger. Dr. Doug Luiten worked on 300-pound Kunali — measuring nearly 7 feet from backside to nose — Thursday at the Alaska Zoo. "It's the longest tooth I've ever worked on," Luiten said of more than three-inch (8 centimeter) canine. The zoo had to order some special instruments to accommodate the longer tooth, and even had to modify those during the root canal. Kunali was not restrained, and didn't wake up during the hour-long procedure thanks to anesthesia administered by Dr. David Brunson, a visiting veterinarian from Madison, Wis. "He was a good boy, he handled things well," Brunson said.

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