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Karina Smirnoff is Cautious

Fame Images says that reigning ‘Dancing With The Stars’ champion (and former Playboy model) Karina Smirnoff took a break from her DanceFIT-KS Hawaiian tour, though I have no idea what the hell that means. Point being, she went paddle boarding. But only after taking lessons. And good for her. Those paddle boards are like a loaded gun. I thought I could do it without lessons and was only out there for a few minutes before starting a huge fire. It was a classic lesson in hubris.

Colombia’s Stunning River Of Five Colors

Known by many as “the river that ran away from paradise” and the most beautiful river in the world, Colombia’s Caño Cristales or The River of Five Colors is a veritable biological wonder. For most of the year, the river remains nondescript: clear currents, greyish rocks, cool waters. However for a brief period of time the Macarenia clavigera, a plant that lines the river floor, turns a brilliant shade of red that is only complemented by radiant shades of yellow and green sand, blue water, and many other hues in the color spectrum.

Leilani Dowding Bikini Pictures

I think I speak for all of us when I say that some women just seem to belong in bikinis, Leilani Dowding is one of those women. Here she walking along the beach all by herself in her sexy little bikini. Poor thing, all alone like that, she needs a sickly pale blogger walking by her side. Obviously I’d wear a long sleeve shirt, my skin hasn’t seen the sun in quite some time, but it will still be fun. Call me.

The Forgotten Trams of Sydney, Australia

Tucked away on a patch of wasteland in Glebe, New South Wales, the remains of six historic Sydney trams sit side by side in the abandoned Rozelle Tram Depot. Scrawled with graffiti and gutted from the inside, the trams date back to the 1930s when they were part of a network of streetcars operating across Sydney. Former plans had hoped to see them restored to their original glory and used as part of a heritage tramway which would run through The Rocks. However, the scheme was scrapped and new owners, Mirvac, plan to use the site for medium density housin

Toyota’s Headed to Le Mans — With Hybrids

Toyota is returning to Le Mans with a pair of slick hybrids that update the iconic endurance racers it campaigned in the 1990s and prove, once again, that hybrids aren’t always boring. The Japanese automaker plans to enter two TS030 Hybrid racers in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, making it the first manufacturer to enter a hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Though the team makes its race debut at the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on May 5, Toyota clearly wants a strong showing at Le Mans. "Of course we would love to win Le Mans; that is the dream for all competitors in this race," team president Yoshiaki Kinoshita said in a statement. "But we are realistic and we know we need to develop and to learn in order to compete with some very strong competition. Our target this year is to show the performance level of our car and particularly the THS-R powertrain."

IBM Shrinks Computer Memory Into Only Twelve Atoms

IBM announced last week that it had successfully created the smallest magnetic memory storage yet – they were able to record a bit into just 12 iron atoms. The results of this research can be found in the current issue of Science. “It begins with a simple question,” IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich told me. “How small can you make a magnetic structure, and still act as a classic magnet for data storage?” The traditional way to approach this is the simple Moore’s Law approach – starting from the top down, keep shrinking storage. The other approach, which is what Heinrich’s team is working on, is to actually build the magnet up, atom by atom. They did this by using a scanning, tunneling electron microscope, placing iron atoms one at a time on a copper-nitrogen surface. By placing the atoms one at a time, the researchers could start to understand how small it was possible to make the storage of one bit.

VIN 001 Falcon F7 Shows Up on eBay

That was fast! It was just at the Detroit Auto Show that Falcon Motor Sports was announcing final production details on the new F7, and now they're selling the first one produced on eBay for close to 1M bucks. Yeow! Fortunately, cars 2 through 10 (that's all they'll make for 2012) will be "starting at" only $225,000. Whew, that's reassuring: for a second there I was thinking I wouldn't be able to afford one.

Pizza in a Jar

First, there was a resurgence of using jars for what they were meant to be used for--pickling, preserving, and the like. Then, a certain, "hip," subset of Americans began using them as coffee mugs, even designing a special lid to make jars into travel mugs. And now, we've come to this. Pizza in a jar. No, it's not a piece of pizza shoved in a jar (though that would probably end up tasting just fine). Jasmin at 1 Fine Cookie layers raw pizza ingredients in jars as if they were parfaits--pizzamisu, if you will--and then bakes them off. Point is: You can make a whole case of pizzas in jars in advance, carry them with you wherever you go, and bake them in any oven, at any time.

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