Back in 2008, the New York Fire Department canceled its annual beefcake photo calendar because one of the men pictured had some blue movies out there. Cut to 2011 when the FDNA is so strapped for cash that the department has resurrected the guilty pleasure.

Starting in 2012 the FDNY will officially reinstate its shirtless beefcake calendar, but the money it raises won't go to charity as it did before. No, now proceeds will go to the cash-strapped fire department itself.

In the interest of being your complete source of Benjamin Maisani photos on the internet, we've updated our original gallery with some new shots from gay website Homo-Neurotic. And, no, there isn't a shirt in any of them.

That's Mr. Romance 2009 doing the cover-shoot for romance novel The Lord of Devil Isle (which will eventually probably look something like this). Don't ask how we found this. But there's a whole slideshow and it's disturbing, but fascinating.

Having just gotten over the grieving process of parting with Robert Downey Jr.'s world class facial hair and thinking we were ready to start seeing other celebrity moustaches, who should dribble along but George Clooney, rocking the dopest saltn'pepperpiller we've ever seen. Throw in some visible abage going down beneath his sweat-soaked T-shirt, and the Clooney Smile™, and we forgot Downey and the Bandit ever even existed. After the jump: Clooney gets air!

Dirty Jobs host, Deadliest Catch narrator, and former opera singer Mike Rowe has yet another accomplishment to add to his already impressive resume. Readers at Gay.com have voted him the number one dude they'd like to cheat on their boyfriends and husbands with. Poor old silver fox Anderson Cooper's stock is on the decline, as he came in third place out of 25 nominees behind Fast and Furious robot Paul Walker. And in a heartening sign that he's only popular during the Olympics, manfish Michael Phelps carried a mere two percent of the vote. As for Rowe, he sent this humble acceptance message: "What can I say? I'm honored. I would, however, like to take a moment to clear something up. Even though I got my start in theater, sang for years in The Baltimore Opera, moved to San Francisco and never married, I must tell you all again, for the hundredth time ... "I am NOT a celebrity. "Not that there's anything wrong with that... " See the rest of the results here.

In this undated photo, uploaded to a Russian pic-sharing site back in December, Linux creator Linus Torvalds shows off his pecs in a Speedo. We're betting it's at least a couple years old, though. Lately, Torvalds has been bearing an increasing resemblance to the Linux icon, Tux the Penguin. Add this to our collection of embarrassing geek photos. (Photo from m0sia.ru)

Top Chef season 2 contestant Sam Talbot, the Jonathan Rhys Meyers of culinary reality TV, is coming to the Lower East Side. The gentle giant is slated to open a beer 'n' burger place at 101 Rivington called Spitzer's Corner. Ostensibly an homage to the very same immigrant-run garment store it's replacing (Spitzer's Dress Shop), we have it on good word (that word being our gut) that Talbot is sucking up to new Governor (and by extension State Liquor Authority guru) Eliot Spitzer. I wouldn't put it past him. That man is a charmer. Remember when he banged Padma Lakshmi on the Kenmore Kitchen Pro? Wait, that didn't happen. Happily, Talbot, who is teaming up with the Fat Baby guys, won't need an expensive dishwasher. His abs will do just fine.