Whitetail Resort To Help in Skinny Dip Record

At 3pm this coming Saturday, July 11th, Virginia's Whitetail Resort will help set the skinny dipping world record. The resort is participating in Guinness World Record's Largest Skinny-Dip Across North America.

The event has been organized by the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR). First of all, how awesome is it that we live in a country where such a group exists? Secondly, thank GOD they decided to choose swimming. Can you imagine the Largest Nude Flag Football Game Across America? How about Ultimate Frisbee?

We all owe a big "thank you" to the dedicated men and women who made sure thousands of American's will visit various resorts this weekend, strip naked and jump into water for basically no reason. Cheers.

If you're interested in showing your support, first-time nudists are encouraged to join in the event. Just bring a photo ID and show up early to get registered.

Dave Carroll's 'United Breaks Guitars' Music Video Is a Huge Hit

Normally, airlines can get away with treating customers like crap. Why? It's the 800-pound gorilla thing. Or the capitalistic thing. But every now and then, when someone like, hypothetically, United Airlines breaks, say, Dave Carroll's Taylor Guitar, the little man fights back. That's exactly what Dave Carroll did with his freaking awesome "United Breaks Guitars" song. And it's only Part 1 -- with over 120,000 views so far on YouTube, one would think United might be shopping for some six-stringers right now.

Disney World Monorail Crash Video

The following is an amateur video taken at Disney World following a recent Monorail crash. The person filming the crash is kicked out by park authorities because he/she is too close to the accident immediately after it occured. Please do not watch the video if the idea of seeing the accident is frightening to you at all and remember that we are only reporting the news and that our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those people on the train.

US Airways Flight Diverted After Passenger Strips Naked and Goes Crazy Mid Flight

US Airways Flight 705, en route from Charlotte to Los Angeles, was diverted to New Mexico earlier this afternoon when a passenger stripped naked mid-flight and became "unruly" according to KRQE-TV.

The male passenger apparently removed all his clothes and began to run around the cabin naked; other passengers aboard the plane "helped to restrain the man until the plane could land."

Now, call me crazy or stupid or homophobic even, but if a dude strips totally naked and starts running around a plane I'm on, there's no chance I'm playing the Steven Seagal role. Or even the Kurt Russell "I'm kind of tough enough to save a plane but no one really believes" it role.

No sir-e-bob: I'm playing the Oliver Platt role which generally entails running to the bathroom and locking the door. Because, honestly folks, if a guy is naked, he poses no real threat (he's not a terrorist, clearly, and you can actually see that he has no weapons on his person, right?) to my immediate safety other than permanently harming my retinas.

So my advice to you: don't play the hero when some dude decides to eat an ounce of mushrooms (what? you have a better explanation?) before he hops on a six hour plane ride and then wigs out with only about an hour left on the ride and decides that clothes just became optional.

And yes, I can make these jokes because everyone is safe, the streaker is in FBI custody and the plane kept on moving to Los Angeles.

What a Volcano Looks Like Exploding From Space

From the Discovery blog via Digg is one of the cooler, albeit nauseating, videos I've ever seen. And while I may have just lost my breakfast on my desk, at least I know what a volcano exploding from outer space looks like.

Date Set for Thieves Who Stole a Beach in Jamaica

Although it sounds like a case from Carmen Sandiego, thieves actually stole a beach in Jamaica.

In July of 2008, 500 truckloads of white sand were stolen from a resort development in Coral Spring, along Jamaica's northwest coast.

The crime initially puzzled police, but after a few months and a laboratory analysis of the sand at competing resorts, investigators charged the two principals of Bedrock Building and Aggregates, operator of a Kingston-based mining business. Three other men were charged as accomplices.

On August 18th, the men will stand trial at a Jamaican court in Falmouth.

In the meantime, Felicitas, the resort developer from whom the sand was stolen, has filed an 8.1 million dollar lawsuit against Bedrock Building and Aggregates. The suit also names the owners of several major resorts in Jamaica thought to be recipients of the stolen sand: Grand Palladium Hotel & Resorts in Lucea, Riu Tropical Bay in Montego Bay, and Palmyra Resort & Spa at Rose Hall in Montego Bay.

Although this case seems to be closed authorities can't rest for long, there's trouble brewing in Central America. It seems the terrible trio of Ruth Less, Joy Rider, and Rob M. Blind have struck again. They've stolen all the coffee from Costa Rica...

Air New Zealand's 'Bare Essentials' Campaign Is Just Awkward

Everyone wants to be viral these days. So you can imagine a bunch of Air New Zealand PR folks sitting around a conference room, tapping their pencils, pounding Bud Light Foster's and thinking, "How can we go viral?" Naturally, the answer is the "Bare Essentials" campaign, which involves the basic tenants of air safety ... only it's made HILARIOUS by the fact that these attendants have their uniforms painted on. One problem: this is only sexy when it happens in the SI Swimsuit issue. The idea of having my knee jacked by the drink cart, wincing and then looking as an attendant walks past me only this time there's NO uniform involved, well, color me shuddered.

Rapping Flight Attendant Opens Southwest LaGuardia Terminal

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. (Of course he is, right?) The "Rapping Flight Attendant," David Holmes, made famous by such national websites as CNN and PTG, was on hand to open up Southwest's new terminal in LaGuardia Sunday. Naturally, what ensued was good ole' fashioned hilarity and confused-looking, elderly CEO-types clapping to a beat they don't really understand. Good times! Seriously, shouldn't this guy have a record deal at this point? Or is Southwest just paying him so much money that he can't leave? I'm going with the latter.

Greasy Pole Competition in Gloucester Is This Weekend

Warm up those, um, greasy poles, folks, because it's that time of the year again. That's right -- GREASY POLE COMPETITION TIME. WOO. YEAH. Because nothing says "uber-excitement" and "super awesome" quite like "people trying to walk -- drunkenly -- across a greased 45-foot telephone pole." Actually, I kid sarcastically (of course). As the good folks at Oh Concierge pointed out, the greasy pole event is probably a ton of fun to compete in, and definitely way more fun to watch. If you're in the General Mass area this weekend, hit it up. Bonus: Video from 2007.

Kevin Coster's Doing Turkish Airlines Ads, Career Officially Over

I'm sure the folks at Turkish Airlines are fantastic people. And I loved Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. And Tin Cup. But let's just say that if Costner were to find himself doing an advertisement for said Turkish Airlines where someone keeps whispering "I feel like a sta-ah" in a gravely voice as Costner travels across the globe, well, both parties have hit a new low. Fortunately, that's exactly what happened! VROOM-VROOM, PARTY STATER!

Alternately, this could simply be Costner doing charity work to make up for producing Waterworld and The Postman, although surely donations to help the children of a third world country would be more productive.