Granny Catches Bigger Bass Than You Ever Will

That’s right, you just got out fished by someones grandmother.

via YouTube.

Another oil rig explodes in Gulf, rescues under way

Straight from the “add insult to injury” department, yet another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. No word yet on if there has also been another spill, but they’re saying the rig was not active so hopefully that won’t be the case.

“We don’t know what caused the rig to catch on fire,” he told CNN, noting the incident is under investigation.

Asked about concerns regarding oil leaks or pollution, Colclough said “there are reports the rig was not actively producing any product, so we don’t know if there’s any risk of pollution.”

Mariner Energy is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company in the Gulf of Mexico. About 85 percent of the company’s production comes from offshore assets, with a growing share of that coming from deepwater developments.

The explosion comes nearly five months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 people and causing oil to gush into
the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

via CNN.com Blogs.

Update

The first photo of the actual rig has shown up online.

via Culture Map

This Is Fly Volume 2 Issue 3

Another awesome issue of This is Fly for your viewing pleasure!

Click the image to view the latest issue!

BREAKING! Hostages taken at U.S. Discovery Channel HQ

I just got a text from a friend alerting me to this breaking news. Apparently a man has stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters with a gun and taken at least one man hostage!

Earlier, Police Corporal Dan Friz said he could not confirm gunshots were fired in the building in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a Discovery employee had told the local ABC television affiliate.

Employees told local television that the building had been evacuated after a lockdown and children were taken out of the daycare center.

Police were watching the suspect on the building’s closed-circuit security system and Discovery employees posted updates on the situation on Twitter.

Roads in the normally busy urban center at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue on the edge of Washington were closed and police cars and emergency vehicles blocked access. Witnesses said SWAT teams and law enforcement from several areas were at the scene.

via Montreal Gazette.

Updated with video!

Updated again!

The hostage taker is believe to be James Jay Lee, and his alleged website Savetheplanetprotest.com lists 11 demands discover must adhere to. * Site appears to be down now, but the first three demands are listed below..

1. “The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!”

2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.

3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!”

UPDATE!

Gunman James Lee, was shot dead by law enforcement after the four hour standoff. All three hostages were freed and it sounds like nobody else was hurt. The mysterious canisters James carried were apparently confirmed as explosives when one of the devices exploded after he was shot by police.

An explosive device on his body detonated when police shot him, Mr Manger said. Police were trying to determine whether two boxes and two backpacks also contained explosives and authorities sent in a robot to disarm a device on the gunman’s body.

via Google UK Press

The Ironman Of Tuna fishing

Tuna fishing just doesn’t get any more epic then this!

Thanks Yuri!

Egg Timer Time Lapse Video

Every now and then I stumble upon and idea that is so simple and so awesome I can’t believe I didn’t come up with it myself. When this type of situation arises, I find the best thing to do is steal the idea, make it your own, and show off to all of your friends and family. This little camera trick is remarkably easy to achieve. Check it out!

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