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ASD - Ad Surf Daily Cash Generator Business Frozen By U.S. Attorney General

Here is an announcement from the ASD web site: Friday, August 1st 2008 afternoon update: Upon direction from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia, ASD will not be able to move funds into company accounts, or out...

A1 sponsors Surfer of the Year award

I'm contacted by David Somerville, one of the key men in the annual Paddle Round the Pier festival, about A1Surf.com and Surfstock. The former is a surf forecasting website, while the latter is an event taking place in St Agnes...

You Surf Like a Girl

Random internet thing of the day: this script analyzes your browser history, then guesses your gender. The likelihood that I'm female is 57%. . . Posted by Karline

Microsoft?s Answer to PageRank: BrowseRank

Microsoft thinks PageRank is flawed, and researchers in their Asia facility believe they've found a better way to rank search results. It's called BrowseRank and rather than looking at link patterns, it watches for patterns in how people actually surf the web.

BoF Daily Digest | Som resigns, Bloomingdale's and Space NK, Wal-Mart pays, Surf brands

Som Resigns at Bill Blass (WWD) A year after Peter Som was appointed creative director at Bill Blass, he resigns from the label's top design post. A New Makeup: Bloomingdale's to Open Space NK Shops (WWD) Bloomingdale's has signed a...

Skewjack - the search continues

The sun is shining, the swell is (apparently) pumping, I've had enough of work and I'm going surfing. But who is this man? Meanwhile, while you're wondering, check out what's happening at the White Stuff Surf Relief Festival this coming...

My spring surf and fish trip to Panama.

Rooster Fish Just wanted to share a few shots from my spring surf and fish trip to Panama. We just rented a car and cruzed all over the place looking for good waves and fun places to fish. We found some fun waves, but there doesn't seem to be any real super perfect point breaks down there. Every wave has it's days though. Best surf we found was on the Pacific side. Checked all the usual spots and even found some secrets. Panama is super beautiful. Much of it is still frontier. It can be a bit s...

What is wrong with skateboarding?

Loyal readers may remember that a year or so ago my offspring and I had a spat with the man in charge of the flats next door. Our collective crime was to have skated on the car park behind the...

Oof! Pow! Splat! Reality TV revels in the Summer of Shove

The freak show called reality TV has always pushed its clowns to fall apart, whether they're would-be models pining for the affections of a washed-up rocker, hot-tempered roommates battling for the last dab of toothpaste or cold-hearted contestants willing to emotionally scar their loved ones for a shot at a bag of cash. Flaming Killer Surf, Tumble Tubes, Dodgeball Sweeper, Dreadmill Flipper Flop, Wall Swing and Barrel Run are among the over-the-top obstacles included in this week's episode of "...

Astro and Matel play at Camiondepompier

Last night was the Monsters and Letters vernissage at the very well known geek-boutique and fancy toys store Camiondepompier, which is a space as peculiar as the name would suggest. Works of Québec City artists Matel (real name Mat Laroche) and Astro (real name impossible to find on the Internets), former graffiti artists turned artists, period. Monsters and Letters featured pieces on a variety of media, ranging from skateboards and surf boards to the classic canvas stretched, or cubed. The wo...