"After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith."  Read entire review [...]

Everyone’s fantasy is to somehow get paid to surf. Well, how cool would it be to be able to go to college and study surfing? Students at UCSB can take Prof. Stuart Sweeney’s Geography of Surfing course, which looks pretty sweet. It’s like Broceanography 101. And if that’s not cool enough, then how’s about an [...]

Here’s a cool site that tracks ocean-going vessels.  Take a look at the map and see just how many ships are out there at once.  And it doesn’t even track all vessels, rather just the ones that are part of the World Meteorological Organization’s Voluntary Observing Ship program as well as yachts that report their [...]

Sony Animation has a film about surfing – penguin surfing, that is. I think it’s due for a Summer ’07 release. No doubt when the film is released next summer, it’ll inspire lots of little kids to take to the water. Check out how sweet the waves look in the trailer. Sony’s got the technology [...]