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Surf Nazis Ride Again(Comments Off)
Last week’s New Yorker had an excellent article by George Packer about Dresden and how history is revised. For those of you who haven’t read Slaughterhouse-Five, Dresden is a Medieval city in eastern Germany’s Elbe River valley, that was burned to the ground on the night of February 13, 1945 by 2600 tons of high [...]
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There Is No Planet B
As developing nations threaten to walk out of the climate talks in Copenhagen, street protesters seemed to be the only ones with a sense of urgency about the warming planet. An estimated 40,000 protesters took to the streets in Copenhagen, carrying signs that read “Bla Bla Bla. Act Now!” and “There Is No Planet B”. [...]
Artificial Reef Breeds Localism
After a decade of planning and 14 months of construction, Boscombe Reef near Bournemouth on England’s south coast, opened for business last week. It is one of only a handful of reefs in the world that were intentionally created for surfing. In the few days since its official opening, the Boscombe Surf Reef has shown [...]
Supertubes Switches on for ASP
After a rocky start, Day 9 of the RipCurl contest at Peniche, Portugal, turned up with the goods. The world’s top 44 surfers competed in barreling 3-meter waves at Supertubos today. Australians Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson are numbers one and two in the ASP rankings now. Tomorrow should decide the contest for the men. [...]