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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...

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...

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 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[...]

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...

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...

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[...]

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...

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[...]

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[...]