Making Waves Makes Dream Come True
Bobby DuCharme was a talented surfer, until a terrible accident 11 years ago. Social Sciences - Psychology - Surfing - Technology - Red flag

How put.io could give Hollywood a serious kicking
Could put.io, a new cloud storage system, spark off a showdown between Hollywood and online pirates?

'Highwater': Surfing documentary skims surface
Highwater RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Documentary. Starring Kelly Slater, David Sanderson and Monique Marrier. Directed by Dana Brown. (Not rated. 90 minutes. At the Metreon in San Francisco.) Some of the surfers in "Highwater" openly root for devastating... Dana Brown - Surfing - Kelly Slater - Highwater - Documentary film

A Nagoya primer: with references to Star Wars, Kevin Bacon, LOL Cats, and Twitter [The World's Fair]
Image: Nagoya Congress Center plus Millenium Falcon reworked from original photo by Paula Pedrosa. link . Originally made for a series of Nagoya COP10 primers at Boing Boing ( 1 | 2 | SB | 3 | 4 ) I: SORTING OUT THE VERNACULAR So what is up with this Nagoya thing? Well, it's a big international meeting that is happening in Nagoya's Congress Centre (see the picture above), starting on October ...

Serial entrepreneur Johnny de la Valdene bubbles over with ideas wild and wacky enough to work
G.J. McCARTHY/DMN Johnny de la Valdene, a Dallas-based entrepreneur, has founded Vacation in a Bottle, Marshmallow Fun Co. and Big Heads Entertainment.Johnny de la Valdene is best known for the Marshmallow Shooter, an invention that has been one of the hottest Christmas toys for the last couple of years. De la Valdene expects revenue for Marshmallow Fun Co. to reach about $9 million this year ...

Retailers pushing 3-D's wow factor to overcome buyers' hesitation
Demand for 3D TV is rising, but retailers say they need to be creative to sell the sets, with displays and events that encourage shoppers to to see the world through three-dimensional glasses.

Movies opening this week
"Dogtooth" (NR): For those in the mood for something different, there's this darkly comic tale of three college-age siblings stuck in their bizarre parents' high-walled house and taught an alternate language to help protect them from an outside world dubbed unsafe for them to enter until one of

Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab
Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer running Android 2.2 that will begin shipping in October in Europe.

Labor Day weekend TV: 'Bones,' 'Jersey Shore,' 'Rubicon' and more marathons
This year's Labor Day weekend TV marathons offer a smorgasbord of culture. There are current scripted dramas, lifestyles shows, reality docs, vintage sitcoms and more New Jersey-related programming you could ask for -- all in gluttonous, day-long blocks.What are your best bets for couch potato-ing over the next few days? Here are a few suggestions: Sunday-18 hours is no easy commitment, but that ...

Women’s world: Obsessed with a boy band
Dr. Dana Ruiz-Sesante Cindy Ruiz Garaña, R.N. Dear Cindy, read more