Burro's awesome new pic got me thinking of the abandoned ginger sea lion. So I used the google and discovered that he's happy & doing great.

Oh, and here's a link to watch him live: http://www.nafanya-sochi.ru/index.php?lang=en

A GRINDING sound, somewhere between a rattle and a rumble, erupted over the suburban New Jersey hill. The figures, clad in motorcycle leathers and helmets, started to appear, one, two, three, until there were almost 20, crouched on skateboards, like a squadron of roller-villains...

So, it turns out "Austin Powers" contained an accurate prediction of what the not-too-distant future would hold. That future is now, and Dr. Evil's plan to have "sharks with laser beams attached to their heads" is almost a reality.

By Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, in Tokyo

A Japanese teenager has identified himself as the owner of a soccer ball that washed up on an Alaska beach last week – the first traceable debris to arrive in the United States from last year's tsunami.

(04-14) 19:55 PDT FARALLON ISLANDS -- One sailor is dead and three were missing Saturday evening after a racing yacht ran aground near the Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside the Golden Gate, authorities said.

":( Not the place to be shipwrecked. "

"I was out there this morning on a tour boat. The boat's battered and washed up on the rock ..."

Right now there are some decent waves down South by the Pier.

Private donors, foundations and other entities have come forward to help keep 11 of 70 parks threatened with closure open for one to three years, McGrath State Beach among them.

So there was some pretty sweet skate deck art in this video (thanks to MN for introducing me to Hamish). Looked up David Grizzle's blog and He's got some awesome stuff on there.