ake a junky surfboard that's been sitting in the back yard all winter. Grind it up. What can you do with it? Turn it into street pavement? You can. You even can turn it into a new surfboard.

Legendary skateboarder Bob Biniak, one of the original Dogtown Z-Boys, has died at age 51, reports Times staff writer Valerie J. Nelson.

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Saturday's tsunami traveled 6,000 miles and hit California's beaches right on schedule — but waves were rarely as large as predicted, landing with a whimper rather than a wallop. In the first big test of a new Pacific Ocean tsunami system, the magnitude-8.8 Chilean earthquake showed that while scientists can anticipate the arrival time of waves, they struggle to forecast the precise size.

Great wave pictures by Rob Gilley

The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is scheduled to get underway at Snapper Rocks in Australia this weekend, marking the beginning of the 2010 ASP World Tour season.

These huge breakers would put the fear of God into most surfers. But when you're a dolphin, they can only mean one thing: Playtime. Gliding effortlessly through the ocean these masters of the ocean made light work of waves up to 25 feet high. In pods of up to 400, the creatures crowded into the swell of the water as it broke.