A video that every grom should watch.

ESPN HD and ABC HD will continue to expand their programming line-ups by offering all 15 hours of Winter X Games 12 in high-definition, January 24 through January 27, 2008 live from Aspen, Colorado. X Games 14 will also be presented entirely in HD and will air in early August, 2008. XCENTER, the daily highlight show for both the X Games and Winter X Games, will also be shown in HD on ESPN2 HD.

The annual Winter X Games is the premier winter action sports event featuring more than 250 of the world’s best athletes competing for medals and prize money in Skiing, Snowboard and Snowmobile competitions.

Calling out user a2zBoardShop because private messages aren't getting through to him.

Guerilla marketing is so hot right now, but why not support the snowboard scene and online community by buying a banner ad instead of posting your hot deals in everyone's conversations? The admins work hard keeping this site fresh and they don't deserve someone freeloading on their bandwidth. This community is sophisticated enough to realize that your posts are no different from the credit report/preapproved mortgage/penis enhancement emails that keep hitting our inboxes.

Looks like we'll be seeing more Canucks stateside this winter as the weakness of the American Dollar is finally overtaken by the Canadian currency standard. My upcoming trip to BC is looking more expensive with each passing day.

Exchange rate calculator.

To my American brethren, it may be time to stop throwing away your Canadian loose change.

Humor at the lowest common denominator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4kbfqS5B8

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China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather.

Officials in the meteorological bureau in Tibet said they had used "rain-seeding" techniques to trigger a snowfall over the city of Nagqu last week.

"This proves it's possible for humans to change the weather on the world's highest plateau," said Yu Zhongshui. The bureau said it had produced just under half an inch of snow at a height of 15,000ft.

Mr Yu said the experiment was conducted in the hope it would lead to alleviating drought on the northern Tibetan plateau, whose grasslands are turning brown as global warming melts and drains its permafrost.

The government also hopes that the project will benefit the great river systems of China. The Yellow, Yangtse, Salween, Mekong and Brahmaputra rivers all rise in Tibet, and the effects of damming and over-extraction for agriculture are beginning to threaten water supplies to major cities.

China is the world's largest practitioner of rain-seeding, a controversial procedure that involves releasing silver iodide as a catalyst into clouds either by aircraft or by firing cannon shells into them. It employs 37,000 people on the programme, which it uses to trigger rainfall principally to maximise water supply in the drought-prone north of the country, although in Beijing it is often said to be part of attempts to ensure a blue sky for major events.

Authorities have already promised to use rain-seeding before the Olympics to clear the often gloomy August skies for the opening ceremony.

SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Bob Burnquist builds the largest skateboard ramp in the world on a 12-acre farm north
of San Diego among the green foothills of the San Marcos Mountains.
The ramp features a 70 foot gap and a quarterpipe that rivals the Arctic Challenge.
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First off, I have to say thanks to Nik J. for the hook-up. He's the Midwest Signal Snowboards rep and he drove 80+ miles to personally deliver it to my door. Nice service Nik!

Okay, as long as we're in the off season I should be practicing the art of the bean. My goal is to create a frothy mocha in under 3 minutes by November. The advantages of creating your own coffee beverages are two fold. One, you'll save shit-tons of money making it yourself instead of getting robbed at Starbucks. And two, if you perfect your timing, you should never miss a first chair on a powder day.