Last time out we took a look at what the Urban Dictionary could teach us about snowboarding. One the the main things we learned is that we should hate all skiers. This week we do our research into these nasty little skier fellas and see what they are all about...

What would happen if you used the Urban Dictionary as a reference to learn the language of snowboarding? ...

Traditionally we consider choice to be a good thing, but is it really?

Photo by kind permission of Nathan Gallagher, who is not at fault for, and bears no responsibility for, the subsequent hacking up, crude Photoshoppery and desecration by larey scribbling, of the original artwork

I was reading this interesting article in Huck Magazine by Cori Schumacher about the recent trend of hypersexualising female surfers and the problems it causes. It’s an interesting and thought provoking read. Anyway here are the professional snowboarders who have decided to get in on that trend by posing for glamour shots in mainstream magazines…

A couple of years back we took a look at all the big faceless corporations that exist behind the familiar brands of snowboarding (and skiing, and skateboarding, and surfing, and now rollerblading) and it was surprising to see just how big and seemingly unrelated to the sport they were. It's time to take another look and see what's changed over the last two and a half years...

We're back after a temporary travelling-in-the-middle-of-nowhere caused hiatus. This week we look at a site you're all familiar with called Fine Art America. No? You must have heard of them. Its the only place to be for all things art according to their home page: 

Fine Art America is home to 113,275 of the world's greatest living artists and photographers. Browse through our collection of 2,918,037 images - all of which can be purchased as framed prints, canvas prints, greetings cards, and more. When you're ready, we'll deliver a museum-quality masterpiece right to your doorstep.

It must be good, that's 7.5 times more museum-quality masterpieces than the Louvre...

A week ago I’d just started to research another in our entirely vapid series of celebrity snowboarder spotting articles and I was checking an old article we’d done on Adam Yauch when, bang, my TV decided to hit me with the news that he had just died. Shitty news. Freaky timing.

For what it’s worth here’s a list of famous rappers that snowboard…

When you have a question to ask that's so stupid you can't ask anyone you know then why not post it on Yahoo Anwsers, the internet's repository for defeat. Today we try to help these people by answering some of their snowboarding-related conundrums...

Following the success of David Benedek’s book Current State: Snowboarding and now that it’s the end of the season we thought we’d dissect snowboarding’s summer cousin, sandboarding…