Thirteen-year-old Olive Bowers loves everything about surfing—except the totally crappy way women are portrayed in the pages of a popular magazine.

It’s probably safe to assume that these dogs are stoned, not because surfers of all breeds adhere to the stoner beach bum stereotype, but because they seem really calm. What gives? Aren’t they afraid that all this erratic doggy paddling and splashing will draw the attention of great white sharks? That happens, you…

Selling bikinis is by nature a provocative industry. They're selling underwear that you can get wet, for god's sake, so the chances of seeing some cleavage are higher than if you were selling, say, nautical sweaters. But where can advertisers draw the line between "this swimsuit will make you look hot" and "look at…

This is Zorro. He's a two month old pig who loves to surf. And we love to watch him surf, because finally something is alright in the world. Also, perhaps it's because I'm a Bleedy Female, but I'm crying. Is this weird? Should I be treated for hysteria? Help?

Lady surfers are coming up. They're fast, strong, creative, and "challenging the notion that big-wave riding is the exclusive domain of danger-craving men." Cool.

This dolphin video (yay for dolphins!) comes courtesy a friend of a friend, so everybody be nice and say how much you enjoy the soothing ocean vistas. The paddleboarder's name is Nik and the reason all the dolphins swarm around him and not the rest of us is because he stuffs his boardshorts with dolphin treats. J/k…

Australia's Sally Fitzgibbons celebrates after wining the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Billabong Rio Pro women's surfing competition at Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

MANLY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 19: Matt Banting of Australia competes in the Men's Semi-final of the 2012 Australian Surfing Open on February 19, 2012 in Manly, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Rio de Janiero, May 15: U.S. surfer Carissa Moore competes in the quarterfinal round of the Billabong Rio Pro Women's surfing competition. Moore, who is ranked first in the ASP Women's World Title, advanced to the semifinal round after defeating Courtney Conlogue of the U.S. And there you sit, on your computer, having…

Yesterday marked the first time — ever — that the Triple Crown surfing championship staged a women's event at the famous Pipeline, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

[Huntington Beach, August 2. Felicity Palmateer of Australia carves into a wave during the women's heats at the U.S. Open of Surfing. Image via AP]

Click to watch video of the "Radical Rodents," a team of surfing mice. Says "Rodents Coach & Master" Shane Willmott, "I wish I was two inches tall. No one can ride these except for the mice, and that's a damn shame." [Sun]

• An 81-year-old grandfather from Switzerland has been put under house arrest by his family after a fall from a plum tree allegedly turned him into a sex addict. But maybe his family is just mad about something else.

Another year, another Blake Lively Vogue cover. Anna Wintour loves this long-legged Gossip GIrl, even if the newsstand buyers don't tend to agree.

[New Plymouth, New Zealand; April 15. Image via Getty]

[Huntington Beach, July 19. Image via Getty]