• What’s with the hand gestures lads?
  Cowen:
  
  Sarkozy:
  
  Creative Ireland on Cowen.
  Twenty Major on Sarkozy.

• www.rosannadavison.co.uk; the official site of yes-you-would lovely girl Rosanna Davison.
• Nice Temple Bar menu shenanigans.
• Are VisitBritain.com robbing Irish Tourists?
• www.irishhandstamps.com - advertise on peoples hands. PR whiz Piaras Kelly talks about it here. With thanks to Le Craic.
• Europe to crack down on phone services, like subscription services, ring tone providers, and other businesses who if I ever meet the owners of, I would like to punch them in the face.
• An Irish startup are behind Muzo TV:This is an ad-supported streaming music video site which enables artists, labels, festivals, venues, fans and any other music content owner to broadcast their music TV on the web, “legally” and at no cost. Pointless youtube clone or much more? Techcrunch UK article. www.muzu.tv.
• If Jesus took photos, they wouldn’t be as good as Red Mum’s: St. Michaels Estate.
• Boards.ie on the survey that says Ireland has the lowest quality of life in the EU.
• More Oxegen fun: Crazy ass bitch climbing a support tower of the Pet Sounds Tent during MGMT’s performance which meant it was stopped temporarily:
  
  (vid via My Little Piebald, subscribe: mylittlepiebald@gmail.com ).

With apologies to all those who are sick to death of the oxegen coverage, but just check out these stats.

Most watched on youtube for oxegen today:

Ah Girls Crack, 1,606 youtubers can’t be wrong. Or else it’s very wrong. You decide.

Did you like Oxegen?

• 2FM have a fair bit of video coverage: mainly interviews up on Youtube.
• State.ie has a gazillion articles + photos.
• You can listen to a few acts on the RTE web site.
• A woman proposed to her man on the main stage.
• Heineken Greenspace TV have a few more interviews on youtube.
• Una rocks has her thoughts up. Her piece from the Tribune on Sunday is here.
• Positive Boredom puked. Last year.
• The entertainmentie user on flickr has a shit load of photos up.
• More flickr photos, from oxegen2008photos.
• Rick O’Shea has loads of posts and pics.
• Wow Indo, their amazing gallery with nine (as of right now anyway) photos is the number 1 article at the moment. Their review article is more worthwhile.
• The Irish Times had a fold out The Ticket special today, and all the stuff from it is online in the Irish Times features section.
• The most watched fan video I found on youtube as of right now is this Kings of Leon vid with 2,000 views:
  

  Youtube is of course, full of blurred shaky cam footage of various jazz.

Photo owned by Alexanderpf (cc)

• The Indo have a nice little oxegen planner, where you pick all the acts you want to see and it draws up your own little timetable for the possibly all three at once mud/underage shenanigans/tent burning extravagansa.
• Head Rambles goes after global warming, armed with what seems like only a fist full of retardedness. Maybe it’s all just hilarity, who knows, it’s lost on me. If he actually believes any of what he wrote, then I suggest How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic.
• If the boards admins got a penny for every thread with “I’m not a racist but…” they might be very rich indeed.
• Kevin Myers, ever the shock-jock: Africa is giving nothing to anyone — apart from AIDS.
• Dublin and Cork will be ok, everyone else fucked by recession?
• This guy should write a book, or twenty six of them. He’s that good.
• Sellafield decommissioning to take over 100 years. Nice.