• The Washington Post does a short piece on Garfield minus Garfield, which was created by Dublin man Dan Walsh. (We reported on it recently.)
• What does a van that’s hit a lorry at 100kmh look like? Skip to the end for the wit.
• www.hiphop.ie: Tagline: Ireland’s hiphop community.
• Lost is back tonight in the States and on Monday on RTE. Big fat deal, when we’ve got Lost in Northern Ireland:
  
• 50 years since the first transatlantic Aer Lingus flight.
• Beating RSI: Practical tips for beating Repetitive Strain Injury Created by John Braine.
• They named the new Dublin zoo elephant Budi.

8 Mile was on TV last night. I didn’t watch it. But I did start to think about Irish Hip Hop. Which is very much alive.

8 mile let us all in on battling, in which rappers try to out slag each other to a beat. For the uninitiated, this is a style of freestyle rap. Here’s some recorded battling sessions from Irishhiphopdotcom: (Which contains, surprisingly, bad language)

Poke a little bit around irishhiphop.com, and you come up against this video, in which emcee Kounter Kulture talks all about culture, subculture and counterculture, eventually tying it in with the future of Irish hiphop. I had no idea there was so much to it. (It’s 24 minutes long.)

There’s certainly a lot of them: Irish Hip Hop on myspace. Irish Hip Hop on bebo.

Wanna a quick crash course? Try this playlist, created last year by an IrishHipHop.com poster:

More: www.irishhiphop.com.