So you're a budding grime  artist. You know, that uniquely British conflation of garage and rap shouted out by the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Kano, Lady Sovereign and Wiley and the Roll Deep Crew. But where are you going to practice? Studios are much too confining and the neighbors don't exactly like it when you crank up your stereo to rap along.

Why not just practice outside? No problem according to a new article  in Wired. All you have to do is download a few background tracks  from the Web, load them onto your cell phone and suddenly, you're a mobile grime studio. Apparently, rapping -- or "spitting" as the genre would have it -- to music pumped out by cell phones is becoming the hot pastime on the island. Not only that, thanks to MP3 players and enhanced speakers built into mobile phones impromptu rap sessions are breaking out on London streets. And the problem of what to do when the inspiration for that next great lyric strikes is solved: Just type it into you phone, crank up the music and test it out.

Poking Fun at the Terrorists

The Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were decried as the death of political satire. But the lull in humor based on the news didn't last long.  Indeed, just two weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, the satirical online paper The Onion ran an issue entirely devoted to the attacks and included an interview with a surprised Mohammed Atta  who found himself unexpectedly in hell.

Humor has once again been in short supply following the series of violent terror attacks in London and the Middle East this month. But a new Web site bravely tries to get us to laugh about it. The site, called youblewmeupyoubastard.com , urges readers to send in pictures of themselves which could be then sent to the media in case they are ever killed in a terror attack. Yet what may at first sound macabre, has turned into a hilarious gallery full of people showing terrorists exactly what they think of them. They're certainly far better than the yearbook pictures the media usually get their hands on.

What Do You Know about Europe?

When George W. Bush led the United States and the "coalition of the willing" into war in Iraq, a survey  conducted in 2002 on behalf of National Geographic magazine revealed that only 17 percent of young Americans could find the country they were about to invade on a map. The same survey found that 49 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find New York either. And Europeans didn't do much better. Arch-polemicist, Michael Moore made much of the results: "Shouldn't it be Rule No. 1 that if you're going to invade a country you should at least know where the country is?" he asked while touring to promote his new book.