What have we got? What have we got?

Well, let's start with Mr Bell who is pleased by Pandora, which is designed to create musical “conversations”. If that sounds a bit pretentious, Chris says, check it out anyway. Choose your artist and see what Pandora lets out of the box. Israeli Miklos Olesh reckons “it's the best thing that's happened to the internet”.

The New Republic's art critic Jed Perl defends Dada, the subject of a exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington (registration required). The image of Sylvia Plath and Kurt Cobain "prowling around together" is one Chris likes for rather obvious reasons. This article, however, explores the possibility that Cobain died because he misread a poem by 1920s poet Elinor Wylie.

Mark contributes this, from The Observer, on John Howard's appearance before an enquiry into bribes paid to Saddam, and this on, err, anal sex:

Nor wonder how I lost my wits;
Oh! Caelia, Caelia, Caelia shits!

Beautiful! You've gotta love those eighteenth century guys!

From me? Well, Slate does it every time. Here we have Hitchens on Joe Wilson and the Niger yellowcake, John Dickerson looks forward to the Libby trial, and Slate's Explainer talks about generals.

Ciao.