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Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major has been named Britain's most popular classical work in a Classic FM poll.

Mozart UK's favorite composer, and a related Classical Music Quiz

Sometimes you just have to link. Take part II of Abbas' Monday musing of How Brains Might Work, interesting in its own right, but it was this paragraph that jumped out at the chessplayer in me and has had me laughing all day. An amusing, where are they now segment, tucked in the middle of a serious work. Talk about a step down in the world for Deep Blue. One day you're on the world's stage, playing chess against the world champion and beating him, and the next day, a reservation clerk.

I also tried to explain what gives computers their programmable flexibility. (Did you know, for example, that Deep Blue, the computer which drove Kasparov to hair-pulling frustration and humiliation in chess, now takes reservations for United Airlines?)

Baghdad Street Battle Smacks of Open Civil War Now you might consider this bad news, but given the White House will spin this as a positive sign Iraqis expressing their opinions openly. A real improvement over the days when this sort of free speech was only heard in secret.

Snipers held rooftop positions as masked Sunni Arab insurgents said they were gearing up for another open street battle with pro-government Shiite militiamen in Baghdad's Adhamiya district on Tuesday.

The Arab Sunni stronghold is still feeling ripples from overnight clashes on Monday that appeared to be the closest yet to all-out sectarian fighting.

Reach Out And Bust Someone Satire by Don Davis