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== Better Than News == | |||
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== Beyond Plausible == | |||
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== In Other Words == | |||
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== Are You Sure == | |||
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== Topic of the Day == | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:49, 19 February 2023
Better Than News
The Five Stages of Grift is a reality television news program sponsored by Extract of Radium.
Beyond Plausible
Watership Down Troopers is a science fiction adventure novel about a small group of rabbits who must learn to fight back after their meadow is occupied by two-legged monsters.
In Other Words
"You Don't Bring Me Big Bangs" is a song by cosmologists Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond.
Are You Sure
• ... that American inventor Herman Hollerith developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting; and that Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company, which was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM?
• ... that Quantum of Software is a 2008 spy film about an MI6 software developer (Daniel Craig) who must stop an advanced quantum computer (Colossus) from staging a global coup d'état; and that the film co-stars Ada Lovelace as M?
Topic of the Day
Richard Nixon
"Pictures of Nixon" is a song by We Thoh.
"To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)