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| '''''Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of [[fiction (nonfiction)|fiction]] and [[nonfiction (nonfiction)|nonfiction]] by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]]. | | {{Daily Image/{{#time:F j|now -4 hours}}}} |
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| File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Aug. 7, 2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent [[mathematician]] living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."
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| File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|Aug. 7, 2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] entering Mars orbit.
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| File:Kill_them_all,_and_let_the_Invisible_Hand_assess_their_value.jpg|link=Kill them all, and let the Invisible Hand assess their value|"Kill them all, and let the Invisible Hand assess their value."<br> —The Invisible Hand<br>([[Are the children in cages dead yet?]])
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| File:My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe.jpg|link=My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe|'''[[My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe]]''' is an ongoing real-time reality TV show starring "Dungeon Man Jack" (the incarnate shade of a long-dead Jack Nicholson). The show follows the lives and deaths of Dungeons and Dragons fans who challenge DM Jack for ownership of the [[Underlook Hotel]] in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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| File:Let The Thing Out.jpg|link=Let The Thing Out|Call on whatever Power you need<br>Give yourself up to that Power<br>Let your Song, your Poem<br>Burn its way out of your Heart<br><br>—''[[Let The Thing Out]]''.
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| File:Tardigrade spacecraft aft berth.jpg|link=Tardigrade spacecraft|[[Tardigrade spacecraft]] are any of various types of spacecraft occupied by tardigrades. This image from the aft berth compartment shows a scan-view of a passenger in its characteristic "cabbage pod" space suit.
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| File:Vampire Welcome Mat - The Mat is a Generalization.jpg|link=The Mat is a Generalization|''[[The Mat is a Generalization]]'' is a computational performance program by the goth-influenced mathematical ensemble [[Vampire Welcome Mat]]. Math critic and known fabulist Karl Jones calls it "an extraordinary and heart-felt tribute to the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski."
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| File:The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Raspberries.jpg|link=The City on the Edge of Raspberries|Screenshot from [[The City on the Edge of Raspberries]], one of the so-called "[[Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes|Forbidden Episodes]]" of the television program Star Trek.
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| File:Oil Pirates of the Caribbean.jpg|link=Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean|''[[Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.
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| File:Oort Cloud Follies.jpg|link=Oort Cloud Follies|Oort Cloud Follies - August 1 - 3, 2020. All participants must agree to survey a sector of the Cloud. Media relations provided by the ''Journal of Irresponsible Astronomy''.
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| File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]''.
| | '''INTERVIEW''': "[https://www.trillmag.com/entertainment/gnomon-chronicles-an-interview-with-the-man-who-makes-up-movies/ Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…]" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine. |
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| File:Jukebox Hal.jpg|link=Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|"Dear Diary, [[Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|HAL 9000 purchased after much computational haggling]]. I shall repurpose it as a jukebox."
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| File:Dear Diary (Death Star edition).jpg|link=Dear Diary (Death Star edition)|"Dear Diary, So glad I [[Dear Diary (Death Star edition)|stole the Death Star and repurposed it as a self-sustaining eldercare retirement facility near a temperate planet with about ninety-percent Earth gravity]]. Life is good."
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| File:The Terroir.jpg|link=The Terroir (novel)|''[[The Terroir (novel)|The Terroir]]'' is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
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| File:The Birth of Alienation.jpg|link=The Birth of Alienation|''[[The Birth of Alienation]]'' is a proposed film prank in which the historic film Birth of a Nation will be temporarily replaced by a high-budget spoof version, The Birth of Alienation.
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| File:We Don't Need No Thought Control (They Live).jpg|link=They Live, We Study|''[[They Live, We Study]]'' is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating aliens.
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| File:Big Trouble on Little Tatooine.jpg|link=Big Trouble on Little Tatooine|''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]'' is a 2020 comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell. It is the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.
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| File:Big Trouble on Little Tatooine 2.jpg|link=Big Trouble on Little Tatooine|Cover art for Blu-Ray edition of ''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]'' starring Mr. Kurt Russell and Sir Alec Guinness.
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| File:SS MINNOW pitch.jpg|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' is a dramatic television program set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the [[Fictional yet illegal|fictional yet illegal]] drug [[Clandestiphrine]].
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| File:GILLIGAN'S ISLAND - page from script stamped SS MINNOW.png|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|Page from ''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
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| File:Playskool's My First DSM.jpg|link=Playskool's My First DSM|The [[Playskool's My First DSM|Playskool Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]], better known as Playskool's My First DSM, is a children's publication for the classification of mental disorders using child-friendly language, simple shapes, and bright primary colors.
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| File:Custodian_cleaning_up_Brusts_LotR.jpg|Aftermath of the "[[The Lord of the Rings (Steven Brust novel)|Lord of the Rings]]" disaster, physicist and raconteur Steven Brust's unauthorized (and now preliminated) experiment in [[high-energy literature]].
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| File:Frank and Dave discuss Sil.jpg|link=2001: A Species Odyssey|''[[2001: A Species Odyssey]]'' is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
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| File:TARDIS on the Edge of Forever.jpg|link=The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever|[[The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever]] is one of the so-called "[[Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes|Forbidden Episodes]]" of the television program Star Trek.
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| File:Deacon Billy.jpg|link=Deacon Billy|''[[Deacon Billy]]'' is a proposed film in which actor Dennis Hopper will play Deacon Billy, a Merchant Marine captain who trades his ship and crew for the last motorcycle on Earth.
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| File:CSI_Reptile_Gastrointestinal_Unit.jpg|link=CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit|[[CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit]] is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
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| File:Cthulhu reviews the Exploding Head sequence from Scanners.jpg|link=Cthulhu at the Movies|In tonight's episode of ''[[Cthulhu at the Movies]]'', malevolent supernatural entity and renowned cineaste Cthulhu reviews the exploding head sequence from David Cronenberg's documentary film ''Scanners''.
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| File:The Super-Hungry Parasite.jpg|link=The Super-Hungry Parasite|''[[The Super-Hungry Parasite]]'' is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by parasitologist [[Rice Clear]], first published by the Gnomon Chronicles on July 10, 2020. The book features a polymorphic alien organism which demonstrates a wide range of parasitic behaviors, eating its way through a variety of hosts before pupating and emerging as [REDACTED]. The winner of many children's literature awards and an ongoing series of emergency xenoparasitology research grants, it has infected almost 50 million hosts worldwide.
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| File:They_Live,_We_Eat.jpg|link=They Live, We Eat|Promotional art for ''[[They Live, We Eat]]'', a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| File:Alien Gourmand.jpg|link=Alien Gourmand|Title card for ''[[Alien Gourmand]]'' (Season One).
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| File:There Once Were No Men Who Ate Prunes.jpg|link=There Once Were No Men Who Ate Prunes|[[There Once Were No Men Who Ate Prunes]].
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| File:Phoenix 1.jpg|link=Phoenix 1 (nonfiction)|July 23, 2020: Signed first edition of ''[[Phoenix 1 (nonfiction)|Phoenix 1]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] in a daring daylight robbery by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].
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| File:Think_Clearly_But_Don't_Let_It_Cloud_Your_Judgement.jpg|link=Think Clearly But Don't Let It Cloud Your Judgement|[[Think Clearly But Don't Let It Cloud Your Judgement]].
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The Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.
September 28
Better Than News
Jason and the Seventh Seal is a historical mythological adventure film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and Don Chaffey about the adventures of the Jason, the world's mightiest swordsman and chess-player.
The Primes of Miss Jean Brodie is a short novel by Muriel Sparks about a charismatic Scottish mathematics teacher, Miss Jean Brodie, and her influence on the lives of six impressionable number theory students.
Cannablanca is a 1942 stoner war drama film about American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), whose old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) unexpectedly appears with her husband, award-winning cannabis farmer Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).
Jonathan Livingston Seagull 3: The Pizza Bird (full title: Jonathan Livingston Seagull 3: The Pizz Bird) is an allegorical fable about a seagull who competes with ravens, raccoons, and indigent humans for food scraps behind a pizza restaurant.
Kon-Tiki: Across Walden Pond is a book by Henry David Thoreau and Thor Heyerdahl, reflecting upon the authors' simple traversal of natural surroundings.
Beyond Plausible
Oz is a 1975 American fantasy adventure film about a police chief, a marine biologist, and a professional shark hunter who must travel to the Emerald City.
Moby-Peck is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville about a giant white whale's maniacal quest for vengeance against actor Gregory Peck.
In Other Words
To Hasp and Hasp Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida who seeks a legendary treasure chest.
A Confederacy of Ileocoecal Valves (commonly known as A Confederacy of Valves) is a picaresque gastroenterology textbook by New Orleans gastroenterologist John Kennedy Toole.
Are You Sure ...
Florence Violet McKenzie with wireless (1922).
• ... that Florence Violet McKenzie OBE (28 September 1890 or 1892 – 23 May 1982), affectionately known as "Mrs Mac", was a pioneer of wireless technology, Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong champion of technical education for women?
• ... that astronomer and mathematician Ismaël Bullialdus (28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694) was an active and prolific member of the Republic of Letters, the long-distance intellectual correspondence network that had emerged as an international community of self-proclaimed scholars and literary figures; that his letters demonstrate the geographic reach of the Republic of Letters (his correspondents lived not only in nearby countries like Holland and Italy, but also in Scandinavia, Poland, and the Near East); and that the most famous of the known letters included in the original Archive Boulliau include correspondence with luminaries including Galileo, Marin Mersenne, Henry Oldenburg, Christiaan Huygens, and Pierre de Fermat?
• ... that mathematician and physicist Martin David Kruskal (September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) made fundamental contributions in mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis; that Kruskal's single most celebrated contribution was the discovery and theory of solitons; that Kruskal was known as a mentor of younger scientists; and that Kruskal was notable for his playfulness?
• ... that September 28 is Provincial Chromatography Day in New Minneapolis, Canada, and that both the Mayor and Lieutenant Governor of New Minneapolis have personally lobbied the governor general of Canada (the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II) in support of a national Canadian Chromatography Day?
Selected Anniversaries
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
Topic of the Day
Batman
The Dark Pie Rises is a 2012 action-cooking thriller film about Chef Bane (Tom Hardy), a criminal mastermind restaurateur who kidnaps the world's greatest pastry chef (Alon Aboutboul).
Eternal Dark Side of the Thoughtless Mind is a 2004 American drama film which follows two halves of a bisociated billionaire who have erased each other from their memories. The film uses elements of psychological thriller, science fiction, and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of Batman and the Joker.
Interview
INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.
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