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| [[File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|300px|thumb|Artist-Engineer [[Don Tasmian]] [[computation (nonfiction)|computes]] a new variety of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithm]] from a numeric grid of [[Diagramaceous soil]].]]'''''Fiction''''' is an ongoing work of [[fiction (nonfiction)|fiction]] and [[nonfiction (nonfiction)|nonfiction]] by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].
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| | '''''The Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of fiction and nonfiction by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]. Fresh content daily.<br> |
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| Artist-Engineers in a wide range of fields are discovering new uses for [[Diagramaceous soil]].
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| In this photograph, an [[Don Tasmian]] [[computation (nonfiction)|computes]] a new variety of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithm]] as a clarifying agent for wager-based [[Scrying engine|scrying engines]]. | | == In Other Words == |
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| File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at Hopalong.
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| File:Papillon_book_cover.jpg|link=Papillon (nonfiction)|Re-emitted red light suggests that [[Fugitive Rubies]] is secretly manipulating ''[[Papillon (nonfiction)|Papillon]]'', say [[High-energy literature|High-energy literature theorists]].
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| Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|Captured supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] involuntarily luminesces under green laser interrogation, re-emits red light.
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| File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|Fruiting body of ''Bourbaki virages dangereux'' nominated as symbol of [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematics]].
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| File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|Join [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]], receive interactive 1927 expedition.
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| File:Brainiac head.png|link=Brainiac skull diodes (nonfiction)|Second-hand [[Brainiac skull diodes (nonfiction)|Brainiac skull diodes]] used for cut-rate [[Medulla oblongata (nonfiction)|Medulla oblongata]] upgrade.
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| File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|Latest version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
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| File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Scrying engine|Poet and [[wizard]] Jan Kochanowski adapts [[Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
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| File:Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft chronometer.jpg|link=Chronometer (nonfiction)|Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometer]] proud to represent all [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometers]].
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| File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] converts human sweat into [[Extract of Radium]].
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| File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] disguised as Tree of Life.
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| File:Confiserie orientale berlin lokum cream lemon, lokum.jpg|link=Crime team (nonfiction)|[[Forbidden Ratio]] and [[Gnotilus]] use [[Turkish delight]] as symbol of [[crime team]].
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| File:Angry Feller Karl Jones 600x800.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|''[[Angry Feller]]'' expresses anger.
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| File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Rumbustius|[[Rumbustius|Cat teaches geese a lesson they won't soon forget]].
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| File:Bertrand Russell in 1876.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|Young [[Bertrand Russell]] approves of peace talks.
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| File:Dinosaur studying mathematics.jpg|link=Chicxulub Chips|Dinosaur develops algorithm for [[Chicxulub Chips]].
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| File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|[[Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett]].
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| File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]].
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| File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge.
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| File:David_Hedison_releasing_neurotransmitters.jpg|link=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) (nonfiction)|"Neurotransmitters deployed" says [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) (nonfiction)|David Hedison]].
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| File:Klein bottles nesting.jpg|link=Klein bottle (nonfiction)|[[Klein bottle (nonfiction)|Klein bottles nesting]], trying to get some sleep.
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| File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
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| File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|[[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] upstages [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]].
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| File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=The Rubrics|Discovery of "Red Charter" implicates [[The Rubrics]] in blood sacrifice of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].
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| File:Twin_Cities_Rapid_Transit_Route_Map_1914.jpg|link=Gnomon algorithm|New study of [[Twin Cities|Twin Cities streetcar map (1914)]] finds [[Gnomon algorithm]] subroutines.
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| File:Pika-computational-activity.jpg|link=The Pika|New computational activity by [[The Pika]].
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| File:Madge_Palmolive.jpg|Consumer spokespersona says "[[geometry solvent]]" is nothing more than dish soap plus [[Extract of Radium]].
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| File:Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge.jpg|link=Grievous Mitochondria|[[Grievous Mitochondria]] pleasure barge accepting reservations.
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| File:The_Carpet_Merchant_(c1887)_Jean-Léon_Gérôme.jpg|link=The Nested Radical|[[The Nested Radical]] seeking permission to display Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting [[:File:The Carpet Merchant (c1887) Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg|The Carpet Merchant]] in upcoming art show.
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| File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") researchers visualize key section of "[[Wow! signal]]".
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| File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]].
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| File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|[[Jekyll (perfume)|New perfume "Jekyll" targets sociopaths]].
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| File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|[[The Boxes]] invest in [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]] because "sociopathy is good for capitalization of matter-based organisms."
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| File:Orson Welles War of the Worlds 1938.jpg|link=Humanity and other non-essential services|Orson Welles tests positive for catch phrase ''[[Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services]]''.
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| File:Carnevale Tenebre vise 600x800.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|[[Carnevale Tenebre]] uses vise to clamp souls.
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| File:Green_Spacecraft_img092_800x600.jpg|link=Green Spacecraft (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spacecraft]]'' sighted.
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| File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] less wrong than you think.
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| File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] uploads [[Turpentine delight]] into Brer Rabbit.
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| File:Adolf Woelfli.jpg|link=Outsider art (nonfiction)|[[Outsider art (nonfiction)|Outsider artist]] has no use for [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematicians]].
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| File:Soldiers with 9 mm pistols.jpg|link=Brandishing (nonfiction)|Soldiers issue final warning about [[Brandishing (nonfiction)|recreational brandishing]].
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| File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] upgrading to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
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| File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|"[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.
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| | '''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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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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