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Revision as of 07:17, 1 May 2024
Better Than News
2001: A Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones as a widowed mother who embarks on a second career in artificial intelligence security.
Titanic 2: Under the Sea is a 2023 comedy action-romance film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Five Recover Weather Data (full title: Five Recover Weather Data Spanning Over 200 Years) is a children's global issues adventure novel written by English climatologist Enid Blyton.
The Day After Barbie is a fantasy disaster film directed by Greta Gerwig and Roland Emmerich, starring Margot Robbie, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Gosling, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Unscanned Halo is an anagram of Claude Shannon.
Beyond Plausible
Only God Forgives Murders in the Building is a mystery comedy action thriller television series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and Ryan Gosling.
Steve Moper and Psych Sobad is a long-running American mental health adventure-vigilantism comic strip.
In Other Words
"Wojak Without You" is a song by the Irish rock band U2.
Five Easy Weddings and a Funeral is a drama buddy film about a surly oil rig worker (Jack Nicholson) whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as priest, and a serial husband (Hugh Grant) who wishes to marry five different women.
Are You Sure
• ... that electrical engineer Ralph Hartley (1888–1970) invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform; and that he and contributed to the foundations of information theory while working at Bell Laboratories, researching repeaters and voice and carrier transmission, formulating the law that "the total amount of information that can be transmitted is proportional to frequency range transmitted and the time of the transmission," and that Hartley's 1928 paper is considered as "the single most important prerequisite" for Claude Shannon's theory of information?
• ... that "Unscanned Halo" is an anagram of "Claude Shannon"?
Topic of the Day
Planets
Great Red Spot Cat Toys is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manufactures and distributes novelty oversized laser pointer toys for cats.
Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Red Spot Travel Agency is an exoplanetary retailer that provides travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.