February 21
Better Than News
Taco Bell 2049 is an American multinational chain of science fiction themed post-Mexican cuisine fast-food restaurants.
Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.
2001: A Shine Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction horror buddy film which follows an alcoholic writer (Jack Nicholson) and a sentient computer (HAL 9000) on a voyage to Jupiter after the discovery of an alien fire axe.
Not Milk? (stylized as not milk?) is an advertising campaign encouraging the non-consumption of milk by Bronze-age warriors.
The Bounty Hunter starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler is one of the "Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek.
Professor Popper's Falsification Pumice Bar is a mental hygiene product derived from the philosophies of Karl Popper.
Beyond Plausible
The Screwtape Letters is a fantasy Christian apologetic satire film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It is based on the book of the same name by C. S. Lewis.
Full Metal Recall is a science fiction war film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Len Wiseman starring Colin Farrell, Matthew Modine, and R. Lee Ermey.
Twittergrades is a 2022 book about how Twitter's work policies stimulated the evolution of new species of tardigrades.
The war between consensus reality and reality is an ongoing high-energy literature research project.
In Other Words
Distant Wilhelm Screams is a 1951 American Florida psychological Western noir film about an Army captain (Gary Cooper) who leads a party of ghost hunters into the Everglades.
Hot Punch-Outs is an American brand of microwaveable fisticuffs generally containing one or more types of hitting, kicking, or head-butting.
World War I is a zombie superhero film about a United Nations metallurgist (Brad Pitt) who must find a cure for the Iron Man zombie plague.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues was one of the founders of projective geometry; and that Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honor?
Topic of the Day
Pierce Brosnan
Fly Another Day is a 2002 aviation-drama film about an aeronautical engineer (Pierce Brosnan) who must stop a ruthless secret agent (Ferdinand von Zeppelin) from destroying an advanced luxury airship.
Dune Another Day: James Bond must locate a mole in Atreides intelligence who betrayed him, and a Harkonnen billionaire who is later revealed to be connected to a Sardauker operative that Bond seemingly killed.