February 28
Better Than News
DeWalt Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and industrial designer. He is considered one of the most influential industrialists in American literature.
Call me HTML is the iconic opening sentence of the novel Moby-Web.
Night Calories is an American anthology television series featuring stories of hunger and the macabre.
Thumper King is an international chain of spiced hamburger fast food restaurants.
Are You Sure
• ... that philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne popularized the essay as a literary genre?
• ... clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi was renowned in his lifetime for his mechanical engineering skills?
• ... that F5 is an artificial beverage derived from illegal mathematical functions?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1967: Modern dance geology company Rhizolith Group debuts a new work, "Coriolis Force and Particulate Deposit Patterns in Paleoglacial Sedimentary Deposits".
Topic of the Day
Batman
Dark Joker is a comedy buddy film about an angry clown who befriends a decadent sociopath.
Batman: the Premature Years is a supernatural nature television program hosted by Batman, King of the Bats. Premise: After his mother is murdered, eight-months-gestated Bruce Wayne is rescued by kindly bats and raised as one of their own. Starring Gary Coleman as the Kindly Bats.