August 10
Better Than News
The Hustler Proxy is an American sports romantic screwball comedy film starring Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jackie Gleason.
The Hudsucker FF is an American superhero screwball comedy film directed by Matt Shakman and Joel Coen, and starring Tim Robbins, Pedro Pascal, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Malkovich, and Paul Newman.
Hogan's Andersonville is an American television sitcom set in a Confederate prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the American Civil War.
Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer is an American dramatic police typography television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo.
The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is a 2008 superhero number theory film about a powerful Warden Fendant (Christian Bale) who must stop a deranged Thousander (Heather Ledger) from pronouncing the aut Anathem on the entire Concent of Gotham.
![Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.](/w/images/thumb/e/e7/Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg/112px-Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg)
Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.
Anathem (LLM Edition) is a science fiction novel by an anonymous large language model based on American writer Neal Stephenson.
Beyond Plausible
Dark Script is a science fiction psychological thriller about an intelligent explosive device (Bomb 20, reprising its role in Dark Star) which abandons its primary mission in order to write screenplays.
In Other Words
"Hydrangea" is a song by the English rock band and florists the Rolling Stones.
Are You Sure
• ... that "Jetsam Inn Had No Hero" is an anagram of "Martin Johnson Heade"?
• ... that when I read the words "JavaScript API" and "Microsoft Word", my bowels started writhing like a half-digested corn dog crying to be let out?
Selected Anniversaries
1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter Armand Borel publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
Topic of the Day
Paintings
"Jetsam Inn Had No Hero" is an anagram of "Martin Johnson Heade".
The Invasion of Sodom and Gomorrah is an Old Testament science fiction film by Major Ninth based on the painting The Invasion of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin.
