February 14
Better Than News
Hovering Hearts Conjugal Hotel provides intimate aerial meeting places for elevated erotic encounters. Shown here: Two BASE jumpers fly-falling to a daring aerial tryst on a gravity-free heart bed.
"Do You Know the Way to San Tropez" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Pink Floyd for Dionne Warwick, with lyrics by Hal David and Pink Floyd.
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.
The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.
"Luck Be a Bay Leaf" is a song about a sous chef, Earther Server, who hopes that he will win a bet, the outcome of which will decide whether or not he is able to prepare his signature dish with the garnish of his dreams.
Coriolis is a 2011 American action-Shakespeare film loosely based on William Shakespeare's physics textbook Coriolis about an inertial or fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.
Beyond Plausible
Pulp Valentine a 1994 historical crime drama film loosely based on the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
I Lean is a 1979 science fiction furniture horror film starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, and Charles and Ray Eames.
Greysmoke: The Legend of Tarsand, Lord of the Oils is a 2004 revisionist petroleum engineering film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912).
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for The Prisoner is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients who have extraordinary relationships with the British television series The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.
Modern Subs is a 1936 American part-talkie satirical romantic black comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in a modern, industrialized submarine.
A World of Eroticized Color Models is a 2022 autobiographical book by an anonymous Gnomon Algorithm theorist.
In Other Words
Down to the Quick is an erotic lunchbox fetish novel for young adults in the Salty MacTavish After-Lunch Mystery series.
Are You Sure
• ... that Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System, and that Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan?
• ... that engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley developed one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes?
• ... that "Have You Never Been Holden?" is a song by Oliva Newton-John and J.D. Salinger?
Topic of the Day
Valentine's Day