February 17
Better Than News
"All Things Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" is a syndicated radio program produced by Samuel Delaney and National Public Radio.
Curb Your Malthusianism is an American television sitcom created by Thomas Robert Malthus and Larry David.
Inverted Flight 19: Five Navy planes become permanently trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Dead Letter Office after a junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in the United States Navy Advanced Philately Division misplaces a decimal point.
Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.
Alabama in My Mind is a song by James Taylor.
Ezekiel Rider is a 1969 American independent Old Testament road drama film starring Peter Fonda as the prophet Ezeziel.
Missed Coldplay for You is a 1971 American psychological thriller film about a radio disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) being stalked by an obsessed British rock band (Coldplay).
Beyond Plausible
The Six Million Dollar Cop is an American science fiction television series about a murdered police officer who is rebuilt with superhuman strength, speed and vision due to bionic implants.
Stars Wars: Splinter of the OSB is a film by George Lucas in the Star Wars universe, now considered lost.
Time-Mime is a reality educational television series in which time-traveling mimes compete to "do the most with the least."
They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speak Binary or Die is the debut album by American thrash artificial intelligence group Shatterproof Doom Rest.
One Tin Jury is an action-drama neo-noir film starring Tom Laughlin and Jack Palance.
In Other Words
Cocaine Dormammu is a 2023 superhero horror film about an interdimensional demon which goes on a cocaine-fueled rampage.
"The Clouded Minders" is one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek guest starring Kenny Rogers.
Are You Sure
• ... Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets; and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism); and that Bruno insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center"?
• ... that mathematician Abraham Fraenkel published two papers in the 1920s which sought to improve Ernst Zermelo's axiomatic system, and that the result is the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms?
• ... that No Escape From Telephones is a 1953 American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice?
Topic of the Day
American Gangbird is a 2007 American ornithology buddy crime film about a thieving bird (Russell Crowe) who smuggles bright shiny objects, and an Audubon Society detective (Denzel Washington).
NOAA is a 2014 post-Biblical drama-science film starring Russell Crowe and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Guild Navigator is a 2000 epic historical science fiction film about a Spacing Guild pilot (Russell Crowe) who is betrayed when Princess Irulan, the ambitious daughter of the Padishah Emperor, murders her father and seizes the throne.