February 24
Better Than News
Jurassic Bat is a science fiction superhero film directed by Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan.
I, Ham Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic action foodie film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith as USDA meat inspector Robert Neville.
Galactic Tax-Healer is a study of the history of tax policies by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.
"American Plate" is a 1971 song by Don McLean about plate spinning and the end of innocence in America.
Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic). Now offering "It's Nearly K–Pg Boundary Time!" rush delivery within a half-million years — Guaranteed.
Hogan's Andersonville is an American television sitcom set in a Confederate prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the American Civil War.
Beyond Plausible
Little Birds: The Next Generation is an erotic science fiction television series based on the work of Anaïs Nin.
The Shop of Things to Come is a science fiction consumer society novel by British writer H. G. Wells about a future shopping expedition which ends in madness, death, and the Final Checkout.
Alien: Rise of the Sales Assistants is a 2023 science fiction legal drama film about a group of low-paid workers who bring suit against the Weyland-Yutani transplanetary corporation.
In Other Words
"Walk On By Under the Boardwalk" is a song first recorded by Dionne Warwick and the Drifters.
It Takes a Green is an American ecology-crime television series starring Malachi Throne.
"The Enemy Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles about the American television series Star Trek.
Middle-earth Farm is an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Neurotwitter is a 1995 dystopian social medial film about Johnny Mnemonic (Keanu Reeves), a man with a cybernetic brain implanted by Elon Musk.
Hellcheeser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film about a cheese-based snack food which summons the Cheddarbites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between Cheetos and Doritos.
Are You Sure
• ... that inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson built a Digesting Duck automaton with over 400 moving parts in each wing alone, and that the duck could flap its wings, drink water, seemingly digest grain, and seemingly defecate, although what the duck defecated was not the same as what it ate; and that Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world's first flexible rubber tube while in the process of building the duck's intestines?
• ... that America's Got Talents is a televised American weights and measures competition?
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
The Mothership is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is loosely based on George Lucas' 1977 film Star Wars.
The Empire Sews Back is a 1980 American epic space tailoring film a battle between the malevolent Galactic Garment Factory, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Apparel Alliance, led by Princess Leia.