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The Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.
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Better Than News
Bierced is a 1999 American supernatural horror-lexicography film starring Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce. It is loosely based on the life of writer Ambrose Bierce.
The Eagle Has Assaulted Precinct 13 is a 1976 American action thriller film directed John Carpenter and John Sturges, and starring Austin Stoker, Michael Caine, Darwin Joston, Donald Sutherland, Laurie Zimmer, Robert Duvall.
Raw Meal is a 1986 American dietary film about an elderly and malnourished FBI chef (Darrin McGavin), who wants to get revenge against a Mafia cooking school and sends a former FBI short-order cook (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to destroy the school from the inside.
Junc is a 2022 American science fiction film based on the television series Sanford and Son.
House of Spice and Fog is a 2003 psychological drama film about the battle between a young Imperial princess (Jennifer Connelly) and an immigrant warlord (Leto Atreides) over the ownership of the planet Arrakis.
"Don't It Make My Dune Eyes Blue" is a song by Crystal Gayle and Frank Herbert.
Beyond Plausible
In Other Words
"Tweetsleeves" is a traditional social media folk song.
Are You Sure ...
... that mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel made pioneering contributions to graph theory, and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color theorem?
... that a cryptographic numen (plural numina) is a type of numen which occurs during certain actions relating to cryptography; and that gray light, a related phenomena, often appears when artificial intelligences perform cryptographic computations?
... that the 1999 American supernatural horror-lexicography film Bierced is loosely based on the life of writer Ambrose Bierce?
Selected Anniversaries
1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the Four color conjecture.
2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO engineers call it "a remarkable breakthrough."
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
Baby Sarlacc is a trade name for a juvenile sarlacc, popular as a novelty pet.
I felt a great disturbance in the Net as if millions of users suddenly tweeted in boredom."
The Many Vocal Instructors of Darth Vader is a short instructional filmstrip about the thousands of vocal instructors who have lost their lives to Darth Vader over contract violations.
Interview
INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.
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