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Latest revision as of 15:48, 19 February 2023
Better Than News
Successworld is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series about the Roy family, owners of global robot manufacturers Waypark RoyCo, and their fight for control during a robot rebellion.
Citrusball is a family of sports involving citrus fruit. Derived from basketball, citrusball is played around the world, with many diverse local variations.
Columbo & Wife is an American police detective television series starring Peter Falk and Susan St. James.
ED-209: Origins is a 2022 American superhero film about teenager Peter Parker, who gains robot super-powers after he is bitten by a radioactive robot.
Six Degreasers of Kevin Bacon is a 1982 American documentary film about dishwashing and kitchen cleanup narrated by Kevin "Six Degrees" Bacon.
Beyond Plausible
Full Metal Shining is a war horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson and Vincent D'Onofrio.
Dune: House Oppenheimer is a historical drama science fiction film about Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the Spacing Guild".
What Lies Beneath is a 2022 American supernatural art thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michelle Pfeiffer Vincent and van Gogh as a couple who live on a haunted potato farm.
Silent Looting is a 1973-2021 ecology cultural appropriation horror film about an alien race which steals antiquities from Earth and "protects" them in orbital vaults in order to gratify their incomprehensible aesthetic lusts.
Spray Bactine for Me is a 1971 American psychological thriller film about a radio disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) who is stalked by an obsessed nurse (Jessica Walter).
The New Fantastic Four is a science fiction superhero television series starring Kurtwood Smith.
In Other Words
Burt Lancaster's Wide World of Rugs is an American interior decoration anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961 to January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Burt Lancaster, with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general home and garden programs on the network until 2006.
"All Along the Water Tower" is a song by hydrological engineer and singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
2001: A Flash Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction superhero film about a police scientist who gains super-speed after encountering a mysterious black monolith on the moon.
Broken Constantine is a 2005 superhero horror film about an aging exorcist (Keanu Reeves) who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter stating that he has a son who resides in Hell.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements?
• ... that ENIAC ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies transmitted disinformation to potential alien civilizations in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies?
Topic of the Day
British bands
"Asking for a Friend" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones.
"Coppertunities (Let's Mint Lots of Money)" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Coins from their debut studio album, Planchets (1986).
"Olive My Love" is a song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin.
The Way We Blur is a Britpop romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, and Blur.
"I'm Just a Slinger (in a Rock and Roll Band)" is a song by the Doubly Some.
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.