August 5

Better Than News

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  Agent Smith, Marriage Counselor is an American science fiction romantic comedy television series about a computer programmer (Keanu Reeves) who helps an artificial intelligence (Hugo Weaving) succeed as a marriage counselor.

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  Indiana Jones and the Twister of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film about cultural anthropologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), who is asked by the Milton Bradley Company to investigate a mysterious religious cult known as "The Game That Ties You up in Knots".

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  Dial N for NFTs is a 1954 American crime thriller film about decides to murder his wife for her NFTs and because she hacked his Tindr account the year before.

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  NFT, the Wrath of God is a 1972 epic historical drama film about Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of NFT investors down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of apes, El No Fungiblo.

Beyond Plausible

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  Goldplunger is a 1964 spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond, a British secret sewage agent who uncovers plumbing mogul Auric Goldplunger's plans to back up all of the toilet drains in America during the Superbowl.

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  The Orville Dead is an American science fiction comedy-horror television series starring Seth MacFarlane and Bruce Campbell.

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  The Six Million Dollar Tweet is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, who is rebuilt with superhuman social media proficiency due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret influencer by a fictional transdimensional corporation.

In Other Words

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  Abseiling the Giant Multi-Pen is a short autobiography by an anonymous climbing enthusiast.

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  "Someone Shaved My Skull Tonight" is a song by Elton John and the Three Stooges.

Are You Sure

... that "Order Up for So Crates" is a prank where I say "Socrates" when the clerk asks for my name?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1802: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel born. Abel will make pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

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  1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.

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  1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

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  1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

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  1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

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  1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

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  1994: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback dies. Krullback began his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) was formed in 1952, Rowlett become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.

Topic of the Day

Twitter

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  "Day Tweeter" is a song by the English rock band the Tweetles.

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  I felt a great disturbance in the Net as if millions of users suddenly tweeted in boredom."

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  The Dark Tweet is a 2008 documentary film directed, produced, and co-written by The Joker. The film follows Bruce Wayne / Tweetman (Bale), Police Lieutenant James Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart) as they form an alliance to dismantle twitter bots released by anarchistic mastermind the Ledger (Joker) to undermine Tweetman's influence and throw the city into Facebook.