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Latest revision as of 10:36, 17 October 2024
Better Than News
Spaceballs 2 is a science fiction comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott.
Slake is a 1998 American superhero drinking game film about an alcoholic with vampire powers (Wesley Snipes) who must confront his inner demons.
We Need to Talk About Constantine is an American superhero psychological horror film about the Archangel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton), who struggles to come to terms with her psychopathic son Constantine (Keanu Reeves) and the horrors he will unleash.
Dead is a 1988 American fantasy horror film about Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks), a boy who is reborn at the moment of his death after striking an unholy bargain with a supernatural fortune telling machine.
Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.
Barbie 2: Rise of the Bene Gesserit is a science fiction fantasy comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Ruth Handler and Frank Herbert.
The Man Who Fell to Ergonomics is a science fiction management training film about the importance of ergonomic design in the workplace.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters is a psychographic etching by the Spanish painter, printmaker, and alleged time-traveler Francisco Goya.
Khan Heir is a 1997 American science fiction film about a prison break aboard a United Federation of Planets spacecraft masterminded by the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).
Hellralpher is an American television series about Ralph, a boy with a magical box that summons the Cimpsons, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic cartoon animators who cannot differentiate licensed and unlicensed intellectual properties.
Beyond Plausible
How Green Was My Envy is a 1941 American drama film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, told from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who, despite the best efforts of affectionate and kind parents, grows up envious of others.
Beyond the Valley of the Squirrels is a 1970 American satirical musical animal rights film directed by Russ Meyer and screenwritten by Roger Ebert from a story by Ebert and Meyer.
Blowup Doll is a 1966 psychological horror film about a pornographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.
Donnie al Fresco is a 1997 American restaurant review film about an undercover food reviewer who infiltrates Bonanno crime family restaurants in New York City during the 1970s.
In Other Words
Rosemary's Alien is a 1968 American horror science fiction film about a young mother who believes she has given birth to an aggressive alien invader.
"The Clouded Minders" is one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek guest starring Kenny Rogers.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his Analytical Engine, while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.
• ... that the publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule in 2017 generated new interest in organic golems?
Selected Anniversaries
1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
Selected Anniversaries
1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
Topic of the Day
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeonville is a 1998 American teen fantasy horror film about two siblings who become trapped in a 1950s TV show, set in a small Midwest town, where residents must obey a mysterious, all-powerful Dungeonmaster (Don Knotts).
Freedom of Art, also known as The Thanksgaming Picture or I'll DM for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American game designer and artist Norman Rockwell.
Eye Floaters or Beholder Larvae is a public service campaign which warns people to distinguish between eye floaters and beholder larvae.
Saving Throw: The Journal of Stochastic Intercessory Prayer is a journal of professional saving throw studies.
Dungeons & Collins is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game set to the music of Phil Collins.