November 2

Better Than News

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  Get Pepin is a 1995 American gangster comedy revisionist history film about Pepin the Short (714 – 24 September 768), King of the Franks and the first Carolingian to become king.

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  Aleph-Null Boy is an animated children's superhero set theory educational television series.

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  "When I use Huffman coding," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

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  "Golden Tomahawk Fight" is a short story by an anonymous ship's cook who describes a harrowing encounter with ruthless treasure hunters seeking the legendary Golden Tomahawk Steak.

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  Bird Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir ornithology film about G, a young Nexus-9 replicant "bird runner" (Ryan Gosling) who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize his flock and the course of migration.

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  Jurassic Syrup is a Canadian science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is loosely based on the Great Canadian maple syrup heist.

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  Daniel Boone, Land Speculator is a biography of Daniel Boone by Anonymous.

Beyond Plausible

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  Hummeresque is a 1920 American silent drama film about a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General.

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  Night of the Lepus 2 is a 1973 black comedy foodie horror film about a frozen rabbit which seeks revenge on a celebrity chef (Gordon Ramsay) and his students.

In Other Words

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  Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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  Death Tastes a Haymaker is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film in which Death takes on human form (Fredric March) for three days in order to drink switchel.

Are You Sure

• ... that George P. Metesky terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices?

• ... that mathematician and philosopher George Boole was a pioneer of algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic?

• ... that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

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  1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

Topic of the Day

Neal Stephenson

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  The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is an autonomous artificially intelligence film based on Grand Theft Anathem.

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  Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.