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Latest revision as of 07:58, 8 July 2024
Better Than News
Citizen Rushmore is a comedy drama film directed by Orson Welles and Wes Anderson.
Johnny Got His Code is an anti-war software development thriller film based on the novel by Dalton Trumbo about a military computer programmer (Jake Gyllenhaal) who finds himself trapped in a virtual military-industrial complex.
The Three Stigmata of R2D2 is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
The Alternating Current of Pelham One-Two-Three is a 1974 American thriller film loosely based on the life of Nikola Tesla.
Hawaii Starfleet is a science fiction police procedural television series set in Hawaii.
Harry Potter and the Reservoir Dogs of Fire is a fantasy crime film directed by Mike Newell and Quentin Tarantino, starring David Tennant, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Steve Buscemi.
"Talking Duality Blues" is a traditional quantum folk song about wave-particle dualism.
Beyond Plausible
"Big Bad Bill (is William Carlos Williams Now)" is a 1924 song about a man who was once a fearsome and rough character known for getting into fights, who, after getting married, becomes a poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
"Don't It Make My Dune Eyes Blue" is a song by Crystal Gayle and Frank Herbert.
I Go-Go Pogo is a short documentary film about how Pogo Possum influenced the emergence of go-go dancing in America.
In Other Words
1959: The Ham Omelette breakfast cafe and Shakespearean playhouse opens in New Minneapolis, Canada.
A portable Envy device allows the user to offload, and later re-upload, the emotion of envy.
If I Won the Lottery is a song by Tim Hardin 1.1.
Are You Sure
... that physicist Hugh Everett III proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics?
... that actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveler Niles Cartouchian exists as separate but mutually aware individuals in different centuries spanning at least four hundred years?
Selected Anniversaries
1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
Topic of the Day
Books
Look Homeward, Ulysses is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.
Can Fish Microwave Soup is a grocery shopping thriller novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.