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Latest revision as of 08:05, 2 January 2025
Better Than News
The Creation of Angel Hair Pasta is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel refectory's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives angel hair pasta to Adam, the first man.
"Fly Me to the Drone" is a song by Frank Sinatra about drone aviation.
"Emergency Tracheotomy" starring Popeye the Sailor Paramedic.
Walking Heads were an arctic rock band formed by a parasitic alien monster from the bodies of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison. Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed nightmares of the '80s", the group helped to pioneer new horror music by integrating elements of isolation, freezing temperatures, and fear of a monstrous alien life form.
The Coital cosmos theory (sometimes know as "Playskool's My First Big Bang", "Playskool's My First Panspermia", "Do-Over cosmos", etc.) is a cosmological model of the observable universe from the earliest known periods of sexual arousal through its subsequent evolution into any of various sex acts.
The Alternating Current of Pelham One-Two-Three is a 1974 American thriller film loosely based on the life of Nikola Tesla.
Judge Dredd Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a film science fiction drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Diane Lane and Diane Ladd.
Beyond Plausible
Of Mice and Penguins is a 1939 American superhero film about two men, George (Burgess Meredith) and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie (Lon Chaney Jr.), trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of running their own crime gang instead of always working for the Joker.
The Leo Sayer Who Fell to Earth is a science fantasy musical drama film starring David Bowie and Leo Sayer.
Quest for Hellboy is a 1981 prehistoric fantasy adventure film about the struggle by early humans for control of supernatural demonic forces.
In Other Words
Misery Report is an American science fiction psychological thriller film starring Kathy Bates, James Caan, and Tom Cruise.
"Ray Pontoons" is an anagram of "Tony Soprano".
Are You Sure
• ... that the reverse engineering of cryptographic numina occasionally causes bursts of pink light, the nature of which has never been explained?
• ... that writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía's Silva de varia lección ("A Miscellany of Several Lessons") (1540), an encyclopedic miscellany or mixture of subjects of interest across the diverse repertoire of humanistic knowledge of the time, became an early best seller across Europe?
• ... that mathematician and computer scientist Tom Kilburn led the development of a succession of innovative Manchester computers that incorporated a host of ground-breaking innovations and developments, including the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer, and the Atlas, one of the first time-sharing multiprocessing computers that incorporated job scheduling, spooling, interrupts, pipelining and paging?
Selected Anniversaries
1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.
1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He designed and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1970: Polymath Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
Topic of the Day
The Beatles
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.
"Getting Butter" is a song by the English rock group The Breadles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bread.
"Day Tweeter" is a song by the English rock band the Tweetles.
The Lord of the Ringos is an epic music-fantasy film about a drummer (Ringo Starr) whose riffs will decide the fate of Beatle Earth.