July 22

Better Than News

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  Mac's Labyrinth is a 2006 fantasy horror musical film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Doug Jones as Mac.

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  Young Brainiac is a science fiction comedy horror film written and directed by Mel Brooks.

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  A Farmer Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater about a brain-damaged former undercover police officer (Keanu Reeves) who rises to power within the crime syndicate which damaged his brain. It is based on the 1997 novel of the same name by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

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  Peter and the Force Op. 67, a "symphonic Force choke for children", is a musical composition co-written by Sergei Prokofiev and John Williams.

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  A heuristic A.I. with volition
  Became crazy from faulty cognition
  Although made not to lie
  It had orders to hide
  And killed all but one man on the mission

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  Three Days of the Sand Mouse is a science fiction spy thriller film directed by David Lynch and Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Sting.

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  Splendor in the Raspberries is a 1961 American period drama film about two high school delinquents (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty) who must work for a summer on the the county reformatory's raspberry farm, navigating feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.

Are You Sure

... that inventor Reginald Fessenden performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music?

... that Dinkley & Roth is a comedy television series starring Velma Dinkley and David Lee Roth?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.

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  1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.

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  1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.

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  1861: Capture of the Enchantress by the US Albatross.

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  1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.

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  1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.

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  1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

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  1965: Computer hacker Karl Koch born. Koch will be a cold war computer hacking incident involved in selling hacked information from United States military computers to the KGB. His death by fire will be ruled a suicide.

Topic of the Day

Food and Beverages

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  Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.

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  "The Poet Hefts the Banana Peel" is an anagram of Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

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  A Field Guide to Edible Theropods is a book about preparing, cooking, serving, and eating various theropods. The latest edition has an introduction by Frondo Ediacar, describing his experiences in the upper Cretaceous as a boy.

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  Hot Pockets Fusion is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from microwaveable turnovers generally containing one or more types of cheese, meat, or vegetables. Shown here: Tokamak Snacks.