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Better Than News

  • Sandfall is a science fiction spy film starring Daniel Craig as a British MI6 agent who must discover the source of Melange, a drug which facilitates interstellar travel.

    Sandfall is a science fiction spy film starring Daniel Craig as a British MI6 agent who must discover the source of Melange, a drug which facilitates interstellar travel.

  • Hellraiser: Adventure Time is a fantasy horror animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and Clive Barker.

    Hellraiser: Adventure Time is a fantasy horror animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and Clive Barker.

  • The Man Who Shot Cat Ballou is an American neo-Western thriller film starring Jane Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin.

    The Man Who Shot Cat Ballou is an American neo-Western thriller film starring Jane Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin.

  • Mister Peanut Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Southern agricultural policy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.

    Mister Peanut Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Southern agricultural policy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.

  • Blade Wobegon is a 1982 American science fiction musical film about a police officer (Harrison Ford) who must find and kill a rogue android (Garrison Keillor).

    Blade Wobegon is a 1982 American science fiction musical film about a police officer (Harrison Ford) who must find and kill a rogue android (Garrison Keillor).

  • Salmon Fishing on Tatooine is a 2011 British romantic science fiction drama film about a Jedi fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who is recruited by an Imperial consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize the Emperor's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Tatooine desert.

    Salmon Fishing on Tatooine is a 2011 British romantic science fiction drama film about a Jedi fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who is recruited by an Imperial consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize the Emperor's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Tatooine desert.

Beyond Plausible

  • Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.

    Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.

  • Xena: Ring Princess is an American science fiction television series about Xena (Lucy Lawless), an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent by using her formidable fighting skills to now help victims of a lethal supernatural videotape.

    Xena: Ring Princess is an American science fiction television series about Xena (Lucy Lawless), an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent by using her formidable fighting skills to now help victims of a lethal supernatural videotape.

  • "Database Database" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.

    "Database Database" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.

  • Stinging Zelda is an action-caper game starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.

    Stinging Zelda is an action-caper game starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.

In Other Words

  • The Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus. The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.

    The Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus. The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.

  • Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.

    Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter (5 February 1915 – 17 November 1990) shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons"?

Topic of the Day

Jonathan Swift

  • Jonathan Swift Vineyards is a winery and Dionysery located in the 1667 to 1745 region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the county of Albemarle. It is among the 23 wineries located on the Prime Number Wine Trail.

    Jonathan Swift Vineyards is a winery and Dionysery located in the 1667 to 1745 region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the county of Albemarle. It is among the 23 wineries located on the Prime Number Wine Trail.

  • A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Veterans of the United States Armed Forces from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.

    A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Veterans of the United States Armed Forces from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.

  • Black Satire is a 2021 action-satire film starring Jonathan Swift and François Rabelais.

    Black Satire is a 2021 action-satire film starring Jonathan Swift and François Rabelais.

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