May 25
Better Than News
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Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.
Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.
Second illustration from the Codex Nanobotica.
Stranger Thighs is an American science fiction horror cooking television series about the residents of the fictional small town of Chickens, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Chefside Down.
"Spock Invaders" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Spice Wars is a 1977 American epic science fiction film about a young water farmer (Luke Spicewalker) who becomes involved in guerilla warfare against the CHOAM spice mining operation on Arrakis.
Viagra Tastee Tape is a food-grade adhesive tape containing an active dosage of sildenafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Beyond Plausible
1988: Premiere of Die Hardly a medical action film about a New York police pharmacologist (Bruce Willis) who is caught up in the takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper by a ruthless pharmaceutical manufacturer (Pfizer).
Gravity's Expendables is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon about a team of elite mercenaries tasked with stealing a Nazi secret weapon. It was adapted for a 2010 film starring Sylvester Stallone.
Parkour for Liberty is a transdimensional parkour competition held annually in 1884 Paris.
In Other Words
"The Memes are Alright" is a song by the British rock band The Who.
"Something Wicked In This Way She Moves" is a song by George Harrison and Ray Bradbury.
The Lottery 2: Revenge of the Quants is an American psychological financial horror film loosely based on the short story of the same name by Shirley Jackson.
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 George Lucas worked closely with Frank Herbert on the 1977 American epic science fiction film Spice Wars?
Selected Anniversaries
986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer Gemma Frisius dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
Topic of the Day
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.
Soylent Greene is an American conspiracy horror documentary film about Marjorie Taylor Greene and gun overpopulation.