September 3
Better Than News
Swampfellas is a crime horror drama film written by Alan Moore and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Casino Bull is an American biographical film written and directed by Martin Scorsese about famed Las Vegas casino manager Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles).
No Country for Raising Arizona is an American crime drama film written, directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, staring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, and Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin.
The Linkin Park Lawyer is an American legal thriller film directed by Brad Furman. It stars Matthew McConaughey as the titular lawyer, Mickey Haller, and members of American rock band Linkin Park, who hire Haller to defend them from an unscrupulous music industry executive.
Planet of the Tweets is a 2022 American science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future where humans have been replaced by Twitter posts.
"You're So Veins" is a song by musician-physiologist Carly Simon
Inspirational Messages from Godzilla is an inspirationally oriented podcast written and hosted by Godzilla.
Are You Sure
... that Forbidden Graph Characterization is a criminal mathematical function created by the rogue mathematician Anarchimedes?
... that Invasion of the Birkenstockers is a dramatic re-enactment of the "Birkenstock Scare" of the early 2020's?
... that the USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio, killing fourteen of her 42-man crew, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1803: Chemist John Dalton uses symbols to represent the atoms making up molecules of different elements.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1925: USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, is destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio killing fourteen of her 42-man crew, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
Ocean's NFTs is a 2001 American NFT heist film about NFT broker Danny Ocean (George Clooney), who plans to delete $160 million in ape NFTs belonging to zoo-themed casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy García).
The Brother From NFT Planet is a 1984 American science fiction film about an NFT-based extraterrestrial trapped on Earth.
1969: Premiere of NFT Cowboy, an American buddy drama film about the unlikely friendship between two NFT hustlers: naïve sex worker Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Hoffman).
The Token King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film about Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of the Non-Fungible Lands; however, after Simba's paternal uncle Scar murders Mufasa to seize the NFT passwords, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile.