February 11
Better Than News
The Man in the High Mountains of Madness is a 1962 alternative history horror novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Brokeback Maverick is an neo-Western action-adventure romantic drama film starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Heath Ledger, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Where The Wild Things Were is a nonfiction book about the lives of the monsters in the celebrated children's book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
"Oysterday" is a song by acclaimed British pearl divers and rock band the Seaswells.
Hamill Wars on Ice is a series of touring ice shows produced by Dorothy Hamill and Mark Hamill under agreement with The Gnomon Chronicles Exotemporal Talent Agency.
Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 1984 science fiction war film about an Ape invasion of the United Human States.
SkyNet Xenobot Snacks is a brand of self-replicating snack food manufactured and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Beyond Plausible
Schindler's Lust is an epic historical drama mystery suspense thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and Steven Spielberg.
Mission Impossible: Web of Deception is a superhero spy action thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Tobey Maguire.
A Steampunk Lime is a 1971 dystopian horticulture film which employs disturbing, violent images to comment on citrus fruit in a dystopian near-future Britain.
The Dark Water is a superhero comedy thriller film starring Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, and Heath Ledger.
Blowup Doll is a 1966 psychological horror film about a pornographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; and that Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588?
• ... that the essay Man's Inhumanity to Man by writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes profoundly influenced three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers?
Topic of the Day
Carly Simon
"The Seventies Within"— A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into Carly Simon and Farrah Fawcett. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)
"You're So Veins" is a song by musician-physiologist Carly Simon.