March 17
Better Than News
The Silence of the Rose is a 1986 action-thriller film about a Franciscan friar-assassin (Sean Connery) who is called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
The Game 2 is an American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Jason Statham.
"Pictures of Scully" is a song by The Who about Agent Scully from the television series The X-Files.
Brief Encounters of the Third Kind is a British-American science fiction film about two strangers who have an affair during a UFO event.
Tales from the Crypto is an American horror-economics anthology television series about cryptocurrency.
Leprechaun: Emerald City is an American musical fantasy horror film about a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his yellow brick road.
Close Encounters of the Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror science fiction film about a vengeful alien leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his spaceship.
Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
Beyond Plausible
"The Irishman Within" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Columbo: The Next Generation is an American science crime drama television series starring William Shatner as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, and Peter Falk as a time-traveling homicide detective from the future.
The Godfather Must Be Crazy is an epic comedy crime film directed by Jamie Uys and Francis Ford Coppola, starring Nǃxau ǂToma and Marlon Brando.
Shack Out in Raintree County is an American epic historical crime romance noir western film starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, and Lee Marvin.
Connect Foreplay is a two-player erotic connection rack game, in which the players choose a color and then take turns performing intimate acts while dropping colored tokens into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid.
"You Are the Shining of My Life" is a song by Stevie Wonder and Scatman Crothers.
In Other Words
McGuffin is an American political crime drama television series starring G. Gordon Liddy.
"To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)
Cocaine Leprechaun is a 1993 American substance abuse horror fiction film about a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his cocaine.
Little Man It is a 1991 drama horror film about Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to make adults see the evil clown which follows them everywhere.
Charlotte's Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell and E.B. White.
Are You Sure
- ... that mathematician and computer scientist John Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax?
Topic of the Day
Defibrillators
The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.
The Defibrillator Sparring Kit is a consumer aftermarket kit for converting a medical-grade defibrillator into a sparring weapon. Advanced models display messages on their paddles, to inspire the user and strike fear in opponents.