November 12
Better Than News
Rollerthief is a dystopian science fiction sports heist thriller film directed Norman Jewison and Michael Mann, starring James Caan, John Houseman, and Tuesday Weld.
The Secret of ISBN is a 1982 American animated fantasy library science film about a strain of rats which have been genetically engineered to mimic ISBN codes.
The Guitar Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the 1972 song by David Gates starring Peter O'Toole Sophia Loren and directed by Arthur Hiller.
ED-209 of Orange is a science fiction romance-thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, and Peter Weller.
Beyond Plausible
Networktown is an American neo-noir thriller drama film about a ruthless entrepreneur (Faye Dunaway) who uses her computer network company to track down "the man with the broken nose".
In Other Words
Southrop Grumman Corporation is a British multinational aerospace and defense technology company based in Gloucestershire, England on the River Leach.
The Shakespeare-Magellan high-energy literature experiment will re-route Shakespeare's quantum timeline such that the Bard produces his entire body of historical work while serving as a Liberal Arts adjunct to Magellan's Expedition.
Are You Sure
• ... that astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was guillotined during the Reign of Terror?
• ... that the biographical documentary film Star Trek Days, Esperanto Nights: The Many Worlds of William Shatner was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto?
Topic of the Day
Walt Disney
Profit-Centers of the Caribbean is a series of lectures on macroeconomic theory produced by The Jerry Bruckheimer Enterprise and based on Walt Disney's balance sheet of the same name.
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Machine Elf" is the battle cry of the rebel Tao Te Gnom fighters.
Artificially intelligent brass knuckles are sometimes called "conjoined twin Mickey Mice" in a playful yet derisive satirical allusion to the Disney Corporation.
Old Thumper is an American drama film about a Fremen boy and a stray dog on post-Butlerian Jihad Arrakis.
Wodka on Ice is a satirical re-imagining of Disney on Ice.
