December 10
Better Than News
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. It features Alfred Hitchcock giving gifts to his family, friends, and complete strangers.
Banging Miss Daisy is a 1989 American erotic comedy film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.
Golddigger is a 1964 spy film about a beautiful Russian secret agent who lures British spy James Bond into transactional sexual relationship for money rather than love.
They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? is a 1969 American psychological horror film about a group of individuals desperate to escape a Depression-era zombie invasion and an opportunistic emcee who urges them on.
Anchor Management is a 2003 American buddy comedy film about a businessman (Sandler) who must work with an unconventional ship designer (Jack Nicholson).
Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.
Beyond Plausible
Battle Racket is a 1996 war drama film by Wes Anderson, starring Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and James Caan.
In Other Words
Soldier Knowledge, Carnal Blue is an American revisionist historical Western sexploitation film starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Art Garfunkel.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) invented symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine?
• ... that mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was the first Jewish mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university?
• ... that a musical electroplating ensemble is a musical group which uses electroplating technology to generate music; and that often the electroplated objects serve as a score for the work?
Topic of the Day
Ricardo Montalbán
"Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
The Man with the Golden Musket: James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmic raises hemlines to the waist.
Khan Heir is a 1997 American science fiction film about a prison break aboard a United Federation of Planets spacecraft masterminded by the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).
Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.