Template:Daily Favorites/December 16
2001: A Species Odyssey is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
"I know I've made some very poor playlists recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal." — "Jukebox" HAL 9000
The movie is better than the book: 2001 A Space Odyssey.
"Straight Outta Pleistocene" is a song by American hip hop plant bioscience group Phytologists With Attitude.
Fruiting body of Bourbaki virages dangereux, the unofficial symbol of outsider mathematicians.
Asclepius Myrmidon converts Fabergé egg into field surgery robot.
Diagramaceous soil yields new variety of Bingo algorithm, useful as clarifying agent in wager-based scrying engines.
Homeopathic Sociopath is a transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as sociopathy-related soft drinks and other consumer oral vectors.
July 12, 2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and counteract geometry solvent.
Unexpected Moscow Visitor unexpectedly visits Moscow.
The Visitor Prince voted Children's Book of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
"Neurotransmitters released" says David Hedison.
Blue Flower voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
Carnevale Tenebre uses vise to clamp souls.
Steganographic analysis of "I Am the Two Bears" using techniques from high-energy literature unexpectedly generates first-order theological satire.
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
Steganographic analysis of Angry Feller unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."
The Mandalorian Dog is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short scrylmn by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.
Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge sells at auction for over three point seven levels of Kolmogorov complexity.
Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster (I-WQFT).
Page from SS Minnow script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
SS Minnow is a dramatic television program set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial efforts to develop the fictional yet illegal drug Clandestiphrine.
Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic).
