Template:Daily Favorites/December 2
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
Although badly faded, this medieval manuscript (the so-called "Red Charter") suggests that rogue members of the medieval Rubrics Gang were involved in the blood sacrifice of H. P. Lovecraft.
Hierarchy of the Rubric sub-tribes.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn vows to fight crimes against set theory.
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.
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-criminal efforts to develop the fictional yet illegal drug Clandestiphrine.
Page from SS Minnow script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
Advertisement for Baby Sarlacc.
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).
Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy infographic.
Promotional poster from the Cthulhu Pie Quality Control Board.
Typical 1922-era scrying engine with CCRU Module, visualizing the CCRU Spinal Diagram.
Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster (I-WQFT).
The Peano curve is an alleged transdimensional sexual topology which exerts pleasures normally unavailable to Euclidean organisms.
ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") researchers discover quantum entanglement of the Trinity Project and the Wow! signal.
Effects of the Jerusalem math virus:
Bring me my bow of burning code!
Bring me my arrows of Netwire!
Bring me my files! To Cloud, upload!
Bring me my CPU of fire!
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.
"Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" (LCCBB), a downloadable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.
High and Monstrous downloadable breakfast treats version 1.0, now with Overstimulated Adrenal Gland Garnish — !
Promotional poster for the Wandering musician problem.
"The way the Sixties are going, the Fifties are going the make the Forties feel like the Thirties!"
The Thing head and beholder theory posits that the walking Thing head from John Carpenter's film The Thing is a juvenile form of the Beholder from Dungeons & Dragons.
The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film involving adult temper tantrums and irresponsible handgun discharge.
Tardigrade spacecraft are any of various types of spacecraft occupied by tardigrades. This image from the aft berth compartment shows a scan-view of a passenger in its characteristic "cabbage pod" space suit.
Promotional art for They Live, We Eat, a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monumental Barkitecture is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
Still image from surveillance camera footage of a man being pursued by a large red ball, widely interpreted by conspiracy algorithms as evidence of a secret prison known as the Village, occupied primarily by Prisoners, and guarded by Red Rovers. See Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction).
Sun Sailer Cannibals is a chamber aerospace engineering rock band based in New Minneapolis, Canada. The band has received acclaim for its meticulous integration of advanced spacecraft design with hard-driving chamber rock music.
My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe is an ongoing real-time reality TV show starring "Dungeon Man Jack" (the incarnate shade of a long-dead Jack Nicholson). The show follows the lives and deaths of Dungeons and Dragons fans who challenge DM Jack for ownership of the Underlook Hotel in New Minneapolis, Canada.
The Playskool Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, better known as Playskool's My First DSM, is a children's publication for the classification of mental disorders using child-friendly language, simple shapes, and bright primary colors.
The Mat is a Generalization is a computational performance program by the goth-influenced mathematical ensemble Vampire Welcome Mat. Math critic and known fabulist Karl Jones calls it "an extraordinary and heart-felt tribute to the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski."
Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.
Deacon Billy is a proposed film in which actor Dennis Hopper will play Deacon Billy, a Merchant Marine captain who trades his ship and crew for the last motorcycle on Earth.
Oort Cloud Follies - August 1 - 3, 2020. All participants must agree to survey a sector of the Cloud. Media relations provided by the Journal of Irresponsible Astronomy.
The Terroir is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
The Birth of Alienation is a proposed film prank in which the historic film Birth of a Nation will be temporarily replaced by a high-budget spoof version, The Birth of Alienation.
They Live, We Study is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating aliens.
Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a 2020 comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell. It is the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.
Cover art for Blu-Ray edition of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine starring Mr. Kurt Russell and Sir Alec Guinness.
Aftermath of the "Lord of the Rings" disaster, physicist and raconteur Steven Brust's unauthorized (and now preliminated) experiment in high-energy literature.
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.
