October 18
Better Than News
Spaceballs 2 is a science fiction comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott.
Slake is a 1998 American superhero drinking game film about an alcoholic with vampire powers (Wesley Snipes) who must confront his inner demons.
We Need to Talk About Constantine is an American superhero psychological horror film about the Archangel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton), who struggles to come to terms with her psychopathic son Constantine (Keanu Reeves) and the horrors he will unleash.
Dead is a 1988 American fantasy horror film about Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks), a boy who is reborn at the moment of his death after striking an unholy bargain with a supernatural fortune telling machine.
Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.
Barbie 2: Rise of the Bene Gesserit is a science fiction fantasy comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Ruth Handler and Frank Herbert.
The Man Who Fell to Ergonomics is a science fiction management training film about the importance of ergonomic design in the workplace.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters is a psychographic etching by the Spanish painter, printmaker, and alleged time-traveler Francisco Goya.
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).
Hellralpher is an American television series about Ralph, a boy with a magical box that summons the Cimpsons, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic cartoon animators who cannot differentiate licensed and unlicensed intellectual properties.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his Analytical Engine, while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.
• ... that the publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule in 2017 generated new interest in organic golems?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
Topic of the Day
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fatal Recall is a 2021 automotive industry training film about the hidden costs of recalling vehicles. Narration: Sharon Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Little Terminator is a 1984 documentary memoir film by Arnold Schwarzenegger about his penis.
Raw Meal is a 1986 American dietary film about an elderly and malnourished FBI chef (Darrin McGavin), who wants to get revenge against a Mafia cooking school and sends a former FBI short-order cook (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to destroy the school from the inside.