November 12
Better Than News
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.
Goldfisher (1964): James Bond must stop aquaculture mogul Auric Goldfisher from stealing the United States Strategic Milt Reserve at Fort Knox.
How Green Was My Green Felt Jungle is a cautionary novel about a Welsh family and the gambling community in which they live: Las Vegas.
Chainsaw Reaction is a 1996 American action power tool film about a machinist (Keanu Reeves) who discovers a clean energy source for power tools.
Polenta and You (full title: Polenta and You: The Untold Story of the Niger Polenta Forgeries) is a young adult adventure story about the confusion between harmless polenta and radioactive yellowcake.
Panspermia Travel Agency is a travel agency run by and for tardigrades.
What killed Sigmund Freud might not necessarily kill you is an advertising campaign slogan promoted by HAL 9000 Mental Health Associates.
Defending Your Navel is a 1968 American science fiction religious film about an alien intelligence which threatens to "optimize" human anatomy. Starring Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
"Tweetache Tonight" is a song recorded by American rock band the Eagles about Twitter.
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
Doctor Moonrise is an American coming-of-age comedy-horror film directed by Wes Anderson and Mike Flanagan.
Moonrise, Alaska is a comedy-travel film directed by Wes Anderson.
Love Tussle is a cologne for dogs.
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?
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.