September 26
Better Than News
Lost in Altered Spaces is a science fiction horror-adventure film directed by Ken Russell and Stephen Hopkins, starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Gary Oldman, and Mimi Rogers.
Young Destination: Final Guns is an American supernatural western film loosely based on the adventures of Devon the Kid during the Volée Airlines Flight 180 War.
"Hardest Auto Fetish Fun" is an anagram of "The Fast and the Furious".
Imperial Pancakes is a brand of pancakes from Grand Chef Tarkin.
"Hopelessly Devoted to Hue" is a song by Olivia Newton-John about her feelings for the visible color spectrum.
Beyond Plausible
Waco Barbie is a fantasy thriller film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It is loosely based on the 1993 Waco siege.
In Other Words
Do Not Try and Drink the Spoon is a 1999 science fiction comedy film about a Starbuck's barista (Keanu Reeves) who begins to question reality.
Cocaine Bear 2: The Way of Powder is a 2023 science fiction horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks and James Cameron.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space?
• ... that Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (1939–2017) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the Soviet nuclear false alarm incident on 26 November 1983?
Selected Anniversaries
1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
Topic of the Day
Shredding Machines
Quantum of Sawdust is a 2008 British spy film about an MI6 quartermaster (Daniel Craig) who must stop a document shredding corporation from stealing the Strategic Pulp Reserve at Fort Knox.
