October 30
Better Than News
Scareface is a 1983 American crime horror film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. It tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in Miami during the Mariel boatlift and becomes a powerful zombie lord.
Stand by Z is coming-of-age horror film directed by Rob Reiner and Marc Forster, starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, and Brad Pitt.
Sit is a political horror film starring Clint Eastwood. It is loosely based on the lost short story "Trial Balloon" by Stephen King.
Fredd is a 2012 science fiction horror film about Judge Fredd, a horribly scarred law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in Elm City One, a vast dystopian suburbia.
Spice Wars is a 1977 American epic science fiction film about a young water farmer (Luke Spicewalker) who becomes involved in guerilla warfare against the CHOAM spice mining operation on Arrakis.
Beyond Plausible
Room 101 is an American psychological horror television series starring Lloyd Haynes and Paul Dano.
In Other Words
Diamonds Only Live Forever is a spy film starring Charles Gray as two enemy agents locked in a deadly game of wits.
Fitzcarraldo and the Holy Grail is an epic adventure comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski and Monty Python.
Are You Sure
• ... that electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine?
Selected Anniversaries
1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
Topic of the Day
Video games
Bourne Kong is a 2021 action-zoology film starring Matt Damon.
Wick Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed by John Wick for close-quarters combat.
Bottlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat arcade videogame. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and bottles of milk, using a small radar scanner to locate enemies around them in the barren landscape.
Dux Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game based on the Duxtop Portable Induction Cooktop.