Template:Daily Favorites/December 8
Carnevale Tenebre uses vise to clamp souls.
Karl Jones in demon costume, Halloween 2009.
Steganographic analysis of Angry Feller unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."
Tar-Baby 9000 uploading Turpentine delight into Brer Rabbit, as an experiment in reverse artificial hedonism.
Routine experiment in high-energy marine taxonomy unexpectedly generates a flock of non-Euclidean Sea Quetzalcoatl.
New study suggests that The Pika draws its computational powers a "dark computational source".
Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge sells at auction for over three point seven levels of Kolmogorov complexity.
Nysa on the Maeander offers to host a series of interviews with the Colossus of Rhodes.
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.
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.
Page from SS Minnow script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
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.
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).
Advertisement for Baby Sarlacc.
Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy infographic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High and Monstrous downloadable breakfast treats version 1.0, now with Overstimulated Adrenal Gland Garnish — !
"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.
They Live, We Study is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating aliens.
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.
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 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."
