January 10

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Better Than News

  • Peggy Sue Got Moonstruck is an American fantasy romantic comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Norman Jewison, starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, and Cher.

    Peggy Sue Got Moonstruck is an American fantasy romantic comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Norman Jewison, starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, and Cher.

  • Napoleon: The Professional is an epic action-thriller historical drama film directed and produced by Luc Besson and Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno, Vanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman.

    Napoleon: The Professional is an epic action-thriller historical drama film directed and produced by Luc Besson and Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno, Vanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman.

  • The Thomas the Apostle Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film about a millionaire businessman-sportsman (Steve McQueen), whose theft of a Gutenberg Bible draws unwanted attention from an independent insurance investigator (Fate Dunaway) and a restless Apostle (Thomas).

    The Thomas the Apostle Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film about a millionaire businessman-sportsman (Steve McQueen), whose theft of a Gutenberg Bible draws unwanted attention from an independent insurance investigator (Fate Dunaway) and a restless Apostle (Thomas).

  • Assault on Birdcage 13 is an action comedy thriller film directed by John Carpenter and Mike Nichols, and starring Robin Williams, Austin Stoker, Gene Hackman, and Darwin Joston.

    Assault on Birdcage 13 is an action comedy thriller film directed by John Carpenter and Mike Nichols, and starring Robin Williams, Austin Stoker, Gene Hackman, and Darwin Joston.

  • Zardoz Unchained is a revisionist science fiction Western film written and directed by John Boorman and Quentin Tarantino, and starring Sean Connery and Jamie Foxx.

    Zardoz Unchained is a revisionist science fiction Western film written and directed by John Boorman and Quentin Tarantino, and starring Sean Connery and Jamie Foxx.

  • Moonrashers is a 1979 spy cooking film in which James Bond (Roger Moore) must stop a deranged celebrity chef (Dom DeLuise) from burning the world's entire supply of bacon.

    Moonrashers is a 1979 spy cooking film in which James Bond (Roger Moore) must stop a deranged celebrity chef (Dom DeLuise) from burning the world's entire supply of bacon.

  • Metropolitan Triffid is a British police procedural science fiction television show about the Triffids, an aggressive alien plant which has taken hold in the Metropolitan Police Service.

    Metropolitan Triffid is a British police procedural science fiction television show about the Triffids, an aggressive alien plant which has taken hold in the Metropolitan Police Service.

  • Cthulhu Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".

    Cthulhu Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".

Are You Sure

• ... that the Union ironclad USS Cairo was the first ship ever to be sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand?

• ... that a musical electroplating ensemble is a musical group which uses electroplating technology to generate music?

• ... that computer scientist Donald Knuth contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it?

• ... that Project Diana marked the birth of radar astronomy later used to map Venus and other nearby planets, and was a necessary precursor to the US space program?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

  • 1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

    1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

  • 1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.

    1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.

  • 1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.

    1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.

  • 1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

    1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

Topic of the Day

Medicine

  • Intravenous clam juice drip is a means of ingesting clam juice without tasting it.

    Intravenous clam juice drip is a means of ingesting clam juice without tasting it.

  • Andy's Gangrene is a children's television medical program broadcast on the Gnomon Chronicles Network, hosted by actor-coroner Andy Devine 1.1.

    Andy's Gangrene is a children's television medical program broadcast on the Gnomon Chronicles Network, hosted by actor-coroner Andy Devine 1.1.

  • The Bedpan Zone is a 1983 medical comedy film about Johnny Micturator (Christopher Walken), a professor of urinology at a prestigious medical teaching hospital who awakens from a coma to find that his body wastes foretell the future.

    The Bedpan Zone is a 1983 medical comedy film about Johnny Micturator (Christopher Walken), a professor of urinology at a prestigious medical teaching hospital who awakens from a coma to find that his body wastes foretell the future.

  • "I'll show you, when the chips are down, these—ah—"civilized people"? They'll pop pills." (The Dark Nurse)]]

    "I'll show you, when the chips are down, these—ah—"civilized people"? They'll pop pills." (The Dark Nurse)]]

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