March 5
Better Than News
Get Carter of Mars is a science fantasy noir novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. It was adapted as a 1971 crime thriller film starring Michael Caine.
"Like a Kraken" is a song by Madonna.
A Möbius bacon strip is any of a family of meat-based mathematical functions with only one fatty side (when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean frying pan) and only one meaty curve.
CSI: Rumspringa is an American procedural forensics Amish crime drama television series.
Jesus Needs Coffee is a 1775 painting by John Singleton Copley.
"Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Desperately Hanging Chad is a comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform.
Zinc nonperception syndrome (commonly known as transparent zinc disease) is a quantum psychoperceptual condition during which a sentient organic intelligence no longer perceives zinc: elemental zinc becomes invisible, soundless, intangible, and otherwise imperceptible.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician William Oughtred invented the slide rule in 1622?
• ... that Cthulhu Teaches Typing, is an application software program designed to teach touch typing; and that 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"?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1914: Nuclear physicist and academic He Zehui born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s.
2022: Release of Cthulhu Teaches Typing, 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".
Topic of the Day
"This city deserves a better class of tweets. And I'm gonna give it to 'em." (The Dark Tweet)
"It is impossible to read the same tweet twice" is a phrase attributed to philosopher and social media influencer Heraclitus 1.1.