April 2
Better Than News
"You Make Me Feel Like Busting" is a song by Leo Sayer about Wilhelm Reich and his invention, the cloudbuster.
John Wick 2049 is a science fiction crime film directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Keanu Reeves.
Indiana Jones and the Valley of the Dolls is a 1966 action-adventure novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. It was adapted for film by George Lucas in 1981.
Z2 is a 2013 political thriller horror film based on events surrounding the release of [REDACTED] under the Greek Junta and the subsequent spread of a worldwide fascism plague.
Waterworld 2: The Way of Franchise is a 2023 science fiction adventure film about an actor (Kevin Costner) and a film director (James Cameron) who attempt to redeem themselves at sea.
Cream Soda is a 1988 comedy romance film starring Tom Cruise as a soft drink salesman in search of the ultimate flavor.
Close Encounters of the Third Reich is a science fiction war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of defeat, which depicts Adolf Hitler's encounter with a UFO.
Beyond Plausible
At the Mountains of Batness is a superhero supernatural action-horror film starring Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy.
Harkonnen is a science fiction heist film starring Burgess Meredith as a ruthless interplanetary crime boss.
Hellraiser: Open Source is a 1987 British software horror film about a copylefted code base which summons the SVNobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic software developers who cannot differentiate licensed and unlicensed intellectual properties.
The Transformed Khan is a 1968 album by William Shatner and Ricardo Montalbán.
In Other Words
Bollard ball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, compete with the objective of using the bollard in an appropriate manner, for example locking a bicycle or mooring a ship.
Are You Sure
• ... that in April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk; that Soviet officials attributed the epidemic to consumption of contaminated meat, but that the actual cause appears to be the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at a military facility?
• ... that alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouted a new battle cry — "Be Gay Do Crime!" — at the Battle of Hastings?
• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
Topic of the Day
Fashion
What sort of man wears Esquire Socks? is a public awareness campaign which raises awareness of Esquire Socks and unwritten sumptuary laws.
"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" is a philosophical-hygienic assertion by Socrates.
"If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you" is an assertion by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Greaves of Defending Against Cthulhu are a pair of transdimensional corporations which conceal the wearer from the malefic supernatural entity Cthulhu.
2001: A 70's Odyssey is a short documentary film about the unofficial privacy, health, and hygiene issues faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when a rift in the space-time continuum drastically raises dress hemlines in the workplace.
The Man with the Golden Musket (1974): James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmicraises hemlines to the waist.
Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjunct to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens. Disclaimer: Sea-Monkeys not included. For external use only. Actual Sea-Monkey regalia may differ from crowns shown.