August 29
Better Than News
Harry Potter and the Fight Club of Azkaban is a fantasy black comedy film directed by David Findher and Alfonso Cuarón, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Edward Norton, and Brad Pitt.
Quest for Fire 2 is a 1981 prehistoric fantasy adventure superhero film starring Ron Perlman and Lou Ferrigno.
The Ergodicity Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic mathematical space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner about the idea that a point of a moving system, either a dynamical system or a stochastic process, will eventually visit all parts of the space that the system moves in, in a uniform and random sense.
Bene Gesserit Blues is a science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Alex Garland and Christopher McQuarrie, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac.
Aquifer Pharmaceuticals is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides exploration, recovery, processing, and distribution services to the groundwater pharmaceutical industry.
"Everything is going to be okay." —Messier 57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra. Source: Gnomon Chronicles Astronomy Society, a non-profit cooperative transdimensional corporation which interviews stars, planets, nebulae, and other cosmological phenomena.
Beyond Plausible
Watership Down Troopers is a science fiction adventure novel about a small group of rabbits who must learn to fight back after their meadow is occupied by two-legged monsters.
In Other Words
The Last Temptation of Gary Seven is a 1988 religious science fiction epic drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese.
Are You Sure
... that the Monarchy of Needs Hotel is an unlicensed transdimensional hotel which isolates your causal domain so that your Monarchy of Needs may be met at any price?
Selected Anniversaries
1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
1915: US Navy salvage divers raise USS F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
Topic of the Day
Pyramids
The Monarchy of Needs Hotel is an unlicensed transdimensional hotel which isolates your causal domain so that your Monarchy of Needs may be met at any price.