December 15
Better Than News
"The Entertainer Within": A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into David Bowie and Bing Crosby. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)
Any Given Sunday 2 is a 1999 American sports drama film directed by Oliver Stone depicting a fictional professional American football team which repeatedly violates local noise ordinances.
Bigger truths have smaller truths
Within their facts to bind 'em
And those facts have smaller facts
And so on, till you find 'em.
—"Siphonaptera 2"
The Pompeii and Circumstance Marches (full title: Pomp and Circumstance Psychedelic Rock Marches) are a series of five (or six) marches for orchestra composed by Pink Floyd in collaboration with Sir Edward Elgar.
"I Stockholm That Emotion" is a song by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Beyond Plausible
"Sally Field Forever" is a lost song by The Beatles.
In Other Words
The Adventures of Professor Lagniappe is an adventure novel by OrbGazer about a New Orleans merchant who is secret Professor Lagniappe, who delights in arranging for children to receive small gifts after they make a purchase.
There is No Bad Coffee. Only coffee and not coffee.
Are You Sure
• ... that engineer George Cayley (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) conducted pioneering research in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight?
• Hellcuppa is a 1987 British supernatural horror film about a mystical coffee cup which summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between caffeinated and decaffeinated?
Selected Anniversaries
1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
Topic of the Day
Cubes
Hellcuber is a 1987 British geometry horror film about a haunted Rubik's cube which summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic mathematicians who cannot differentiate between proofs and conjectures.
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Borg" is a song English singer-songwriter Elton John 1.1.
Moon Cube is Okay is a 2022 coming-of-age film about a Chinese lunar rover (Yutu-2) which discovers a mysterious cube-like object on the moon.
