December 29
Better Than News
Die Hard: 1170 AD is an epic historical action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Thomas Becket.
The Best Little Boogie Nights in Texas is an American musical comedy drama film directed by Colin Higgins and Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Mark Wahlberg, and Julianne Moore.
Twitter 2049 is a 2017 science fiction social media dystopia film.
"Cawlifornia Girls" is a song by The Hobby Aces.
Bourbon Legal is a French-American historical legal drama and comedy drama television series starring Alexandre Dumas and James Spader.
Red Phone Missile Command is a telecommunications provider and nuclear war management service.
Beyond Plausible
The Blair Shark Project is a 1999 American supernatural marine horror film about three student oceanographers who disappear while shooting a documentary film near Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
In Other Words
Sphere and circumscribed cylinder, demonstrating how only the sphere is not a phallic symbol.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Leopold Kronecker said "God made the integers, all else is the work of man" (Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk)?
• ... that Hans Bethe once said that theoretical physicist and atomic spy Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history?
• ... that Artist-Engineer and amateur gardener Donald Tasmian unexpectedly discovered diagramaceous soil while attempting to hybridize several varieties of ornamental time crystals?
Topic of the Day
Pink Floyd
Pink Blob is a 1988 rock opera horror film about an acidic, amoeba-like alien organism that crashes down to Earth in a military satellite and devours a British progressive rock band (Pink Floyd) as it grows.
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.
Dark Side of the Dune is a Melange-themed concept album by Glossu Rabban and the Don't Let Me Be Misunderstoods.
"Another Trick of the Light" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's alleged lost 1979 rock opera The Light, allegedly written by [REDACTED].
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.
"Absolutely Croutons" is a song by the English progressive cooking band Pink Fried from their album Obscured by Foods.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit. This town deserves a high-fidelity first class travelling class of criminal. I think they need a Lear jet — and I'm going to give it to them. (The Dark Knight of the Tweet)