February 28
Better Than News
DeWalt Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and industrial designer. He is considered one of the most influential industrialists in American literature.
Call me HTML is the iconic opening sentence of the novel Moby-Web.
Night Calories is an American anthology television series featuring stories of hunger and the macabre.
Thumper King is an international chain of spiced hamburger fast food restaurants.
Beyond Plausible
Cyndi Lauper of the Third Kind is an 1977 American science fiction biography film about singer, songwriter and xenobiologist Cyndi Lauper.
Fitzcarraldo, the Wrath of God is a drama adventure film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski.
Where's Toto? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between the members of a band (Toto) and their senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with their love lives.
In Other Words
Marta and She-Hulk is a 2023 science fiction legal drama superhero television series starring Yvonne Craig and Tatiana Maslany.
From Russia With Laughs is a spy comedy television series starring Bob Newhart.
Fredd is a 2012 science fiction horror film about Judge Fredd, a horribly scarred law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in Elm City One, a vast dystopian suburbia.
Pulp Fission is a black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Are You Sure
• ... that philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne popularized the essay as a literary genre?
• ... clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi was renowned in his lifetime for his mechanical engineering skills?
• ... that F5 is an artificial beverage derived from illegal mathematical functions?
Topic of the Day
Batman
Dark Joker is a comedy buddy film about an angry clown who befriends a decadent sociopath.
Batman: the Premature Years is a supernatural nature television program hosted by Batman, King of the Bats. Premise: After his mother is murdered, eight-months-gestated Bruce Wayne is rescued by kindly bats and raised as one of their own. Starring Gary Coleman as the Kindly Bats.