July 10
Better Than News
Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.
It Takes a Green is an American ecology-crime television series starring Malachi Throne.
Dial F for Frogs is a 1954 American ecological crime thriller horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and George McCowan.
Soylent Indemnity is an American ecological noir dystopian crime thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and Richard Fleischer.
Touch of Soylent is an American dystopian noir eco-thriller film directed by Orson Welles and Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Edward G. Robinson.
Soylent Green: A New Hope is an American epic dystopian space opera film directed by George Lucas and Richard Fleischer.
Dr. Greenmoney is a dystopian science fiction thriller novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was adapted for film by Richard Fleischer in 1973.
Planet Good Times and the Captaineers is a made-for-television documentary film about environmentalist superhero family living in a public transdimensional housing project in a poor, Euclidean-based neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.
Bio-Dane is a 1996 American comedy documentary film directed by Jason Bloom about Stephen "Guildenstern" Baldwin and Pauly "Rosenkrantz" Shore, two unemployed theater actors who agree to stage "Hamlet" in a hermetically sealed dome, only to discover that they are part of an ecological warfare experiment.
Beyond Plausible
Extract it all, let God pay the bill. —Baron Harkonnen
In Other Words
"Ecology Turret" is an anagram of "Grocery Outlet".
Are You Sure
... that Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit on 10 July 1962, and that two days later Telstar relayed a live television signal across the Atlantic?
... the Society for the Advancement of VALIS (SAV) is a provisionally licensed transdimensional corporation which promotes and advances the interests of VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), representing author and alleged time-traveler Philip K. Dick's gnostic vision of God?
Selected Anniversaries
1682: Mathematician and astronomer Roger Cotes born. Cotes will work closely with Isaac Newton, proofreading the second edition of Newton's Principia. Cotes also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula.
1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1962: Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Two days later Telstar will relay a live television signal across the Atlantic.
Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
Topic of the Day
Fire
Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
Signed first edition of Fire Dance spontaneously bursts into flames after performing Carmen before a sold-out crowd at Opera Hall in New Minneapolis, Canada. Despite extensive damage from fire and smoke, almost all of the data from the performance will be recovered.
Les Empyrées was a direct computational action collective which emerged during the later stages of the French Revolution.
