July 12
Better Than News
Pink Zeppelin is a studio album recorded by British rock bands Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
Bread Zeppelin is a British-American rock band comprising Led Zeppelin and Bread.
"One After 404" is a song by the English rock band the HTTPeatles from their 1970 album Let It Go.
"Careful With That Bic, Eugene" is a fire safety awareness campaign song written and performed by Pink Floyd.
Zepsis is a mental condition that arises when the mind's response to lack of Led Zeppelin causes injury to its own perceptions and interpretations.
Beyond Plausible
Moonrashers is a 1979 spy cooking film in which James Bond (Roger Moore) must stop a deranged celebrity chef (Dom DeLuise) from burning the world's entire supply of bacon.
In Other Words
Looking for Mister Goodwar a novel by American writer [REDACTED] which the New Minneapolis Herald-Mercury summarizes as "a woman's passive complicity in her nation's military-industrial complex."
Are You Sure
... that vigilantes kidnapped and forcibly deported nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona on this day in 1917?
... that centaurs do not have exoskeletons and are therefore not members of Euarthropoda, the phylum which includes insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans?
... that Bill Cosby has been accused by over 60 women of rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, but has not been convicted of any crimes despite several trials?
Selected Anniversaries
1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
Topic of the Day
Tools
A Rivet Runs Through It is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) about construction and home repair.
To Hasp and Hasp Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida who seeks a legendary treasure chest.
I, Rivet is a 2004 American industrial manufacture training film about a highly intelligent robot (Will Smith) who investigates the alleged failure of substandard fasteners.
"Level Woman" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.
Circe du Saws is a touring saw-juggling company.
Cool Hand Lube is a 1967 psychological crime thriller film about Luke Jackson, a decorated World War II veteran who wages a one-man war on corrupt parking meters.
Chainsaw Reaction is a 1996 American action power tool film about a machinist (Keanu Reeves) who discovers a clean energy source for power tools.
Say Tool... is a 1989 American teen romantic comedy home repair film which follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average handyman, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the Steward for Plumbers and Pipefitter's Union.
A Gouda gun is a type of hand tool for applying Gouda cheese in a precise and often decorative manner.
