July 29
Better Than News
The C-Files is an American science fiction drama-sitcom television series set in a bar near FBI headquarters in Washington, where a group of agents meet to drink, relax, and discuss paranormal phenomena.
How Stella Got Bigfoot Back is a romantic horror documentary film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan and Bobcat Goldthwait, and starring Angela Bassett, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Of Mice and Squid is a 1939 South Korean survival drama television series about two men, George (Burgess Meredith) and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie (Lon Chaney Jr.), trying to survive a contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a
NiCaddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film about Nickel–cadmium battery technology.
Misery Report is an American science fiction psychological thriller film starring Kathy Bates, James Caan, and Tom Cruise.
Beyond Plausible
The Stevedore Miller Band is a compilation album by American longshoreman's union and rock band The Stevedore Miller Band.
Fleetwood Big Mac are a British-American rock fast-food band, formed in London in 1967.
Climate Change Frog Soup is a global climate change themed restaurant franchise.
In Other Words
Epik is a 1969 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in video games, while cryonic technology allows professional gamers to extend their careers.
Are You Sure
... .. that mathematician and physician Marcel-Paul Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory?
Selected Anniversaries
1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.
1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
Topic of the Day
Richard Nixon
"Pictures of Nixon" is a song by We Thoh.
Easy-Bake Kitchen Debate is a 1959 buddy comedy film about a U.S. Vice President (Richard Nixon) and a Soviet First Secretary (Nikita Khrushchev) who exchange informal remarks through interpreters at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959.
"To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)