July 4
Better Than News
Rally Round the Matrix, Boys! is an American science fiction comedy dystopian patriotism film directed by Leo McCarey and the Wachowskis.
There Will Be No Country For Old Blood is an American historical crime drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones.
E.T. Rider is an American independent science fiction road drama film about two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from an extraterrestrial cocaine deal.
The Thomas the Apostle Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film about a millionaire businessman-sportsman (Steve McQueen), whose theft of a Gutenberg Bible draws unwanted attention from an independent insurance investigator (Fate Dunaway) and a restless Apostle (Thomas).
Matrix in a Red Dress is a 2022 pornographic science fiction documentary film about the Matrix franchise. Narrated by Hugo Weaving.
The Rabelais is a small hat-mounted missile for close-quarters combat.
Beyond Plausible
Straw Dog Afternoon is an American crime thriller film directed by Sydney Lumet and Sam Peckinpah, starring Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman.
Escape the Piña Colada Song is a horror-comedy musical film in the Saw franchise.
"Salty MacTavish Homesick Blues" is a lost song by Bob Dylan, known only from a handful of YouTube videos and social media posts.
Oregon Snake Bite is a historical drama video game.
In Other Words
The Wrath of Gorn is a science fiction war film starring Bobby Clark and Ricardo Montalbán.
Are You Sure
... that astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars?
... that Some Like it Haute is short documentary film about two short-order cooks who dress as French chefs order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Banquet)?
Selected Anniversaries
1804: Author Nathaniel Hawthorne born.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
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Topic of the Day
The Twilight Zone
Twilight Zone 2: The Legend of Serling's Gold is an American science fiction supernatural Western film starring Jack Palance as Rod Serling.
"A Time for Kangaroos" is a lost episode of the television series The Twilight Zone staring Bob Keeshan and Bennye Gatteys.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
"The Monsters are Due on MAGA Street" is a lost episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.