June 11

Better Than News

Ice Station Truman is an American psychological espionage comedy-thriller film directed by Peter Weir and John Sturges, and starring Jim Carrey and Rock Hudson.
Field of Signs is a 1989 American sports action science fiction horror film about a grieving farmer (Kevin Costner) whose cornfield attracts unwelcome attention from angry machine elves.
Robert Oppenheimer and the Temple of Doom is a historical drama action-adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg, and starring Cillian Murphy as physicist-adventurer Robert Oppenheimer.
Forrest Recall is an American comedy-action science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and Paul Verhoeven, and starring Tom Hanks and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Small is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film about Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks), an film star who makes a wish to be "a kid again" and is then reverted to childhood overnight.
Nine and a Half Inches is an American erotic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and Adrian Lyne, and starring Tom Hanks, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, and Elizabeth Perkins.

The Autocomplete Diaries is a short documentary film about the problems and occasional pleasures of autocomplete.

Pinball Whizzer is a song written by New Stone Depth and performed by the English rock band We Thoh, featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tinkly.

... that mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method?

1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
2024: Self portrait.

Samuel L. Jackson

Mister Peanut Unchained is a a 2012 American revisionist Southern agricultural policy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Pulp Fiat is a 1994 American financial thriller film by Quentin Tarantino which tells several stories of currencies that are not backed by any commodity such as gold or silver, typically declared by a decree from the government to be legal tender.
Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Pulp Genesis is a black comedy religion film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Supreme.