June 19
Better Than News
The Fabulous Eastwick Boys is a neo-noir drama comedy romance film starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, and Jack Nicholson.
"Tank Girl" is a song recorded by the Temptations for the British comic book series of the same name.
"Heavy Weather" is a song by Billie Holiday and Bruce Sterling.
A Brie Too Far is a 1977 epic war film depicting Operation Farmer's Market, a failed Allied operation in Nazi-occupied cheese factories during World War II.
The Paine Commandments is an American epic religious drama film about Thomas Paine's commentary on Moses's Laws.
Titanic Maru is a 2022 international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu.
Beyond Plausible
In Other Words
Taco Bell 2049 is a multinational chain of science fiction themed post-Mexican virtual holographic cuisine fast-food restaurants.
Are You Sure
• ... that surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid made pioneering contributions to hypnotism and hypnotherapy?
• ... that combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon has been tentatively identified in at least eight different locations across more than two thousand years?
Selected Anniversaries
1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
Apples (19 June 2023) @ 7:17 p.m.
Topic of the Day
Books
A Pocket Guide to Cholera is a handbook for cholera cosplay.
Titration Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean about a reagent, termed the titrant or titrator, which is prepared as a standard solution of known concentration and volume. The titrant reacts with a solution of analyte (which may also be termed the titrand) to determine the analyte's concentration. The volume of titrant that reacted with the analyte is termed the titration volume.
Naked Lottery is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs.
Erotic Maps of Undersea Cables is an annual publication by diarist Anaïs Nin of her thoughts on the world's most arousing undersea cables.
