June 26
Better Than News
Indiana Jones and the Oompa-Loompas of Doom is an American musical action-fantasy adventure film starring Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder.
Graffitifellas is an American biographical comedy-drama gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, and starring Robert De Niro, Richard Dreyfuss, Ray Liotta, and Ron Howard.
Rosemary's Baywatch is an American psychological horror beach party television series directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Mia Farrow, David Hasselhoff, John Cassavetes, and Pamela Anderson.
There's Something About Rosemary is an American romantic psychological comedy-horror film directed by Roman Polanski and the Farrelly brothers, and starring Mia Farrow and Cameron Diaz.
The Rock 2: Lethal Conception is a 1996 American action-romance thriller film about a biochemical warfare engineer (Nicolas) and his lover (Vanessa Marcil), who must break into Alcatraz and stop a gang of terrorists from detonating their baby.
Jacob's Flatline is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and Adrian Lyne.
Beyond Plausible
Honest Wife is a comedy political heist thriller television series starring Julianna Margulies and Liam Neeson.
In Other Words
The Man on the High Bidet is a 1962 alternative personal hygiene war novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Are You Sure
• ... that computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes made numerous pioneering contributions to computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing?
• ... that Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event?
Selected Anniversaries
1274: Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2020: Accidental self portrait @ 8:28 pm.
Topic of the Day
Philip K. Dick
Flow My Androids, The Shepherd Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state reality television series. The story follows genetically enhanced police officer Felix Buckman, who wakes up in a world where he has never existed.
![Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles.](/w/images/thumb/0/03/Do_Elons_Dream_of_Electric_Jeep.jpg/120px-Do_Elons_Dream_of_Electric_Jeep.jpg)
Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles.
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