June 30
Better Than News
Apocalypse Rider is an American epic road drama war film directed by Peter Fonda and Francis Ford Coppola, starring Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, and Peter Fonda.
Die Hard: Gabriel's Revenge is an American superhero action horror film starring Keanu Reeves, Alan Rickman, Tilda Swinton, and Bruce Willis.
Titanic 2: The Way of Water is a romantic science fiction drama film by James Cameron about a human couple who crash-land on an alien planet (Pandora).
Maleficent Robot is an American drama thriller television series a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression (Rami Malek) who must stop an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" (Angelina Jolie) from releasing a deadly computer virus.
D-Ring: Agent of Suspense is a British television series featuring Patrick McGoohan as secret home repair engineer Dee Ring.
Computational Muttonchops (full title: Computational Muttonchops: Isaac Asimov and Your Pocket Calculator) is a cautionary documentary LP record album about writer, scientist, and alleged time-traveler Isaac Asimov.
Beyond Plausible
The Dune Knight is 2008 action-ecology film starring Christian Bale and Timothée Chalamet.
Rush Hour 2049 is a 2022 science fiction crime comedy buddy film starring Chris Rock, Jackie Chan, and Ryan Gosling.
The Starlet Empress is a 1934 American historical drama film starring Catherine the Great as film star Marlene Dietrich.
"You'll Never Find Another Twitter Account Like Mine" is a song by Lou Rawls.
Sumerian Twitter is a time travel research project which extends Twitter into the Sumerian civilization (c. 5500 – c. 1475 BC).
PFAS are Forever is an advertising campaign slogan promoting gem-grade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
In Other Words
Dawson's Plague is an American teen horror television series about a close-knit group of friends who simultaneously emerge from their comatose state and massacre all the adults of Capeside, Massachusetts.
Golden Girls Quest is an American animated science fiction adventure television series voiced by Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty.
Boogie Jedi Knights is a 1997 American science fiction drama film starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Alec Guinness.
Are You Sure
... that the Tunguska event was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, 1908; that the explosion flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest; that eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event; and that the explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a stony meteoroid about 100 metres (330 feet) in size?
... that Albert Einstein's article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (published in Annalen der Physik) introduced special relativity?
... that mathematician William Oughtred invented the slide rule in 1622?
Topic of the Day
Philip K. Dick
Sogum is a cosmic hygiene adventure film based on the novel Counter-Clock World by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
Safety Coffin World is a transdimensional corporation which provides live burial escape services.
Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.
The "Urine in rain" (also known as the "Sea Breezes Speech") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.