November 10
Better Than News
The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.
"The Trouble with Hobbits" is one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek.
RoboGodfather is an epic science fiction crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Verhoeven, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Peter Weller, and Kurtwood Smith.
Old Thumper is an American drama film about a Fremen boy and a stray dog on post-Butlerian Jihad Arrakis.
The Dark Knight of the Tweet is a violence-themed concept album by the Joker.
The Muesli Comes at Night is a 2022 short science fiction psychological dietary thriller film about a spacecraft officer (Sigourney Weaver) and an orphan girl (Carrie Henn) who must confront a mysterious cereal with a mind of its own.
Forget the Embers is a science fiction dystopian restaurant review television series hosted by Galactus, Devourer of Worlds.
Beyond Plausible
How to Marry a Vermillionaire is a 1953 American romantic color theory film about a trio of money hungry chromatographers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, planning to use the apartment to attract rich investors and corner the market on the color red.
The Jeep Twin Liberty Hauling System is a mechanical device which couples two Jeep Liberty vehicles side-by-side, allowing them to pull a large semi-trailer.
Hellcuppa is a 1987 British supernatural horror film about a mystical coffee cup which summons the Caffobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between caffeinated and decaffeinated.
In Other Words
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Convenants is a supernatural black comedy horror-crime film directed by Guy Ritchie and Renny Harlin.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel (10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, and later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity?
Topic of the Day
Mayonnaise
The Unbearable Lightness of Light Mayonnaise is a 1988 American documentary film, an interpretation of the 1984 novel of the same name by [REDACTED].
Miracle Whip is a 1981 action-cooking film about an archaeologist (Indiana Jones) seeking a legendary jar of miraculous mayonnaise.
The Seventh Mayo is a 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman about disillusioned Swedish chef Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), who vows to evade Death long enough to manufacture and distribute the world's best mayonnaise.