November 27
Better Than News
Blood on the Sorcerer is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and German electronic music band Tangerine Dream.
Replicant Vice is an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.
Three Days of the Sundance Kid is an American Western thriller film starring Robert Redford as a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang and intend to kill him.
The Adventures of Ellen Barkin Across the Eighth Dimension is a television series starring historian and actor Ellen Barkin.
Gnomes: El Mariachis is a documentary film which explores the lives and music of gnomes in Mariachi bands, in Mexico and around the world. Shown here: the contest with Los Piernas Altas (The Tall Legs) scene.
The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.
Turing Completeness Adventure Stories— "Chilling and informative tales of Turing Machines — rule sets which are able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets."
The Prime Directive of Miss Jean Brodie is a British-American science fiction anthropology film about a teacher at Starfleet Academy who strays from the school's curriculum, romanticizing fascist leaders like General Chang and Admiral Cartwright, ultimately leading her to defy the Prime Directive.
The Annihilation of Oz is a 2018 American science fiction musical fantasy horror film starring Margaret Hamilton and Natalie Portman.
Beyond Plausible
Boats Against the Current is a short documentary film about Salty MacTavish.
Night Fondue is a 1975 American neo-noir film about a Los Angeles health inspector (Gene Hackman) who uncovers a series of sinister events while searching for the missing teenage daughter of a former dairy farmer.
"Tweet Talkin' Woman" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.
"Tweeting" is a song about the singer's inability to "forget my interactions with Twitter".
In Other Words
"The Likesters of Triskelion" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Aliens: Rise of Nickelback is a science fiction musical horror film starring Sigourney Weaver, Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger, and Daniel Adair.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Berners Street hoax (27 November 1810) brought traffic to a standstill in parts of London?
Selected Anniversaries
1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.
1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
Topic of the Day
Cocktails
Einstein-Maxwell Formulation Margarita Kit is a brand of high-performance margarita physics kits manufactured and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Compost Cocktails is a brand of cocktail mix made from compost.
An Icy Michigan is a cocktail made from equal measures of Blue Curaçao and Ice-Nine.
Singapore Sling Blade is a 1996 American comedy-action film about an Arkansas bartender (Billy Bob Thornton) who challenges himself to "invent the most foreign cocktail ever seen in these parts."