September 27
Better Than News
The Man in the High-Rise Castle is an alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard.
The Heliopausal Nun is an American sitcom about Sister Bertrille, an astrophysicist nun who can travel through outer space when the solar wind catches her cornette.
Lawrence of Zhivago is an epic biographical adventure romance film directed by David Lean, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Peter O'Toole.
The Magnificent Amber Bugs is a 1942 American period drama about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by insects trapped in amber.
Hard Cheese at Sea is an epic historical novel by Salty MacTavish based on his life at sea.
"Me and the universe, we got an understanding" is line from the film The Blueshift Brothers.
"Prevent the spread of metacontinual hyperamericas" is a campaign slogan of the Political Prophylaxis Agency (PPA) is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which monitors and analyzes political conditions within the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
!["We choose to go to the Moon again" is a speech delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy about the effort to reach the Moon again to a large crowd gathered at Corn Stadium in Houston, [REDACTED], on September 12, 1962. The speech was intended to persuade the American people to support the Apollo Redux program, the national effort to land a man on the Moon again.](/w/images/thumb/4/4b/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon_again.jpg/120px-We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon_again.jpg)
"We choose to go to the Moon again" is a speech delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy about the effort to reach the Moon again to a large crowd gathered at Corn Stadium in Houston, [REDACTED], on September 12, 1962. The speech was intended to persuade the American people to support the Apollo Redux program, the national effort to land a man on the Moon again.
Wishing You Were Pink is the ninth studio album by the psychedelic horn-rock band Chicago Floyd. It features their hit song "Does Anybody Really Shine On You Crazy Diamond?"
Apollo Threesome is a 1995 American revisionist space-sploitation docudrama film which dramatizes the notorious 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission.
Beyond Plausible
Should I Go Back to the Axiom of Choice? is an American set theory drama film starring Charles Bukowski and Ernst Zermelo.
Rat I/O is a 2022 American spy thriller television series starring an ensemble cast of neurosurgically enhanced rats.
Monsters of the Human Head is a 2022 psychological thriller documentary about the joys and horrors of recreational psychosurgery.
In Other Words
The Unidentified Man is a science fiction crime noir film starring Glenn Ford and Barbara Rush.
"Get It Bare" is an anagram of "Tiger Beat".
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and academic Hans Hahn was interested in philosophy, and was part of a discussion group concerning Ernst Mach's positivism with Otto Neurath and Phillip Frank prior to the First World War; and that in 1922, Hahd helped arrange Moritz Schlick's entry into the group, which led to the founding of the Vienna Circle, the group that was at the center of logical positivist thought in the 1920s; and that Hahn's most famous student was Kurt Gödel?
Topic of the Day
William Gibson
Johnny SPQR is a 1995 cyberpunk history film about a Roman Consul (Keanu Reeves) with a cybernetic brain implant designed to win the Punic Wars. Co-starring Henry Rollins as Cato the Censor.
Nuraghemancer is a historical novel by architect William Gibson about the design and construction of the cyber-Nuraghe structures of Sardinia, and their origin in the Zaibatsu Wars.
Johnny Mnemonic 4: The Voyage Home is an American science fiction nature adventure film about an intelligent dolphin (William Gibson) who must rely upon a criminal hacker (Keanu Reeves) and a lost time-traveler (Leonard Nimoy).