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Latest revision as of 09:14, 1 April 2025
Better Than News
Indiana Jones and the Valley of the Dolls is a 1966 action-adventure novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. It was adapted for film by George Lucas in 1981.
The Last Shampoo is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Julie Christie, Otis Young, Goldie Hawn, and Randy Quaid.
Cream Soda is a 1988 comedy romance film starring Tom Cruise as a soft drink salesman in search of the ultimate flavor.
Avatar is Born is an American musical romantic science fiction drama film about a young alien singer (Barbara Streisand) who meets and falls in love with a human military occupation officer (Kris Kristofferson), only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
Waterworld 2: The Way of Franchise is a 2023 science fiction adventure film about an actor (Kevin Costner) and a film director (James Cameron) who attempt to redeem themselves at sea.
"You Make Me Feel Like Busting" is a song by Leo Sayer about Wilhelm Reich and his invention, the cloudbuster.
Beyond Plausible
At the Mountains of Batness is a superhero supernatural action-horror film starring Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy.
In Other Words
Bollard ball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, compete with the objective of using the bollard in an appropriate manner, for example locking a bicycle or mooring a ship.
Are You Sure
• ... that in April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk; that Soviet officials attributed the epidemic to consumption of contaminated meat, but that the actual cause appears to be the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at a military facility?
• ... that alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouted a new battle cry — "Be Gay Do Crime!" — at the Battle of Hastings?
• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
Selected Anniversaries
1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Grimaldi, along with Riccioli, will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. Tschichold will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1915: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes born. Hughes will be one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. Spencer-Brown will write the unorthodox and influential Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.
Topic of the Day
Fashion
What sort of man wears Esquire Socks? is a public awareness campaign which raises awareness of Esquire Socks and unwritten sumptuary laws.
"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" is a philosophical-hygienic assertion by Socrates.
"If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you" is an assertion by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Greaves of Defending Against Cthulhu are a pair of transdimensional corporations which conceal the wearer from the malefic supernatural entity Cthulhu.
2001: A 70's Odyssey is a short documentary film about the unofficial privacy, health, and hygiene issues faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when a rift in the space-time continuum drastically raises dress hemlines in the workplace.
The Man with the Golden Musket (1974): James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmicraises hemlines to the waist.
Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjunct to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens. Disclaimer: Sea-Monkeys not included. For external use only. Actual Sea-Monkey regalia may differ from crowns shown.
