March 4

Blue Green Blossom.

Better Than News

Do Empires Dream of Electric Slaves? (original title: The Empire Never Ended) is a 1968 collection of essays about the history of empires by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Soylent Yellow is a 1973 American agricultural dystopian thriller film about a murder investigation involving the extinction of Cavendish bananas.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
Ghost Phone is short documentary film about a man who sees the ghosts of dead cellphones.
Networktown is an American neo-noir thriller drama film about a ruthless entrepreneur (Faye Dunaway) who uses her computer network company to track down "the man with the broken nose".
The Silence of Laura Mars is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.
Minty Fresh Potato Chips is a variety of potato chips distributed by Gnomon Chronicles Industries.
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
2001: A Djinn Chair Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction furniture design film about a mysterious black monolith which reveals exotic pink chairs from beyond time and space.
Terminator vs. Lovejoy is a 1984 American science fiction comedy-religion film about a time-traveling robot (Arnold Schwarzenneger) who befriends a Presbylutheran Minister (Timothy Lovejoy Jr.).

Beyond Plausible

"The Lady Don't Bind" is a song by the Talking Heads about a quantum state of a particle subject to a potential such that the particle has a tendency to not remain localized in one or more regions of space.
William Shatner Overture is the overture to the opera William Shatner, whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Shatner premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's Star Trek themed operas.
Hummeresque is a 1920 American silent drama film about a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General.
Twenty Must-Wash Books is a 2023 television series about book hygiene techniques for the amateur book restorer.
Severed is a 1995 American neo-noir psychological horror film about a troubled police detective (Brad Pitt) who find his own severed head in a cardboard box.

In Other Words

The Last Temptation of Gary Seven is a 1988 religious science fiction epic drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese.
It's a fine line between satire and fact. The finer the better.

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman made important contributions to theoretical cosmology following Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity?

• ... that mathematician Hing Tong made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem?

• ... that Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients?

Selected Anniversaries

1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.