December 29
Better Than News
Die Hard: 1170 AD is an epic historical action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Thomas Becket.
NOAA is a 2014 post-Biblical drama-science film starring Russell Crowe and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Hollywood Shuffle is a drama buddy film about two aging actors who hope to make one last film together.
"By the Time I Get to Felix" is a song by Jimmy Webb, Glenn Campbell, Pat Sullivan, and Otto Messmer.
"Cawlifornia Girls" is a song by The Hobby Aces.
Beyond Plausible
Asynchronous Fiction is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino about several interweaving dynamics, each of which is far from synchronization.
Game of Stools is a fantasy crime comedy-drama television series directed by Max Barbakow, based on a story by Etan Cohen and George R. R. Martin.
In Other Words
The Blair Shark Project is a 1999 American supernatural marine horror film about three student oceanographers who disappear while shooting a documentary film near Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Leopold Kronecker said "God made the integers, all else is the work of man" (Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk)?
• ... that Hans Bethe once said that theoretical physicist and atomic spy Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history?
• ... that Artist-Engineer and amateur gardener Donald Tasmian unexpectedly discovered diagramaceous soil while attempting to hybridize several varieties of ornamental time crystals?
Topic of the Day
Pink Floyd
Pink Blob is a 1988 rock opera horror film about an acidic, amoeba-like alien organism that crashes down to Earth in a military satellite and devours a British progressive rock band (Pink Floyd) as it grows.
"A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.
Dark Side of the Dune is a Melange-themed concept album by Glossu Rabban and the Don't Let Me Be Misunderstoods.
"Another Trick of the Light" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's alleged lost 1979 rock opera The Light, allegedly written by [REDACTED].
The Pompeii and Circumstance Marches (full title: Pomp and Circumstance Psychedelic Rock Marches) are a series of five (or six) marches for orchestra composed by Pink Floyd in collaboration with Sir Edward Elgar.
"Absolutely Croutons" is a song by the English progressive cooking band Pink Fried from their album Obscured by Foods.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit. This town deserves a high-fidelity first class travelling class of criminal. I think they need a Lear jet — and I'm going to give it to them. (The Dark Knight of the Tweet)