February 7
Better Than News
Fanfare for the Comic Sans is a musical-typographical work by the American composer-typographer Aaron Copland.
Drift is a 1971 American science fiction crime film about John Drift (Richard Roundtree), a Fremen martial arts master who uses desert lore to drive Harkonnen mobsters from Harlem.
The Blair Witch Labyrinth is a psychological fantasy horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Myrick, and Eduardo Sánchez.
Agent Smith, Marriage Counselor is an American science fiction romantic comedy television series about a computer programmer (Keanu Reeves) who helps an artificial intelligence (Hugo Weaving) succeed as a marriage counselor.
Beyond Plausible
Tamagotchi's Got a Hungry Heart is a lost song by Bruce Springsteen.
American Gangbird is a 2007 American ornithology buddy crime film about a thieving bird (Russell Crowe) who smuggles bright shiny objects, and an Audubon Society detective (Denzel Washington).
Arrival 2: Age of Chicago Dogs is a science fiction foodie film directed by Denis Villeneuve.
In Other Words
Ionic Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, famed for its chemical bonding, both the bonding of oppositely charged ions, and the bonding of two atoms with sharply different electronegativities.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote his 1940 essay "A Mathematician's Apology", justifying his life's work in mathematics, because he felt the approach of old age and the decline of his mathematical creativity and skills, and that by devoting time to writing the Apology, Hardy was admitting that his own time as a creative mathematician was finished?
• ... that the science fiction comedy television series Gilligan's Matrix is loosely based on both Gilligan's Island and The Matrix?
Topic of the Day
Dune
Dune Girls is a 1997 British musical drama film about a Bene Gesserit girl group who go on tour across Arrakis.
June is a novel by Frank Herbert 1.1 (as told to OrbGazer).
Wali and Chaumas is an animated action-comedy film starring Wallace and Gromit.
"Mr. Sandworm" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and Frank Herbert.
Escape From Salusa Secundus is a science fiction dystopian action drama film directed by John Carpenter and Denis Villeneuve.
