January 26
Better Than News
Saturday Pulp Fever is an American dance drama film directed by John Badham and Quentin Tarantino, and starring John Travolta, Karen Gorney, and Uma Thurman.
Touch of Soylent is an American dystopian noir eco-thriller film directed by Orson Welles and Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Edward G. Robinson.
We're No Goodfellas is a 1989 American biographical crime drama film about a disillusioned crime boss (Robert De Niro) and an idealistic young Catholic priest (Sean Penn) who trade places.
Demolition Manfred Mann were an English-American rock band, featuring keyboardist Manfred Mann and actors Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone.
Talking Condoms is a brand of novelty condoms. When the foil packet is opened, it plays a pre-recorded message.
Beyond Plausible
1984: Publication of Nuraghemancer, a historical novel by William Gibson 1.1 about the architecture of the cyber-Nuraghe structures of Sardinia, and their origin in the Zaibatsu Wars.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician János Bolyai was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry, which helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world?
• ... that engineer and inventor John Logie Baird, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrated the first working television system on this day in 1926, and that Baird also invented the first purely electronic color television picture tube?
• ... that Nuraghemancer is a historical novel by William Gibson 1.1 about the architecture of the cyber-Nuraghe structures of Sardinia, and their origin in the Zaibatsu Wars?
• ... that mathematician Richard Courant believed that the existence of a physical solution does not obviate mathematical proof, and that he wrote "Empirical evidence can never establish mathematical existence — nor can the mathematician's demand for existence be dismissed by the physicist as useless rigor. Only a mathematical existence proof can ensure that the mathematical description of a physical phenomenon is meaningful."?
• ... that the Flying Diner (also known as the Flying Lunch Car) is the only diner adapted for flight, and that it serves short-order breakfast and lunch in flight?
Topic of the Day
Office supplies
The Dark Office Space is a 2008 thriller-comedy film about a deranged office worker (Stephen Root) who threatens to burn down Gotham City.
Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic). Now offering "It's Nearly K–Pg Boundary Time!" rush delivery within a half-million years — Guaranteed.
Altered Carbon Paper is an American cyberpunk television series about a former soldier turned investigator (Joel Kinnaman) who is embedded in carbon paper in order to solve a murder.
Mars Tacks! is a 1996 American comic science fiction film directed by Tim Burton based on red thumb tacks.
