September 25
Better Than News
Cheers Club is a black comedy sitcom television series starring Brad Pitt, Ted Danson, Edward Norton, and Shelley Long.
Cream Soda is a 1988 comedy romance film starring Tom Cruise as a soft drink salesman in search of the ultimate flavor.
The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama film which follows Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a floral truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster florist Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), head of the powerful Floristers Union.
Strainer in a Strained Land is a 1961 science fiction guide to kitchenware by Robert Heinlein.
Six things to not do when sharpening pencils is a public awareness campaign intended to raise awareness of the perils of pencil sharpening.
Mycelia and Myceliation is a 1981 philosophical treatise by sociologist Jean Baudrillard which examines the relationships between reality, symbols, and fungal mycelium, in particular the significations and symbolism of fungal culture media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
"You Make Me Feel Like Busting" is a song by Leo Sayer about Wilhelm Reich and his invention, the cloudbuster.
Third illustration from the Codex Nanobotica.
Beyond Plausible
In Search of Anathem is an American television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy and Neal Stephenson which is devoted to monastic ratiocination and the search for a plurality of universes.
In Other Words
"No prison can hold me, not even the Nacreum!" —The Eel.
The Mystery of Geraldo Rivera's Shaving Kit is a reality television series starring Geraldo Rivera.
Are You Sure
• ... that astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light?
• ... that mathematician and theologian George Salmon was in regular and frequent communication with Arthur Cayley and J. J. Sylvester during the 1850s, and that the three of them together with a small number of other mathematicians (including Charles Hermite) developed a system for dealing with n-dimensional algebra and geometry?
• ... that reality television star Dennis Paulson of Mars said that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer spacecraft "is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later"?
• ... that Article One of the United States Constitution (now known as the he Congressional Apportionment Amendment) is technically still pending before the states?
• ... that Humpty Dumpty At Bat has never been subjected to forensic steganographic analysis?
Topic of the Day
Perfumes
Scentworld is a 1973 American science-fiction perfume film about an aromatic amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to emit strange smells.
Armory (full title: Armory by Lauren Boebert) is a gun violence themed perfume manufactured by Jan 6 Industries under license to the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Knights of the Old Spice Republic is an RPG video game series based Old Spice products and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars by George Lucas and Procter & Gamble.
Indigo Gin is a 1984 novel by Tom Robbins about dueling gin distillers in Seattle, Paris, and New Orleans who pursue a bottle of incomparable gin created by two unlikely but defiant lovers of the past who seek immortality.
Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (LCCBB) is a downloadable, user-reprogrammable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.