April 6
Better Than News
Tacos Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological foodie film directed by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Gordon Ramsay.
The Turing Completeness of Tutankhamun is a made-for-television movie which explores the question: Was the Pharaoh Tutankhamun Turing complete? And if so, can we make valid computations today based on Tutankhamun's grave goods?
The Twilight Gnome is an American science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling which features stories about gnomes.
Irish Spring Fresca is a seasonally available variety of the soft drink Fresca which contains up to 2% Irish Spring soap.
Jules Vernacular: His Life and Grammar is a 2022 revisionist biography of famed attorney Jules Vernacular.
The Lord is my Popcorn, I shall not want.
Beyond Plausible
Two Funerals in Berlin is a 2008 thriller buddy film about an aging spy (Michael Caine) who must help his younger self solve a decades-old mystery.
In Other Words
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals?
• ... that computer scientist Anita Borg (17 January 1949 – 6 April 2003) founded the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology?
• ... that comic book artist Gil Kane (6 April 1926 – 31 January 2000) co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics?
• ... that painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) is widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, and that his vast body of work include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings?
• ... that Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjuncts to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens?
Selected Anniversaries
1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.
Topic of the Day
Apparel
Invasion of the Birkenstockers is a 1978 horror-fashion film about the "Birkenstock Scare" of the early 1970's starring Leonard Nimoy and Veronica Cartwright.
"Pale Blue Tights" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The episodes features a cameo appearance by American rock band the Velvet Underground.
Prêt-à-Phaser (US: Where No Fashion Has Gone Before) is an action-apparel science fiction film written and directed by Robert Altman 1.1 for the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.
