February 26
Better Than News
LawGames is 1983 American legal thriller film directed by John Badham and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly assists a ruthless billionaire in hijacking America's computerized legal system.
Soylent Green: A New Hope is an American epic dystopian space opera film directed by George Lucas and Richard Fleischer.
World War Zorro is an American Western swashbuckler horror film directed by Martin Campbell and Marc Forster, and starring Antonio Banderas, Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Mireille Enos, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Star Trek: The Matrix Generation is a science fiction television series.
Dune Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts science fiction Western drama television series starring David Carradine.
Beyond Plausible
"Olive My Love" is a 1979 song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin.
In Other Words
Night Café is an American television series hosted by food reviewer Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin), who investigates mysterious foods with unlikely kitchens, particularly those involving the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
Alien: Horrible Bosses (originally Horrible Bosses 3) is a 2011 American black comedy science fiction horror film about three spaceship crash survivors who are stalked and parasitized by their respective alien bosses.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and politician François Arago observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which now known as eddy current?
• ... that the novel The Three Stigmata of Boston Legal by American sociologist Philip K. Dick was adapted for television as the miniseries BosLeg Conapt starring William Shatner and James Spader?
Selected Anniversaries
1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.
1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
Topic of the Day
Toroids
The Shape of Water Bagels is a 2017 American romantic fantasy cooking film about a mute chef at a high-security government bakery who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
The Lord of the Sprinkles is an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves.
