June 4
Better Than News
Baby Blue Airwolf is a 1976 American action-adventure film about a failed Marine helicopter pilot who deceives the staff of a small Colorado airport into treating him as a hero.
"Aristotle Was a Bullfrog" is a song written by Hoyt Axton and made famous by the band Three Dog Night.
"Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?" is a question which if you answer Yes you are probably a very confused unintentional time traveler under the influence of a fictional yet illegal drug such as Clandestiphrine.
Awkward Sparkles is an emotionally troubled breakfast cereal which suffers from anxiety attacks.
Win Jeff Epstein's Money is an American television horror game show in which contestants attempt to exorcise the restless ghost of alleged suicide Jeffrey Epstein for cash.
Beyond Plausible
When Godzilla Met Kong... is an action-comedy romantic monster film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.
You wanna know how to get Connery? They hire Charlotte Rampling, you fly around in a giant stone head. They put Catherine Zeta-Jones in front of a camera, you pretend to fall in love with her. That's the Connery way! (The Connery Way)
In Other Words
Drapes and Carpet is a historical drama film about Jonathan Drapes and Elias Carpet, two celebrity lawyers who become laughingstocks of the Federation of Planets after a freak time-travel accident.
Are You Sure
Selected Anniversaries
1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
1739: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann born. Beckmann will coin the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and be the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.
1769: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
Topic of the Day
Climate Change
"Bridge Under Troubled Water" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel 1.1 about global climate change and sea level rise.
"Miami Refugees" is an American civil unrest reality television series starring police sociologists Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, two former Metro-Dade Police Department detectives who now live in the Camps north of the Miami Sea.
"Florida. It's Fucked." is a public awareness campaign which mocks people who deny ongoing sea level rise and coastal flooding.
Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.
"Moon Wobble" is a song by the American research astronomer and musician Gary Wright, released as the global sea level rise model from his third research project The Moon Wobble.
"OK. Which one of you jokers ordered the Halloween weather for Memorial Day weekend" — Industrial Humans. That's Just Fuckin' Great™
"Tallahassee Seaside Blues" is a song about sea levels and property values.