June 5
Better Than News
The King of Roseland is a neo-noir crime anthology film directed by Abel Ferrara and James Ivory, starring Christopher Walken, Teresa Wright, Laurence Fishburne, Geraldine Chaplin, David Caruso, Lou Jacobi, and Wesley Snipes.
Boxcar Confidential is a romantic crime travel film starring Kim Basinger and Russell Crowe.
Water for Elephant Men is an American drama film starring Reese Witherspoon and John Hurt.
Midnight Anaconda is an American romantic herpetology film directed by John Schlesinger and Luis Llosa, and starring Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Dustin Hoffman, and Ice Cube.
Pee-Wee's Big Launch is a 1985 American military training film directed by Tim Burton which describes the Gold Code — the launch code for nuclear weapons provided to the President of the United States.
Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Beyond Plausible
The Perrin Trap is a British-American comedy film starring Hayley Mills and Leonard Rossiter.
In Other Words
RICO Krispies is a breakfast cereal is that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
Are You Sure
... that physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Selected Anniversaries
1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Topic of the Day
I Write the Tweets is a song by Barry Manilow 1.1.
"Buckets of Tweets" is a song by Bob Dylan 1.1.
"Unfollow You Unfollow Me" is a [REDACTED] song written and recorded by English rock band [REDACTED].