March 17
Better Than News
Brief Encounters of the Third Kind is a British-American science fiction film about two strangers who have an affair during a UFO event.
Leprechaun: Emerald City is an American musical fantasy horror film about a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his yellow brick road.
Close Encounters of the Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror science fiction film about a vengeful alien leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his spaceship.
The Silence of My Lamb Dinner with Andre is an American psychological drama film directed by Louis Malle and Jonathan Demme, and starring André Gregory, Jodie Foster, Wallace Shawn, and Anthony Hopkins.
Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
If God Loves Me, Why Can't We See the Far Side of the Moon? is a book of devotional prayers for spiritually troubled astronomers.
CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
Beyond Plausible
"The Irishman Within" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Columbo: The Next Generation is an American science crime drama television series starring William Shatner as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, and Peter Falk as a time-traveling homicide detective from the future.
Connect Foreplay is a two-player erotic connection rack game, in which the players choose a color and then take turns performing intimate acts while dropping colored tokens into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid.
In Other Words
McGuffin is an American political crime drama television series starring G. Gordon Liddy.
"To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)
Cocaine Leprechaun is a 1993 American substance abuse horror fiction film about a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his cocaine.
Are You Sure
- ... that mathematician and computer scientist John Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax?
Selected Anniversaries
1782: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli dies. Bernoulli is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1853: Physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler dies. Doppler proposed the principle (now known as the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer. He used this concept to explain the color of binary stars.
2007: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus dies. Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax.
Topic of the Day
Defibrillators
The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.
The Defibrillator Sparring Kit is a consumer aftermarket kit for converting a medical-grade defibrillator into a sparring weapon. Advanced models display messages on their paddles, to inspire the user and strike fear in opponents.
