March 4
Better Than News
Brewster McCloud & Mrs. Miller is an American revisionist Western black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring Bud Cort, Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, and Sally Kellerman.
Networktown is an American neo-noir thriller drama film about a ruthless entrepreneur (Faye Dunaway) who uses her computer network company to track down "the man with the broken nose".
The Silence of Laura Mars is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.
William Shatner Overture is the overture to the opera William Shatner, whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Shatner premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's Star Trek themed operas.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
Do Empires Dream of Electric Slaves? (original title: The Empire Never Ended) is a 1968 collection of essays about the history of empires by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Beyond Plausible
"The Lady Don't Bind" is a song by the Talking Heads about a quantum state of a particle subject to a potential such that the particle has a tendency to not remain localized in one or more regions of space.
Minty Fresh Potato Chips is a variety of potato chips distributed by Gnomon Chronicles Industries.
In Other Words
Soylent Yellow is a 1973 American agricultural dystopian thriller film about a murder investigation involving the extinction of Cavendish bananas.
It's a fine line between satire and fact. The finer the better.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman made important contributions to theoretical cosmology following Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity?
• ... that mathematician Hing Tong made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem?
• ... that Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients?
Selected Anniversaries
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
Topic of the Day
Queen
"Some Blood Moon to Love" is a song by Queen 1.1.
America's Theme Song is "We Are the Champions" by Queen.
Queerosmith is a theoretical rock band comprising Queen and Aerosmith.
