March 6
Better Than News
To Live and Die in Platoon is an American neo-noir war-crime thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone and William Friedkin, and starring Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, William Petersen, Charlie Sheen, John Pankow, and Darlanne Fluegel.
Martian Grime-Tip is an analysis of interplanetary pollution abatement projects by American sociologist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man on the High Trash-Hill.
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Zero Dune Thirty is a science fiction historical drama thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Denis Villeneuve, starring Jessica Chastain, Rebecca Fergusson, Jason Clarke, and Timothée Chalamet.
Beyond Plausible
American Graffiti 2049 American coming-of-age science fiction comedy-drama film
Guild Navigator is a 2000 epic historical science fiction film about a Spacing Guild pilot (Russell Crowe) who is betrayed when Princess Irulan, the ambitious daughter of the Padishah Emperor, murders her father and seizes the throne.
"If I Were A Harkonnen" is a song by Tim Hardin and Frank Herbert.
John Barleycorn Must Weigh is the fourth studio album by English consulting weights and measures firm and rock band Traffic.
Carlin's Way is a 1993 drama biographical film about radio DJ and undercover police comedian George Carlin.
In Other Words
If Only is an alleged lost James Bond film, supposedly released in 2007.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
Selected Anniversaries
1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
Topic of the Day
Personal hygiene
Clean-shaven two-headed men. You ever think about that?
Knights of the Old Spice Republic is an RPG video game series based Old Spice products and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars by George Lucas and Procter & Gamble.
The Mystery of Geraldo Rivera's Shaving Kit is a reality television series starring Geraldo Rivera.
Down to the Quick is an erotic lunchbox fetish novel for young adults in the Salty MacTavish After-Lunch Mystery series.
Forbidden Manicure is a beauty school and safe house for criminal nail technicians on the run.
Billy Madison 2: America is Best is a 2021 political comedy film starring Adam Sandler as Donald Trump.