May 25
Better Than News
![Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.](/w/images/thumb/c/c3/Close_Encounters_of_the_Spud_Kind.jpg/120px-Close_Encounters_of_the_Spud_Kind.jpg)
Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.
Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.
Clash of the Lawyers is an epic fantasy legal drama television series.
Plan 9 from Dark City is a science fiction horror film written and directed by Ed Wood and Alex Proyas.
Beyond Plausible
"Scale Any Crisis Tenet" is an anagram of "Latency is resistance".
In Other Words
"Something Wicked In This Way She Moves" is a song by George Harrison and Ray Bradbury.
Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.
Are You Sure
• ... that George Lucas worked closely with Frank Herbert on the 1977 American epic science fiction film Spice Wars?
Selected Anniversaries
986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer Gemma Frisius dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
Topic of the Day
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.
Soylent Greene is an American conspiracy horror documentary film about Marjorie Taylor Greene and gun overpopulation.
