November 27
Better Than News
The Prime Directive of Miss Jean Brodie is a British-American science fiction anthropology film about a teacher at Starfleet Academy who strays from the school's curriculum, romanticizing fascist leaders like General Chang and Admiral Cartwright, ultimately leading her to defy the Prime Directive.
Turing Completeness Adventure Stories— "Chilling and informative tales of Turing Machines — rule sets which are able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets."
Blood on the Sorcerer is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and German electronic music band Tangerine Dream.
Jimi Hendrix, Vampire Hunter is a supernatural musical reality television series hosted by Jimi Hendrix.
Beyond Plausible
"Tweet Talkin' Woman" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.
"Tweeting" is a song about the singer's inability to "forget my interactions with Twitter".
In Other Words
"The Likesters of Triskelion" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Gnomes: El Mariachis is a documentary film which explores the lives and music of gnomes in Mariachi bands, in Mexico and around the world. Shown here: the contest with Los Piernas Altas (The Tall Legs) scene.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Berners Street hoax (27 November 1810) brought traffic to a standstill in parts of London?
Selected Anniversaries
1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.
1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
Topic of the Day
Cocktails
Einstein-Maxwell Formulation Margarita Kit is a brand of high-performance margarita physics kits manufactured and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Compost Cocktails is a brand of cocktail mix made from compost.
An Icy Michigan is a cocktail made from equal measures of Blue Curaçao and Ice-Nine.
Singapore Sling Blade is a 1996 American comedy-action film about an Arkansas bartender (Billy Bob Thornton) who challenges himself to "invent the most foreign cocktail ever seen in these parts."
