September 13
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Better Than News
The Old Couple is an American sitcom television series starring Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.
Little Man It is a 1991 drama horror film about Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to make adults see the evil clown which follows them everywhere.
Barbie: Way of the Samurai is a fantasy adventure crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch and Greta Gerwig, and starring Margot Robbie and Forest Whitaker.
Anne Through the Green Gables Glass is a 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery and Lewis Carroll about the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is sent by mistake through the looking-glass to an alternative world (the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada).
The Bed Zone is a 1983 American erotic science-fiction film about schoolteacher (Christopher Walken) who awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers which cause him to see visions of past and future sexual encounters.
Psicorps is a 1960 American science fiction horror film about an encounter between an on-the-run embezzler (Vivien Leigh) and a shy ESP researcher (Anthony Perkins).
Defending Your Life: A New Hope is a 1977 American epic space allegory film about a man who finds himself on trial a long time ago in an afterlife far, far away.
The Sixxth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural psychological rock music video about a young rock star (Nikki Sixx) claims he can see and talk to dead musicians.
Beyond Plausible
Tenet 2: Rise of the Algorithm is a science fiction social media thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan.
Formerly Wild Kingdom, better known as Mutual of Omaha's Formerly Wild Kingdom, is an American documentary television program that features formerly interesting wildlife and nature, now dull and boring or simply unavailable due to overhunting, overfishing, urban sprawl, desertification, and coastal land loss in the age of rising oceans.
Memes is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Big Mac.
"I See Right Through You" is a lost song by the British rock band the Beatles about X-ray specs.
In Other Words
F5 is an artificial beverage derived from illegal mathematical functions.
Zinc nonperception syndrome (commonly known as transparent zinc disease) is a quantum psychoperceptual condition during which a sentient organic intelligence no longer perceives zinc: elemental zinc becomes invisible, soundless, intangible, and otherwise imperceptible.
Sic Semper Entropis is an unofficial slogan of the Thermodynamics Corps, an active duty unit within the Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization.
Are You Sure
... that Centipede Kane is a quasi-biographical horror film examining the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere plastic surgery barons, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives?
Selected Anniversaries
1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
Topic of the Day
Beauty
One Million Years Before Gilda is an adventure fantasy film about a paleolithic warrior (Rachel Welch) who finds a magic mirror which transforms her into Gilda (Rita Hayworth), a modern socialite.
Sleeping Beauty: Resurrection is a 1997 science fiction horror romance film about a space-traveling princess (Sigourney Weaver) who is awakened from hyber-sleep by a deadly alien prince.