September 13

From Gnomon Chronicles
Self portrait (13 September 2023).

Better Than News

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

  • 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).

    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.

    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.

    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

  • 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.

    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.

In Other Words

  • Sic Semper Entropis is an unofficial slogan of the Thermodynamics Corps, an active duty unit within the Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization.

    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 the biographical documentary film Star Trek Days, Esperanto Nights: The Many Worlds of William Shatner was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto?

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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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