April 1
Better Than News
The Man Who Apriled is a 1956 novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a government propaganda contractor who discovers that the month of April is a vast government hoax.
Reservoir Dogs vs. Predator is an American science fiction crime actiom film directed by Quentin Tarantino and John McTiernan, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harvey Keitel, Carl Weathers, Tim Roth, Jesse Ventura, and Steve Buscemi.
The Shape of Water Bagels is a 2017 American romantic fantasy cooking film about a mute chef at a high-security government bakery who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
The Cistern Kid is a fictional cowboy-hydrologist who champions water storage in Mexico and the Western United States.
Sushi Cage is an underwater sushi restaurant.
The Blair Shark Project is a 1999 American supernatural marine horror film about three student oceanographers who disappear while shooting a documentary film near Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Monarchy of Needs 2049 is a 1982 an epic self-help science fiction comedy buddy film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Rutger Hauer, Harrison Ford, Abraham Maslow, and Louis XV.
Beyond Plausible
Death is not an illusion. It happens in time, where the life is.
In Other Words
"Am Inferno" is an anagram of "Man on Fire" (2004).
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Robin Farquharson wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting?
Selected Anniversaries
1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Germain's work on Fermat's Last Theorem will provide a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. Sidis will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1973: Mathematician Robin Farquharson dies. Farquharson wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2003: Steve Bellovin publishes Request for Comment 5314, subsequently known as the evil bit protocol, a humorous April Fool's Day proposal.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
"The Enemy Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles about the American television series Star Trek.
"The Oscars of Triskelion" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. Plot: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock during the Oscars.
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Star Trek Days, Esperanto Nights is a short documentary film which follows the career of William Shatner from the film Incubus (1966) through the Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (January 5 1968)
