• The coolest optical illusion (by way of Behnam, before a zillion other people)
• On the streets of America, funny interviews about the next target of war on terror. (thanks Hamid)
• Symmetry Magazine's visualization of the particles. I particularly like the photon drawing. That said, enjoyed refreshing my memories of relativity and quantum mechanics, thanks to John Fleck's post on Einstein. Interestingly, the quantum physics theory amazes me more than all the unusual quantum computation results. I used to be a physics geek before becoming a computer geek too, sigh.
• Throw Paper!
  

• Watched Night on Earth (1991), a typical Jim Jarmusch film: divided into a series of shorts like Coffee and Cigarettes, all pieces coinciding in time like Mystery Train (1989), soundtrack (partly) by the Tom Waits like the Down by Law (1986), and a comedy starring Roberto Benigni like all of them. I'm still to understand how he could produce a so different movie like Dead Man (1995)! All of them highly recommended. In fact Jarmusch is my favorite director / movie writer, sharing only with Krzysztof Kieslowski.
  
• Also watched In Good Company (2004). Good for dinner-time with friends only.
• In my priority queue to be blogged for a while, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (official site). Didn't like the synopsis, but should really check it out.
  
• Last, but definitely not least, Sex & Philosophy (2005) by distinguished Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Again, not watched yet, but the script was pretty good. Written in form of dialogs, it moves around concepts of what love really means. A guy timing his "happy times". If you ask me, not quite irrelevant to In Praise of Love (2001). Liked this dialog particularly, although it's not quite around the core theme (translation's mine):
  • (to the poet) These guys are your fans, why don't you spend five minutes with them.
  • John, they are fans of my poetry, and killers of my time. My whole life was spared in these 5-minute moments. The minutes are called time, but in reality they are one's life. One's life is short, and one should not be embarrassed to protect one's life.
  Reminds me of Bob Dylan quote: Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

• Had to turn on comment word-verification. Was receiving very sophisticated comment spams :(.
• Repeating Roozbeh's link for archival purposes, and because it's really worth broader attention: Unicode Gotchas by Mark Davis.
• Enjoyed watching videos of TOOOL: The Open Organization Of Lockpickers the other day. If you don't know about the bumping technique, watching one of their videos will drastically increase your awareness about how insecure physical locks are.
  

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