Enter the Void sports some wild opening credits. You can watch it here, but I’d vote on clicking through for the HD version:

I suspect all this points to us not really being here, but scientists have recently observed quantum effects with the naked eye.

Amazing play by pitcher Mark Buehrle. Definitely worth sitting through the commercial MLB sticks you with at the beginning. (via kottke)

Micmacs, the new movie from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, City of Lost Children) has a trailer.

Ji-woon Kim, of creepy A Tale of Two Sisters fame, does Sergio Leone? Sign me up, The Good, The Bad, The Weird definitely gets a spot in the queue.

Sorry, can’t help myself, Strogatz again, this time on getting to pi via infinity (breaking into calculus now).

Great magic act by Lu Chen. Don’t let the language barrier stop you, and definitely hang in there for the final trick. I think I have guesses for most of the coin tricks, but I have no idea how he did that last feat. If you’re curious, it looks like the secret has been revealed, but I haven’t watched it yet. I’m going to enjoy the mystery for awhile longer, at least.

I had to post this today rather than yesterday so you wouldn’t think I was pulling your leg. The Expendables cast—most testosterone-laden ever?—includes Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Danny Trejo (order is from IMDb, so maybe that reflects screen time?). Really! I offer the trailer as proof:

Great comic: The Science News Cycle. (thx avital)

I have to say so far I really don’t care for Thunderbird 3’s “improved” search. It fails to find messages I know are there, reindexing doesn’t fix it, and the indexing is slow and takes up a ton of disk space. Thankfully, the Expression Search plugin is great so far.

(And I do like TB3 though. I’m not ready to totally live my life in the cloud yet, and am grateful for a generally excellent, free, open desktop client. And I bet they’ll get the search right eventually, but at the moment it feels like a step backward.)

The economic realities suck, of course, but this article on trucker hobbies makes me happy.

I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3, and probably accidentally marked a good 50 messages as junk because that’s what the “J” key does in TB3. But I’m so used to J/K being used for “Next/Previous” in Google Reader that I couldn’t help myself. The keyconfig extension fixes it, in case anybody else out there is having the same trouble.