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Archive for February, 2005

Quantum Information Visiting Fellowships at the University of Queensland on February 28, 2005
New group website on February 27, 2005
When is a cow not spherical: public discourse and the dangers of implicit models on February 19, 2005
Geometry and quantum circuits on February 13, 2005
Optimizing travel 2.0 on February 12, 2005
Admin again on February 2, 2005
Ouch! on February 2, 2005

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- Internet of Dreams - o<
  Good interview with an online troll: "I am lucky to have not had people who liked me for who I was when I was truly awful" […]
- Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel | Quiet Babylon
  On the problems caused when you create tshirts using a data mining algorithm. As Kevin Slavin has noted, this is how our culture is increasingly being created. […]
- Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com
  An extremely insightful talk about the way our society thinks about not-for-profit organizations. He highlights many of the systematic ways we hobble the not-for-profit sector. […]
- Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance - Edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger
  Linked mostly for the title, which is the useful term "agnotology" - the study of ignorance. […]
- How do I create a book index?
  Fun discussion of the minutiae of creating a book index. […]
Documentaries
- Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary
  A brief skim suggests that this is a very good basic guide to making documentaries. […]
- The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner - Werner Herzog
  Documentary of Wolfgang Steiner, one of the world's top ski-jumpers in the 1970s. The spine of the documentary is a sequence of extraordinary shots of Steiner's jumps, taken with a pair of high-speed cameras. […]
- Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
  A reminder of the diversity of life: the passion and learning and insight people pour into calligraphy, font design, and design more generally. […]
- Indie Game: The Movie (2012) - IMDb
  Striking for the level of emotional commitment and uncertainty (and turmoil) on the part of the creators! […]
- Step Into Liquid (2003)
  Remarkable survey of the cutting edge of surfing. We see the origins of tow-rope surfing (where surfers are pulled by jet skis into waves that are too big to paddle out to), the use of hydrofoil designs that put the board a foot or two _above_ the wave, and even the use of weather stations to monitor conditions out in mid-ocean, looking for giant waves. […]
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