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Department of really bad jokes on July 29, 2005
Cosmic Variance on July 29, 2005
Complete notes on fermions and the Jordan-Wigner transform on July 29, 2005
Ten semi-grand challenges for quantum computing theory on July 21, 2005
Fermions and the Jordan-Wigner transform VI: the Jordan-Wigner post on July 8, 2005
More google goodness on July 1, 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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