Reed HedgesShared links, photos, and occasional thoughts:From Online Alchemy: The Uncanny Valley (yeah you should know this already)Saturday, 15 November 2008 From FlowingData: Minority Report Physical Interface in Real Life - Oblong g-speakMonday, 17 November 2008 I Can Hold a Rattle All By Myself!Friday, 14 November 2008 Now I Know How to Really Play with the Mobile!Friday, 14 November 2008 Playing with a Bear and CooingFriday, 14 November 2008 Watching the MobileFriday, 14 November 2008 No, silly, that's a fake apple!Friday, 14 November 2008 Dreaming About LunchFriday, 14 November 2008 WigglyFriday, 14 November 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a video:
4 weeks old. That tinkling sound you hear is the green and purple mobile. Trying to Wake UpFriday, 14 November 2008 Sliding...Thursday, 13 November 2008 Ah, that's much more comfortable.Thursday, 13 November 2008 The Biggest Pumpkin in the PatchThursday, 13 November 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
3.5 months old. Don't be fooled, he can't sit up yet. He is very carefully propped up. Shortly after this, he started sliding. Quiet Time in the Cozy NookThursday, 13 November 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
3.5 months old. We moved the small sofa next to the woodstove for winter-time coziness. With Great-Grandpa IlyaThursday, 13 November 2008 Four GenerationsThursday, 13 November 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
3 months + 1 week old. Why am I so much paler than the rest of my family? With Great-Grandpa and MommyThursday, 13 November 2008 Zephan's First HalloweenThursday, 13 November 2008 First Snowy WalkThursday, 13 November 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
3 months old. You can see the snowflakes between his feet if you look very hard. Whee!Thursday, 13 November 2008 The Silicon Lining - Forbes.comTuesday, 11 November 2008 VCs are funding companies with the goal of acquisition, not IPO.
(Sot sure what the "silver lining" is that the title implies...) From information aesthetics: Japanese Infographic Video: Ensuring the Future of FoodTuesday, 11 November 2008 From Wondermark: #460; In which Free Soup is scoredTuesday, 11 November 2008 Change.govFriday, 7 November 2008 Hey check this out! Maybe they are transitioning they citizen-participation-heavy website over to the new administration! Lets hope that <a href="http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision">this part of the site</a> in particular grows and develops into a real process of communication. .Thursday, 6 November 2008 http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/obamafistthump.jpg Marketplace: Obama can't change Washington aloneThursday, 6 November 2008 On the NPR show Marketplace last night, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich">Robert Reich</a> (former Labor Secretary under Clinton) had a wonderful and inspiring idea: If Obama can transform his campaign support network into a people's policy/lobbying network, it could displace the industrial/corporate lobbyists in Washington. Read or listen to his commentary here: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/05/reich/ .
Is it possible? Would the Obama transition or administration leaders be interested in supporting anything like this? Or perhaps MoveOn or someone needs to jump on this now and get it started while we are still fired up about the new administration? Dreams and religion - Kelly Bulkeley - The Boston GlobeTuesday, 4 November 2008 Our government's approach to housing has grown nonsensical: encourage borrowing to keep homes expensive. It's time to rebuild. - The Boston GlobeTuesday, 4 November 2008 "Keeping house prices up has an obvious appeal to home-owning voters... But the notion that the government should try to prop up housing prices with more mortgage subsidies is a mistake..." Worried lookMonday, 27 October 2008 3 months old already!Monday, 27 October 2008 Monster hatMonday, 27 October 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
12 weeks old. H. side of the familySunday, 26 October 2008 Z. side of the familySunday, 26 October 2008 Tiny baby, smiley DaddySunday, 26 October 2008 With Uncle MichaelSunday, 26 October 2008 With Aunt (Step-Grandma??) EugeniaSunday, 26 October 2008 Little wormSunday, 26 October 2008 With Grandpa EugeneSunday, 26 October 2008 Z and A at brunchSunday, 26 October 2008 Alya with angry ZephanThursday, 23 October 2008 AnnaThursday, 23 October 2008 Alya with blurry ZephanThursday, 23 October 2008 Anna with ZephanThursday, 23 October 2008 Peppers?Thursday, 23 October 2008 FoodThursday, 23 October 2008 Zephan with AnnaThursday, 23 October 2008 Frittatas and potatoesThursday, 23 October 2008 Food in the ovenThursday, 23 October 2008 Bode, looking ... strange. What is going on with his shirt?Thursday, 23 October 2008 PeopleThursday, 23 October 2008 PumpkinsThursday, 23 October 2008 FlowerThursday, 23 October 2008 Egg yolks for the wafflesThursday, 23 October 2008 What is this flower?Thursday, 23 October 2008 FlowerThursday, 23 October 2008 ApplesThursday, 23 October 2008 Breakfast!Thursday, 23 October 2008 Completed frittatasThursday, 23 October 2008 Tomatoes and stuffThursday, 23 October 2008 Goofy Mood 3Wednesday, 22 October 2008 Goofy Mood 2Wednesday, 22 October 2008 Goofy Mood 1Wednesday, 22 October 2008 The Truth About ACORN • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality ControlTuesday, 21 October 2008 Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a GripTuesday, 14 October 2008 Not only is this a pretty good simplified explanation and call to action regarding global warming and sustainability, but it's some really cool animation too. Amazing article about right whales from National GeographicSaturday, 11 October 2008 This is a great article about right whales (the Atlantic population is endangered). Includes some amazing photographs and experiences of the author. Why we're losing in Afghanistan | SalonFriday, 10 October 2008 How the bailout scheme is like a hedge fund. - By Daniel Gross - Slate ...Sunday, 5 October 2008 Riding Out the Credit Crisis - Boing BoingWednesday, 1 October 2008 More of Douglas Rushkoff's theories on what caused the credit crisis. A followup by him is here: http://rushkoff.com/2008/09/30/no-money-down/ Matt Taibbi rants about Sarah PalinWednesday, 1 October 2008 Generally insightful on the state of citizenship and politics in the US. Has it ever been much different? Well we could try. Wade Davis on endangered cultures | Video on TED.comMonday, 29 September 2008 The Garden of Eatin': A Short History of America's Garden (Kitchen Gardeners International/ "eat the view")Monday, 29 September 2008 cimg3351Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3344Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3340Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3318Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3312Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3309Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3306Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3304Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3303Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3293Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3291Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3287Thursday, 25 September 2008 cimg3276Thursday, 25 September 2008 The Fart Party » Archive » we’re all fuckedWednesday, 24 September 2008 And here's Rushkoff talking to Julia Wertz who draws a cool little webcomic. Print Your Own Money - Douglas Rushkoff on Boing BoingWednesday, 24 September 2008 "...Where localities had previously been free to mint their own currency based on the crops they had grown, now they were forced to borrow money from a central bank. This allowed the issuer of currency - the crown - to extract value from every transaction. Anyone who wanted to buy anything from anyone else had to run it through the central authority - coin of the realm - one way or the other.... This engendered competition for money, which was now a scarce currency issued at interest... bankruptcy was built into the currency system... Where does... money come from? Someone else who borrowed..." short essay by Rushkoff plus reader comments. (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/23/what-went-wrong.html#comment-290957 in particular is a nice complement) From Global Guerrillas: ONWARD TO A HOLLOW STATEMonday, 22 September 2008 Charts comparing McCain and Obama Tax PlansFriday, 19 September 2008 This is an improvement over the Washington Post graph that also shows the size of the population in each bracket. More Peak Soil - "Our Good Earth" in National Geographic MagazineFriday, 12 September 2008 "... even as humankind is ratchetting up its demands on soil, we are destroying it faster than ever before... " Beautiful photographs with the article, too. With Uncles Bobby and MichaelTuesday, 9 September 2008 With Great-grandpa TomTuesday, 9 September 2008 With Great-grandma AnnTuesday, 9 September 2008 Four generationsTuesday, 9 September 2008 From Complex Diagrams: Tax Policy GraphsSaturday, 6 September 2008 Shared by Reed HedgesThe Washington Post has published this excellent graphic comparing the proposed tax policies of the two mainstream candidates. It does a great job of clearly contrasting the impact per tax-bracket in terms of percent and average change in tax burden. Click through for their brief commentary. (And note that it’s brief because the graph [...] http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/09/04/tax-policy-graphs/. Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake IdentityFriday, 5 September 2008 Bruce Schneier: "...we all have a data shadow that follows us around, and that more and more institutions interact with our data shadows instead of with us. We only intersect with our data shadows once in a while -- when we apply for a driver's license or passport, for example -- and those interactions are authenticated by older, less-secure interactions. The rest of the world assumes that our photo IDs glue us to our data shadows, ignoring the rather flimsy connection between us and our plastic cards. (And, no, REAL-ID won't help.) ... It seems to me that our data shadows are becoming increasingly distinct from us, almost with a life of their own. What's important now is our shadows; we're secondary. And as our society relies more and more on these shadows, we might even become unnecessary. " With Grandma GailWednesday, 27 August 2008 Proud uncleWednesday, 27 August 2008 With Daddy & Uncle DanWednesday, 27 August 2008 Snuggled upWednesday, 27 August 2008 Sleeping with hat over eyesWednesday, 27 August 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
1 month old First trip to the pond!Wednesday, 27 August 2008 At the pondWednesday, 27 August 2008 Play timeWednesday, 27 August 2008 Hangin' with DaddyWednesday, 27 August 2008 Mommy's-eye viewWednesday, 27 August 2008 Tongue!Wednesday, 27 August 2008 PensiveWednesday, 27 August 2008 Piggy faceWednesday, 27 August 2008 PretzelWednesday, 27 August 2008 Tiny footWednesday, 27 August 2008 Tiny handWednesday, 27 August 2008 With MommyWednesday, 27 August 2008 With Great-aunt Lynne and Grandma GailWednesday, 27 August 2008 Time lapse of various mushrooms growingWednesday, 13 August 2008 YouTube - José González - 'Teardrop'Tuesday, 12 August 2008 Reasons ClearMonday, 11 August 2008 I think the reasons for the fighting in Georgia are pretty clear, though so far
few US news sources have really discussed it seriously.
Rising Gasoline Costs | FlowingDataFriday, 8 August 2008 A neat animation of gas prices fluxuating over time. The animation gives a feel for how prices quickly jump up, then float back down, as well as the ability to compare the variability between the regions. daddy-1024Friday, 1 August 2008 awake-day 3Wednesday, 30 July 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
Third day, taking in a bit of daylight from the window. More at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alyaandreed/2716917587/. great grandmaWednesday, 30 July 2008 ReedAndAlya posted a photo:
Our Babushka is now Prababushka. More at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alyaandreed/2716879395/. sleepingWednesday, 30 July 2008 z-and-aWednesday, 30 July 2008 Welcome to the world, Zephan!Wednesday, 30 July 2008 Alexandra and I are extremely happy to announce Zephan Isaac, born on Friday July 25. We'll be adding photos over the next few weeks at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alyaandreed/ and at http://www.interreality.org/~reed (subscribe by RSS if you use it). Please pass the news on, if I didn't have someone's email address. Send me your mailing address if you would like a photo/announcement card - reed.lGZQuD@interreality.org How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction - The Boston GlobeMonday, 7 July 2008 "...The drug's effectiveness inspired an elegant theory, known as the chemical hypothesis: Sadness is simply a lack of chemical happiness... There's only one problem with this theory of depression: it's almost certainly wrong..." McCain’s Energy Plan: Correct Diagnosis, Killer PrescriptionTuesday, 1 July 2008 From TheOilDrum.com "With gas topping $4 per gallon and oil prices seemingly reaching new highs every week, more pain at the pump is certain in the foreseeable future, and energy policy is rightfully claiming its place as a major topic of the 2008 electio Interview with the Dalai Lama's Youngest BrotherWednesday, 25 June 2008 He's like the Dalai Lama, but you get the sense that maybe "you could sit down and have a beer with him." (via boingboing.net) Structure and tie strengths in Mobile Communication NetworksTuesday, 24 June 2008 "...They observed a coupling between interaction strengths and a network's local structure, with the counterintuitive consequence that social networks are robust to the removal of the strong ties but fall apart after a phase transition if the weak ties ar Political segregation - The Big Sort (Economist.com)Monday, 23 June 2008 (where and how we live) "Americans are increasingly choosing to live among
like-minded neighbours. This makes the culture war more bitter and politics
harder." via http://www.metafilter.com/72710/The-Big-Sort (some more
discussion there) Hot Chip Video - Ready for the FloorSunday, 25 May 2008 More video fun from Hot Chip ("Over and Over" is another one). Never Been - A web tapestryMonday, 5 May 2008 A visual tapestry/ribbon story in Russian/Eastern European folk art style. Use your mouse to drag the tapestry around. Too bad you can't also zoom in. The Universe Is Conspiring to Help UsWednesday, 30 April 2008 Kevin Kelly The future of dirt - The Boston GlobeMonday, 28 April 2008 Soil Science. The article makes it seem like this is some kind of newfangled
research-- but it's as old as agriculture itself! We just lost it in the
last few centruries as farms evolved alongside industry. Regular expression syntax reference chartFriday, 25 April 2008 Clay Barnes made this handy-dandy chart of the regular expression syntaxes for vim, sed, grep, egrep, and perl. How to Get Rid of ThingsTuesday, 22 April 2008 Well, what it says. How to get rid of things. NY Times Magazine article on Jan Chipchase and mobile phone use in the third worldSunday, 13 April 2008 Jan Chipchase is a designer who works for Nokia studying how people use phones and what kinds of designs they might find better or more useful. This interesting article follows him as he travels the world, looking at how mobile phones are used especially VisLink: Revealing Relationships Amongst VisualizationsThursday, 10 April 2008 Video explaining VisLink, a way to view and interact with the relations between two 2d visualization displays in a 3d space. More at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ccollins/research/VisLink/index.html . (They're using Prefuse.) Landline - 06/04/2008: Food Forest . Australian Broadcasting CorpWednesday, 9 April 2008 A short video profile of The Food Forest, a permaculture farm in south Australia. How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction - The Boston GlobeMonday, 7 July 2008 "...The drug's effectiveness inspired an elegant theory, known as the chemical hypothesis: Sadness is simply a lack of chemical happiness... There's only one problem with this theory of depression: it's almost certainly wrong..." McCain’s Energy Plan: Correct Diagnosis, Killer PrescriptionTuesday, 1 July 2008 From TheOilDrum.com "With gas topping $4 per gallon and oil prices seemingly reaching new highs every week, more pain at the pump is certain in the foreseeable future, and energy policy is rightfully claiming its place as a major topic of the 2008 electio From NYT > Magazine: Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis?Saturday, 28 June 2008 From Trolltech Labs Blogs: Wide FindingFriday, 27 June 2008 Interview with the Dalai Lama's Youngest BrotherWednesday, 25 June 2008 He's like the Dalai Lama, but you get the sense that maybe "you could sit down and have a beer with him." (via boingboing.net) Structure and tie strengths in Mobile Communication NetworksTuesday, 24 June 2008 "...They observed a coupling between interaction strengths and a network's local structure, with the counterintuitive consequence that social networks are robust to the removal of the strong ties but fall apart after a phase transition if the weak ties ar Political segregation - The Big Sort (Economist.com)Monday, 23 June 2008 (where and how we live) "Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours. This makes the culture war more bitter and politics harder." From Dave Gray: Q-tools: An approach for discovery and knowledge workWednesday, 4 June 2008 From DensityDesign | Communication Design & Complexity: Informed simplicityTuesday, 3 June 2008 From information aesthetics: magnetic movieWednesday, 4 June 2008 From information aesthetics: magnetic movieWednesday, 4 June 2008 From Orion Magazine Articles: The Fatherland of ApplesThursday, 29 May 2008 Hot Chip Video - Ready for the FloorSunday, 25 May 2008 More video fun from Hot Chip ("Over and Over" is another one). From Orion Magazine Articles: The Gospel of ConsumptionThursday, 1 May 2008 From Orion Magazine Articles: Environmental AmnesiaMonday, 12 May 2008 Never Been - A web tapestryMonday, 5 May 2008 A visual tapestry/ribbon story in Russian/Eastern European folk art style. Use your mouse to drag the tapestry around. Too bad you can't also zoom in. The Universe Is Conspiring to Help UsWednesday, 30 April 2008 Kevin Kelly The future of dirt - The Boston GlobeMonday, 28 April 2008 Soil Science. The article makes it seem like this is some kind of newfangled
research-- but it's as old as agriculture itself! We just lost it in the last
few centruries as farms evolved alongside industry. Regular expression syntax reference chartFriday, 25 April 2008 Clay Barnes made this handy-dandy chart of the regular expression syntaxes for vim, sed, grep, egrep, and perl. How to Get Rid of ThingsTuesday, 22 April 2008 Well, what it says. How to get rid of things. NY Times Magazine article on Jan Chipchase and mobile phone use in the third worldSunday, 13 April 2008 Jan Chipchase is a designer who works for Nokia studying how people use phones and what kinds of designs they might find better or more useful. This interesting article follows him as he travels the world, looking at how mobile phones are used especially "Where Have All the Joiners Gone?" (from Orion magazine)Friday, 11 April 2008 Cheap fossil fuel has made us what we are. Which is to say: rich, |
