Avete presente Winnie The Pooh? La foresta che ha ispirato la sua storia si trova poco fuori Londra ed è visitabile

Money quote: "Five Hundred Acre Wood is the place that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, the magical place in which a fictionalized version of A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, had adventures with Winnie the Pooh and friends."

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/five-hundred-acre-wood

Harrison Ford intervistato da GQ: photoshooting con i suoi stessi vestiti anziché con abiti di scena, e già questo fa storia a sé. Ma sappiamo che Ford anche a 75 anni è una leggenda, no? E l'intervista è davvero notevole.

Money quote: "“It's always better,” he says, over a breakfast frittata in Boston, “not to talk about it, I think. Just fucking do it. Don't ’splain it. Especially if you're getting away with it.”

As I am his breakfast companion today, and as he's here to be interviewed, this doesn't seem like a promising trajectory. I feel obliged to remind him that I am in the ’splain business.

“Yeah,” he says, with that gravelly drawl. “I know.”"

https://www.gq.com/story/harrison-ford-gq-cover-story-2017

La fenomenale storia di Bort, l’autore delle “Ultime parole famose” della Settimana Enigmistica su Fumettologica

http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/07/bort-ultime-parole-famose-settimana-enigmistica/

A cosa serve un Apple Watch 3 LTE? - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/cosa-serve-un-apple-watch-3-lte/

La cappella degli Scrovegni a nuova luce restituita - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2017/09/14/tecnologia/news/la-cappella-degli-scrovegni-a-nuova-luce-restituita-RBjJIfqLgVb6TUMlRPw7AK/pagina.html

In un esercizio di speculazione che ha più buchi logici di un pezzo di emmental, si ragiona sul bisogno di un accordo di genitorialità oltre a quello matrimoniale. L'esigenza di partenza, cioè il disagio e la frammentazione di ruoli e famiglie americane, cosa che qui da noi nessuno affronta quando si parla di Stati Uniti, è forte. Il percorso che ne nasce però è delirante e figlio di un solipsismo mal cresciuto.

Money quote: "My mother was in a similar position, even when she was married to my father. In the US at the time, it was common for fathers not to be involved in raising the children. What we would now call a ‘traditional marriage’ never really spelled out any principles for shared parenting, except to assign all basic childcare to wives. A father might be called upon occasionally to back up a mother’s disciplinary rules, but I felt somewhat lucky that my mine was never enlisted for this role. When my parents separated, there was no question about who would get the kids: the wife, my mother. Once my parents divorced, my father was around even less, and never got to know my children (my eldest was 12 years old when he died)."

https://aeon.co/ideas/we-need-a-contract-for-co-parenting-not-just-for-marriage

Per gli amanti della fotografia che poi sembrano più che altro amanti della tecnlogia e si perdono in infinite discussioni se questo sia meglio di quello e così via: il ragionamento di un fotografo basato sull’esperienza e il buon senso.

Money quote: “I’m not saying that just getting a different camera will make you a better photographer, far from it, but if you have a camera that has features that compliment your working style, you’re improving the odds of creating special images”

https://petapixel.com/2017/02/25/camera-matters-not-way-youre-thinking/

Negli Usa l’eolico guadagna spazio e si propone come alternativa vincente rispetto alle altre rinnovabili. Uno studio pubblicato dallo Scientific American che dice tutto, ma proprio tutto sull’argomento

Money quote: “This post will review a few of the major U.S. wind energy trends tracked in the DOE report. For a full rundown, I suggest you check out the full report and associated slide deck.”

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/wind-energy-is-one-of-the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-and-its-getting-cheaper

L’arte dell’Atari - il mio articolo per Fumettologica

http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/09/art-of-atari/

Avreste voluto esserci anche voi, al lancio di iPhone X che coincide con l’apertura ufficiale per la stampa e il pubblico VIP della nuova sede Apple Park? Beh, il reportage fotografico di Recode risolve buona parte del vostro problema. È quasi come esserci stati.

Money quote: “Approaching Apple Park really does feel more like a real park than an office park — especially on the hill leading up to the Steve Jobs Theater and the grounds surrounding it. The theater is a 20-foot-tall glass cylinder, 165 feet in diameter, with a metallic carbon-fiber roof and a wide path completely surrounding it.”

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/13/16299086/apple-park-steve-jobs-theater-iphone-event-photos

La prima volta di Angela Ahrendts sul palco del Keynote Apple - il mio articolo pr Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/la-volta-angela-sul-palco/

Storia della macchina per fare il sushi, dell'uomo che l'ha creata e di chi si è sempre molto opposto

Money quote: “And that’s when it came to him: he would use his firm’s knowledge of candy-packaging machines to develop the robot. The idea, while off-the-wall in the mid-1970s, had a simple premise. If he could lower the cost of making sushi by mechanizing parts of the process and reducing the need for highly paid chefs, he could bring the previously elite Japanese dish to the masses, and in doing so increase demand for rice.

Four decades later, Suzumo Machinery Co.’s robots are used by about 70,000 customers around the world, ranging from sushi chains to factories, and account for about 70 percent of the market for the equipment at restaurants, according to Suzumo’s estimates. Kaiten sushi, also known as conveyor-belt sushi, has become a $6 billion industry in Japan alone, partly thanks to Suzuki’s invention.”

https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2017/08/30/how-an-angry-candy-man-revolutionized-the-modern-sushi-industry

Se vi siete mai chiesti come sia la vita di un ingegnere del software, che fatica a realizzare i suoi prodotti ma poi, contento del risultato, li vende con una certa soddisfazione, per fortuna c’è il mini documentario-verità di Yves Saint Laurent che vi spiega tutto. Scusatelo per il crudo realismo, ma si sa che i documenti storici sono fatti così, senza alcuna mediazione.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU09j2gGHYg

Time Square: il cartellone pubblicitario 3D della Coca Cola

https://vimeo.com/229199452

Leggete abbastanza bene in inglese e volete provare ad abitare la mente di una persona dislessica? Ecco il vostro sito. Impressionante (se ne fanno anche uno per daltonici, sono contento).

http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea

La chiesa da campo sta diventando una città: straordinarie trasformazioni nel Lagos, che lasciano immaginare futuri alternativi. O forse neanche tanto alternativi.

Money quote: “Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/11/eat-pray-live-lagos-nigeria-megachurches-redemption-camp

Quando il giudice è fatto di silicio oppure è un terzista a 9 dollari l'ora. La storia della giornalista bannata a vita da YouTube, Gmail e da Google Drive per aver pubblicato video terrorisiti.

Money quote: “YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa O’Brien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned from YouTube, but that her Gmail and Google Drive accounts had been suspended as well. She would later learn that a reviewer who works for Google had mistakenly identified her channel, in the words of a YouTube representative, as “being dedicated to terrorist propaganda.””

http://gizmodo.com/journalist-nearly-banned-from-youtube-and-gmail-for-pos-1815314182

Quelli famosi tra noi che sono nati nel 1967 quest’anno compiono 50 anni. Il Post ci fa una bella gallery di 42 nomi, tra cui Matt LeBlanc, Pamela Anderson, Nicole Kidman, Fabio Caressa e Roberto Baggio

http://www.ilpost.it/2017/09/14/nati-nel-1967/the-new-york-comedy-festival-and-the-bob-woodruff-foundation-present-the-10th-annual-stand-up-for-heroes-event/

Storie del momento nerd.

Due Chromebook (uno a casa e uno in ufficio) per fare tutto senza doversi portare dietro niente e spendendo molto poco. Basta per uno che si occupa di data science? A quanto pare la risposta non è semplice, ma molto confortante. Se funziona per chi macina numeri tutto il giorno, pensate a voi che invece fate molto meno.

Money quote:

I set myself the following requirements:

I could only use Chrome OS - no installing/booting to Linux

I couldn’t use another computer for any task

I had to be “fully cloudy” in the sense that I didn’t run any additional hardware

One of the reasons I did this was I wanted to see if it was possible to be a functioning/day to day data scientist without using an expensive laptop. This is part of a broader experiment I’m just beginning on how to democratize data science education.

https://simplystatistics.org/2017/08/29/data-science-on-a-chromebook/

Storia orale di un videogioco che non è solo un videogioco, sul Campo Santo Quarterly Review, rivista trimestrale che non conoscevo ma che mi pare assai interessante.

Money quote: "I like it a lot. I wanted to know how Tales from the Borderlands came to be, I wanted to know who made it, and I wanted most of all for my mind not to think of the game in the same breath as “plane racist”. So I did this. Here, for the first time, is the oral history of the development of Tales from the Borderlands, compiled from interviews with over a dozen members of the cast and crew from Telltale and Gearbox."

https://quarterly.camposanto.com/tales-from-the-borderlands-the-oral-history-d33bb5f146e6