"Bari nel nostro cuore" (Taken with instagram)

Had a great day of riding last Saturday. Woke up at 6:30am, took the 7:39 train to Sestri Levante. Three hours or so, and then here I am in Sestri; cool breeze, warm sunshine, I started following the Superenduro signs. Here's a few pics that sum up the …

Randall is one of my favourite authors. This comic here sums up perfectly my current feelings about tech bloggers (also read this rant that I wrote some time ago).

How the story went first of all: the Japan Syndrome, appeared on The Economist on March 15th.

Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl by William Tucker.

Radiation dose chart by Randall Munroe, inspired by this page written by his friend Ellen.

About Godzilla then, this is a must read: Japan …

From "Secrets of a Mind-Gamer", a fascinating article on a normal guy who becomes a memory champion:

In his 1869 book Hereditary Genius Sir Francis Galton argued that a person could improve at mental and physical activities until he hit a wall, which “he cannot by any education or exertion …

I would like to move to some place neat in the future, maybe a place where the outdoors are close and people are friendly and the quality of life is great (maybe everybody dreams about a place like this).

Vancouver seems to be that place, however it would be difficult …

Making a really good coffee

Interesting post on Scientific American, however this barista needs a reality check: a refractometer to make coffee ? I'd recommend a couple of place in my hometown (Bari) where baristas have no PhD but make the best coffee ever.

Dopo aver visto di persona come va Andrea Bruno sulla sua Covert, e poi un'altro video che mostra quel matto di Brendan Fairclough sulla nuova Enduro S-Works -- attenzione all'ultimo minuto del video, quando Brendan fa davvero una cosa esagerata!, davvero mi viene da chiedere se questa nuova razza di bici …

A great article on Slate.com: taking inspiration from "King's speech", a stutterer writes about stuttering.

Some great insights, worth reading if you are vaguely interested in the subject (or if you have a friend who stammers and want to know what on earth does he think when he's stuck …

I love tech bloggers such as Gruber, Brooks, Arment. Even if there really is nothing in common between me and those guys except for a generic interest in technology and nerdism, I still love their passion, the public interactions on twitter and instagram (true, sometimes their shots are not really …

What I was looking for: an app to store my passwords

I stuck with Lockbox Lite for a long time on my iPhone. Then I got fed up about not being able to have the same data available also on my two Macs (not to mention the stupid ads). So …

Fine settimana sulla neve riassunto in tre foto.

"In 2007, when he was at the State Department, Jared Cohen wrote with tragic wrongheadedness that “the Internet is a place where Iranian youth can … say anything they want as they operate free from the grips of the police-state apparatus.” Thanks to the exciting new technology, many of those freely …

Povero illuso che ti fai una gita sui Corni di Canzo alla domenica. Se sei l'unico che va su con una bici da montagna, ci sara' un motivo. Arrivi in cima, e scopri che e' tutto un ghiaccio. Per perdere duecento metri di dislivello su un sentiero che zigzaga dolcemente …

Ho raccolto in un fotoset su flickr alcune foto scattate durante l'ultimo mio viaggio in America. Sono stato prima a Denver per una conferenza poi a Golden per una riunione alla Colorado School of Mines.

In mezzo, ci ho ficcato un weekend a Boulder che ero curioso di visitare, visto …