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 …

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.

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 …

The Russians Used a Pencil: Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif

I wish I had an iPhone 4 just to have a glif.

On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five …

I began snowboarding on the 13th of March. So far, I've spent a total of eight days on the board (spread on 3 weekends). In these eight days I've taken 8 hours of private lessons with two very skilled (and patient) instructors of the Val di Fassa Ski and Snowboarding …

I discovered this Withings wi-fi body scale after reading this tweet by Neven Mrgan:

My weight report for 2010: http://j.mp/eypTcB Executive summary: could be better, could be worse.

It sounds like a great tool to track your body weight: compare it to what I've done last year …

Somehow (twitter maybe ?) I've found the transcript of an interview to Bob Dylan which appeared on Playboy in 1966.

So¹, I don't know if Bob Dylan was totally out of his mind or if he was just playing crazy, but this 1966 interview is brilliant stuff.

For example, the …

I have sketched a series of yoga poses that I follow as a daily exercise.

I thought they might be of interest to someone else as well, so I've put them on this Flickr set.

Farewell, Facebook (by aadm)

I got very bored with all this facebook craze lately so here's what I did last June.

D'estate si riesce ad apprezzare Milano; vai ad uno dei cinema all'aperto come quello del Conservatorio, ti vedi un film italiano, simpatico e non pretenzioso (mai l'avresti detto, è di Salvatores), giri in bicicletta senza rischiare di essere stirato. A volte, Milano è bella.

Leggevo questo articolo: Going Where A Lot of Other Dudes With Really Great Equipment Have Gone Before, di John Tierney (New York Times, 26 luglio 1998), e trovo questo passaggio che dà praticamente una giustificazione antropologica al desiderio che noi abbiamo di comprarci chiodi, martelli, piccozze, abbigliamento in tactel, etc …

There's a place in Italy where you can still eat for 5 euros.

"This report relates the results of an advanced, quantitative seismic characterization of the Alpha field, through simultaneous elastic inversion, rock physics modelling and stochastic classification. In the absence of any reliable geophysical data, the opinions and interpretations presented in this report were invented. However, due to the uncertainty inherent in …