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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Tango down, tango down. Tempo di rimettere mano all'alfabeto Nato. È un problema di multiculturalità, alla fine.

Money quote: "Just as the names of letters are in groups, spelling alphabets also might have some sense of thematic organization. “We remember better things which are linked in terms of their meaning,” says Valerie Hazan, a professor of speech sciences at University College London. (We’ll be hearing a lot more from her.) Geographic place names are one group. From the 1912 Western Union Spelling Alphabet, just for example, we have “B as in Boston,” “N as in Newark,” and “T as in Texas.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-spelling-alphabet
Stiamo rendendo parte della nostra vita di consumatori un servizio in abbonamento che ci arriva con scadenze regolari in comode scatole. Un business da 2,6 miliardi di dollari negli Usa. (Scommettete che poi seguiremo anche noi?)

Money quote: "According to an in-depth McKinsey report published earlier this year, consumers are now fully on board with receiving products and services on a regular schedule, without having to place new orders. In 2011, the subnoscription e-commerce market was $57 million, and by 2016 it had ballooned to $2.6 billion. This also includes media subnoscriptions like Netflix, meal kits, and product replenishment programs like Amazon’s Subscribe and Save. But curation services–like monthly boxes of clothes, makeup, or other products–are the most popular kind of subnoscription, according to McKinsey’s study, making up 55% of all subnoscriptions.

New subnoscription boxes are popping up every day. There are now 3,500, an increase of 40% from a year before. And a full 47% of subnoscription boxes launched in the past 12 months, according to the warehouse management company Snapfulfil."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90248232/inside-the-2-6-billion-subnoscription-box-wars
Lo so che vi manca il mare. Pure a me. Guardatevi queste foto "da sotto" - peraltro molto belle - di gente che fa surf per soffrire un altro po'.

Money quote: "The 2019 Tahiti Pro, stop No. 7 of the World Surf League Men’s Championship Tour, is under way this week in Tahiti. Brian Bielmann, a photographer with Agence France-Presse, is on the scene, capturing images of the surfers amid the beauty and chaos churned up by the famous waves of Teahupo‘o reef. Collected below, some of Bielmann’s photos of practice sessions and competition runs, as seen from the surface and from beneath the waves."

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/08/surfing-teahupoo-photos-from-above-and-below/596905/
Ebbene sì, rallegratevi tutti: il Design Thinking funziona!
Più siete ignoranti e meglio è.

Money quote: “To be successful, an innovation process must deliver three things: superior solutions, lower risks and costs of change, and employee buy-in. Over the years businesspeople have developed useful tactics for achieving those outcomes. But when trying to apply them, organizations frequently encounter new obstacles and trade-offs.”

https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-design-thinking-works
Se proprio non avete nulla, nulla, nulla da fare, queste immagini di cibi infilzati su stecchi e stecchini che provengono dalla fiera statale dell'Iowa, negli Stati Uniti, sono meravigiosi da guardare. Penso siano tuttavia letali da mangiare, anche in modica quantità.

Money quote: "The popcorn ball with M&Ms on a stick managed to ruin popcorn and M&Ms at the same time, an impressive feat. Funnel cake on a stick is a prime example of fair food taken too far, the traditional powdered sugar replaced with a drizzling of three flavors of liquid sugar. The deep-fried brownie on a stick, however, is a truly marvelous piece of American ingenuity; the result tastes like a pancake with a giant piece of chocolate inside. The monkey tail, despite the try-hard name, is refreshingly simple: a frozen banana dipped in chocolate and covered in nuts."

https://www.eater.com/2019/8/26/20830032/food-on-a-stick-iowa-state-fair
Continuo a essere convinto che nell’industria del porno ci sia di più di quello che di solito ci raccontiamo.

Money quote: “Adult film production company Bang Bros announced on Thursday that it bought PornWikiLeaks.com—a website devoted to doxing and harassing porn performers—with the intent to shut it down forever.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9keb4d/bang-bros-bought-pornwikileaks-doxing-forum-and-set-fire-to-it
Guidare una Tesla Model 3 è stato come quando sono passato dal vecchio Nokia al primo iPhone - il mio lungo backstage della prova della Tesla Model 3 per il Post, intanto che martedì esce l'articolo per Il Foglio (in edicola e online)

Money quote: "Se siete persone da auto in pelle umana e plance che sembrano rificolone, con bottoni cromati, leve e pulsanti tipo cruscotto da cacciabombardiere e ricca dotazione di schermetti Oled a caso un po’ ovunque, siete sull’auto sbagliata. Peccato (per voi)."

https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2019/09/01/guidare-una-tesla-model-3-e-stato-come-quando-sono-passato-dal-vecchio-nokia-al-primo-iphone/