Covered this week; The history behind Apple Campus 2… April drone footage of Apple Campus 2… hackers hijack a bank’s entire online footprint… 10 foods nutritionists say they never eat… Don Rickles dies at 90… Journey, Yes and Pearl Jam inducted into the R’n’R Hall of Fame… America’s love affair with the Tomahawk cruise missile… if Will Smith had done The Matrix…
April 3, 2017
Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said that the new campus was ‘a shot at building the best office building in the world.’ It will house 13,000 employees on over 2.8 million square feet of office space. Apple employees will enjoy fruit trees, a massive fitness center, and a workspace that’s been carefully overseen by Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer. Here’s a complete history of the project unfolding over recent years from Tech Insider (the scrolling gets screwed up a bit on this ling in Safari. Firefox and Chrome work fine though).
To go along with the story above… our monthly check in with Matthew Roberts excellent collection of drone footage which has documented the campus build from the ground up… here’s the April 2017 update.
April 4, 2017
“The traditional model of hacking a bank isn’t so different from the old-fashioned method of robbing one. Thieves get in, get the goods, and get out. But one enterprising group of hackers targeting a Brazilian bank seems to have taken a more comprehensive and devious approach: One weekend afternoon, they rerouted all of the bank’s online customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank’s properties, where the marks obediently handed over their account information.” As if we didn’t have enough to worry about… I’m telling you, this internet thing is gonna come back and bite us in the ass big time at some point.
April 5, 2017
“While eliminating entire food groups isn’t always necessary, we talked to nutritionists about the foods they never eat to give you a better idea of a well-rounded, nutritious diet. Ditch the soda and hop on the seltzer train and you, too, can be eating like a nutritionist in no time.”
April 6, 2017
Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.
April 7, 2017
The 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony featured Steve Perry’s first onstage appearance with Journey in 26 years (even though he didn’t actually sing), a Yes reunion with Rush’s Geddy Lee on bass, a moving tribute to Tupac Shakur and the first performance of Pearl Jam’s original lineup since early 1991. But it was David Letterman, a last-minute replacement for Neil Young and the only non-musician of the evening to speak, that summed up the feeling of the event best. “When I came here for rehearsals, I was reminded what a gift live music is,” he said while inducting Pearl Jam. “Never take live music for granted.”
New York Times 8 great moments from the inductions.
April 8, 2017
In honor of Trump’s first military endeavor with his missile strike in Syria… a history of the DOD’s love affair with the Tomahawk cruise missile as its go-to tool for reaching out and touching the enemy…
April 9, 2017
“In one of the most famous cases of actors turning down roles, Will Smith did just that for the role of Neo in The Matrix. The role instead went to Keanu Reeves and Will Smith went onto do Wild Wild West. But let’s put on our alternate reality goggles and see what The Matrix would’ve looked like had Will Smith accepted the role of Neo.”
