我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

论新美学

首先是一本关于新美学的入门读物，詹姆斯·布里德尔的《调查/项目/tumblr关注世界上科技创新的新奇事物》。周一，作家布鲁斯·斯特林发表了一篇文章，回应了几周前在SXSW的新美学小组，探讨了这种被感知的新的观察方式，或记录，数字技术是如何渗透到现实生活中的。它引发了一波讨论，但不要错过作家西蒙·雷诺兹、乔尔·约翰逊、汤姆·阿米蒂奇以及创作者项目的更多人的回应。

连线：超越：布鲁斯·斯特林——论新美学

We’re not going to be able to gloss over this gaping vacuity by "making the machines our friends." Because they’re not our friends. Machines are never our friends, even if they’re intimates in our purses and pockets eighteen hours a day. They may very well be our algorithmic investors, but they’re certainly not our art critics, because at that, they suck even worse than they do at running our economy.

在轮辋上

菲利克斯吉列介绍RIM首席执行官托尔斯滕海因斯和他的努力振兴黑莓**商。

商业周刊：菲利克斯吉列-托尔斯滕海因斯：进入RIM的火环

"So you have that reali** there. But also, you have to get them excited about the future of BlackBerry." Then Heins leans forward in his chair, peers over the top of his glasses. "I don’t like to be dictatorial, but if I have to, I can be," he adds. "Right now at RIM, I’m a bit dictatorial."

“休闲装拉里”

Rob Dubbin采访了传奇游戏设计师Al Lowe（你可能从休闲套装Larry、King's Quest I-IV、Police Quest等中认识他），了解他在Sierra的历史以及他对现代游戏行业的看法。

杀戮画面：罗布·杜宾-洛夫

Of course, there were also films that were built by committee, where you would kind of go, "Yeah, I guess it was all right," but it wasn’t very focused. You don’t get that real intimate sense that you’ve entered someone’s mind and been part of that person for a while. And that’s what I think we’ve lost in the videogame business. Because the teams now are so massive, and it takes so many people to do a product, that you end up with this more-or-less corporate game that has to be safe, and can’t really be that different from what sold well last year.

关于“愚蠢的游戏”

山姆·安德森探索了俄罗斯方块时代以来的“愚蠢游戏”，并与游戏设计师扎克·盖奇（Zach Gage）会面，后者是Drop7的幕后策划者。

《****》杂志：山姆·安德森-再来一场。。。

"Having just built this, I’m seeing how much I hate the Internet," Gage told me. "I mean, I really like the Internet and what it’s done for games — it’s been amazing. But in so many ways it’s just terrible. Arcade cabinets did a lot of things that were really **art that we never gave them credit for. There’s a lot of social psychology embedded in that structure."

在os/2上

Harry McCracken回顾了由IBM和微软共同开发的OS-2操作系统的兴衰，该系统虽然大部分是隐形的，但仍在运行纽约市的MetroCard地铁支付系统。不要错过操作系统上1993年的计算机编年史部分。

时代：Techland:Harry McCracken——IBM OS/2的25年：一个传奇操作系统的奇怪的日子和令人惊讶的来世

And the new hardware was accompanied by a next-generation operating system, OS/2. Co-developed by IBM and Microsoft, it was intended to replace DOS, the aging software that then powered most of the planet’s microcomputers. It never did.

1982年：关于个人计算机

值得重温一下詹姆斯·法洛斯1982年在《大西洋月刊》上发表的关于个人电脑的生活、写作和工作的文章。在过去的三十年里，计算机领域发生了显著的变化，这是计算机史上一个引人入胜的、个人的早期时刻。

大西洋：詹姆斯法洛斯-与电脑生活

Computers cause another, more insidious problem, by forever distorting your sense of time. When I first saw the system in the back room at Optek, I was so dazzled by the instantaneous deletion of sentences and movement of paragraphs that I thought I could never want anything more. When the scientists at Optek warned me about certain bottlenecks, I had to stifle my laughter. In particular, they warned me that I might grow impatient with tape recorders as a way to store data.

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