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。

在转盘.fm

伯特·赫尔姆写的是转盘.fm联合创始人比利·查森（Billy Chasen）和塞思·戈尔茨坦（Seth Goldstein）试图在社交音乐网站取得初步成功后，为这家陷入困境的网站注入新的活力。

公司：伯特赫尔姆-转盘.fm：我们的爱去了哪里？

Typically, each remains on his own coast, running the 14-person company in two mini silos. (Chasen still hadn't met the lawyer who negotiated their label deals; Goldstein recently stopped calling in to the Monday staff meeting after Chasen called it distracting.) In person, they trade gibes like a married couple, and sometimes it's funny. Other times, everybody around just feels uncomfortable.

关于基因组

拉塞尔·布兰多姆在基因实验室23andme上运行了他的基因，并没有得到一组明显的、可操作的结果，而是“一堆相互矛盾的事实”

锥子：拉塞尔·布兰多姆-我从个人基因组测试中学到的一切

So when sites like 23andme try to lay out all that messy, incomprehensible data for mass c***umption, they’ve got quite a problem on their hands. They don’t have any straightforward truths to offer users, just a flood of vague and often frightening ambiguities. But wherever there’s a gap between what they promise and what they can deliver, 23andme fills it with social media.

关于geohot

大卫·库什纳（David Kushner）写了一篇关于乔治·霍茨（Geohot）的文章，追溯了他早期**视频游戏机的经历，从广播棚套件到成功破解第一部iPhone和PS3。

《纽约客》：大卫·库什纳——机器政治

The next morning, Hotz stood in his parents’ kitchen and hit "Record" on a video camera set up to face him. He had unruly curls and wispy chin stubble, and spoke with a Jersey accent. "Hi, everyone, I’m geohot," he said, referring to his online handle, then whisked an iPhone from his pocket. "This is the world’s first unlocked iPhone."

关于愚蠢的游戏

为了回应Taylor Clark在Kotaku的演讲，Matthew S.Burns深入探讨了为什么智能游戏往往是例外，并发现当“好故事”被锁定在精神变态的角色（即你的普通持枪英雄）身上时，出现了一种不和谐。

神奇荒原：马修S。烧伤-游戏中的沉默，或者，动物作为一个系统

The dissonance of the Uncharted series is a famous example: the experience implies two completely different worlds. One is where Nathan Drake is an affable hero, and the other is where Drake murders hundreds of fellow human beings and feels nothing. Though the developers took care to paint over the seams where they could, even the cleverest narrative design couldn’t change how completely incongruous that really is, on a basic, fundamental level.

关于乔斯·惠顿

《复仇者》刚上映，《GQ》就在电视和电影上介绍了乔斯·惠顿和他多年来的奋斗经历，尽管有数百万的影迷。

问：亚历克斯帕帕德马斯-极客将继承地球

As a counterexample, Lindelof points out that no one on The Walking Dead ever says the word "zombie" or brings up George Romero's movies. "I almost feel that's more of a stretch from reality than what Joss was doing. The idea of saying 'Let's have that conversation [in the work itself], let's acknowledge and celebrate the fact that we're creating something new out of old stuff,' was incredibly liberating, I think, for filmmakers of our generation."

时间简史

继1992年埃罗尔·莫里斯的经典电影《时间简史》的电影版发行后，斯蒂芬·霍金（stephenhawking）回忆起他为更广泛的读者写作的理由。

卫报：史蒂芬·霍金-来自档案馆，1992年5月1日：史蒂芬·霍金评论他的畅销书的电影

I wrote my book in the hope of telling a large audience about the progress that was being made in understanding the universe. My aim was to have it sold on airport bookstalls. My agent was polite about this, but he clearly didn’t believe it would happen.

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