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。

论创造生命

威尔希尔顿介绍了科学家克雷格文特和他的努力，创造生物机械，可以用于从创造蛋白质到塑料的一切。

****：威尔斯。海尔顿-克雷格·文特’虫子也许能拯救世界

We came to the last tub in the room, filled with the telltale yellow: a culture of synthetically modified organi**s growing in the open air. They were the color of lemon-lime sports drink and, in the bright sunlight, had a radiant glow. It was like peering into a bathtub filled with the juice of 1,000 light sticks. Venter gazed happily at the algae. "The photosynthetic process has been working for about three and a half billion years," he said. "This is the first major change."

玻璃工程

罗宾斯隆（robinsloan）对Facebook和谷歌看待世界的方式有了新的认识。

罗宾斯兰网：罗宾斯隆-图片与视觉

Really, Facebook is the world’s largest photo sharing site—that also happens to be a social network and a login system. In this context, the Instagram acquisition and the new Facebook Camera app make perfect sense; this is Facebook trebling down on photos. The day another service steals the photo throne is the day that Facebook’s trajectory starts to bend.

黄金时代

本周的《纽约客》— 塞满了科森·怀特黑德的科幻小说，朱诺·Díaz等— 威廉·吉布森回忆起他在50年代和60年代阅读和探索科幻小说的成长岁月。

《纽约客》：威廉吉布森-奥尔兹火箭881950年

When I was five, I was chastised for disagreeing with an Air Force man, a visitor to our home, who made mock of my Willy Ley book. I knew he was wrong when he said that space travel would never happen. And I was right, at least in the relatively short term, just a few years off from Sputnik. I was a native, I felt unquestioningly, of Tomorrow.

关于喜欢

显然，喜欢并不总是喜欢。

《****》：Somini Sengupta——在Facebook上，“喜欢”成了广告

In filing the case, in United States District Court, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the company had been unfair and deceptive in deploying users’ names and pictures in advertising without c***ent. In its defense, Facebook took a press-freedom approach, saying it did not need c***ent because sp***ored stories were actually "news," because all Facebook users were public figures to their friends. Details of the tentative settlement were not disclosed.

在reddit上

Alexis Ohanian讲述了Reddit公司的创世故事。

克里斯汀·拉戈里奥——亚历克西斯·奥哈尼安是如何建立互联网头版的

The next morning, on the train back to Virginia, hung over, somewhere in the middle of Connecticut, I get a call from Paul. He says, "I'm sorry, we made a mistake. We don't like your idea, but we like you guys." We got off the train, and I was able to sweet-talk the Amtrak lady into not charging us to turn around. In our conversation, Paul said, "You guys need to build the front page of the Internet." That was all Paul, and that became Reddit.

论策划

唱诗班西夏在网上又一轮“策展”

锥：唱诗班西夏-你不是馆长，你实际上只是一个肮脏的博客

This precious bit of dressing-up what people choose to share on the Internet is, sure, silly, but it's also a way for bloggers to distance themselves from the dirty blogging masses. You are no different from some teen in Indiana with a LiveJournal about cutting. Sorry folks! You're in this nasty fray with the rest of us. And your metaphor is all wrong. More likely you're a low-grade collector, not a curator.

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