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。

关于猫

如今在网上几乎不可能避开猫，吉迪恩·刘易斯·克劳斯（Gideon Lewis Kraus）前往日本，寻找世界上最受欢迎的网上猫的来源。

连线：吉迪恩刘易斯克劳斯-在寻找生活，呼噜，唱歌的在线猫工业复合体的心脏

What an Internet cat does is thus confront us with how cravenly we ourselves court approval. A cat, if it decides to love you, will do so only on its own terms, and, as that Viennese study showed, the more you let it come to you, i.e., the less you need it, the better loved you’re going to be. The reason the lolcat says "Oh hai" is because he only just noticed, and certainly doesn’t care, that you caught him serenely occupying ur nouns, verbing ur other nouns. He doesn’t worry about you or what you think; by his living in your screen, you can love him, but there isn’t a prayer of reciprocation. Thus is the Internet cat the realest cat of all.

垃圾邮件评论

在通常的例子中，人类最优秀的作品充斥着网络的评论部分，你经常会发现一些模糊的话题性的赞美和注释。格雷格史蒂文斯着眼于工具和搜索引擎优化公司背后的评论垃圾邮件。

核心：格雷格·史蒂文斯-揭秘：垃圾评论的肮脏世界

If you run your own blog or news site, you may see dozens of these comments a day. They come in many varieties. There is the Vague Compliment ("Excellent post! Thanks for the useful information!"), the Vague Critici** ("of course like your web-site but you need to take a look at the spelling on quite a few of your posts"), and of course the very charming categories of Endless Rambling N***ense and Endlessly Repeated Links. Often exactly the same comments will appear, word-for-word, across dozens or hundreds of different web pages.

在buzzfeed上

马克·特雷西（Marc Tracy）介绍了BuzzFeed的新贵政治网站，该网站由前政治家本·史密斯（Ben Smith）领导，以及该团队在推特时代推动政治对话的努力。

新共和国：马克·特雷西-巴士上的两个孩子

Think of CNN offering 24-hour updates during the Gulf war; or the Drudge Report embodying the Internet’s premium on sensationali** during the Monica Lewinsky mess; or Politico, which, in 2008, exploited the blogosphere’s expansion of the community of political junkies during an especially captivating election. Looked at this way, BuzzFeed—lightning-quick, light-hearted, addictive, and a little dumb—is the defining media outlet of 2012.

任天堂电源

近25年后，随着任天堂电源关闭的消息传出，里夫斯·维德曼（Reeves Wiedeman）回忆起一个读书的年轻人，并思考电子游戏已经发生了多么彻底的变化。

《纽约客》：里夫斯·维德曼——任天堂动力下

In hindsight, reading so extensively about video games without owning is like poring over Rolling Stone without owning a record player. But there was a practical purpose: one of Nintendo Power’s great draws were its walk-throughs: step-by-step guides to beating especially difficult secti*** of games. I read the walk-throughs so that I would not embarrass myself when invited to play Nintendo by friends with cooler parents, or when a babysitter snuck a Nintendo c***ole into the house under my parents’ noses, swearing my brother and I to secrecy, in the (correct) belief that the presence of the games would make her job much easier.

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