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。

伊隆·马斯克

艾什莉·万斯介绍了乔恩·法夫罗的铁人电影《伊隆·马斯克》的灵感来源。

商业周刊：阿什莉·万斯-埃隆·马斯克，21世纪的实业家

Bryn Mooser, co-director of Baseball in the Time of Cholera, confirms the trip to Haiti. Musk showed up with 450 toys and 35 MacBook Airs for an orphanage. He taught the kids how to fire rockets into the sky during a barbecue, and then set off into the country to visit a village. Did Musk bring all of those presents on his private jet? "Yes, but we don’t mention that," Mooser says with a wink.

在kim的视频里

卡丽娜·朗沃斯（Karina Longworth）探索传奇纽约市出租商店Mondo Kim's的历史。

乡村之声：卡丽娜·朗沃斯——金某视频的奇怪命运

The closing of a video store is not news. With Web streaming, the vanishing DVD sales market, and Netflix, it's an inevitability. Usually, the fate of the physical videos after the store's closing isn't news, either. Maybe there's a dollar sale. Maybe employees **uggle home the dead stock. The customers adapt. They find another video store. They use BitTorrent and YouPorn. This is how it happens. If you've ever had a video-store membership, this has probably happened to you. This is not how it happened with Mondo Kim's.

做模拟人生

本马库奇讨论了一个理论，即我们都生活在一个模拟与美国宇航局的丰富特里。

副：本马库奇-哇，伙计，我们现在在电脑里吗？

It tells me that we’re at the threshold of being able to create a universe—a simulation—and that we in turn could be living inside a simulation, which could be in turn yet another simulation. And our simulated beings could also create simulati***. What I find intriguing is, if there is a creator, and there will be a creator in the future and it will be us, this also means if there’s a creator for our world, here, it’s also us. This means we are both God and servants of God, and that we made it all. What I find inspiring is that, even if we are in a simulation or many orders of magnitude down in levels of simulation, somewhere along the line something escaped the primordial ooze to become us and to result in simulati*** that made us. And that’s cool.

关于y组合子

Randall Stross记录了一句很重的口号，“我们是你所知道的成功的初创公司”，这是一个充满了支点的故事，讲述了一家初创公司在2011年夏天竞争Y Combinator演示日的荣耀。

《名利场》：兰德尔·斯特劳斯——谁想成为亿万富翁？

"We pivoted the idea a little bit," says one Kalvin—Jason Shen in this case, but in the eyes of the Y.C. partners, the finalists are a blurry succession of faces without names. "We’re going to be the Mint.com for photo books. We organize and rank your Facebook content, allowing you to easily create a printed photo book, featuring the best photos of you, your friends."

论宇宙

Mat Honan与一位名叫Co**o the God的15岁黑客交谈，讲述了他和UgNazis如何劫持4Chan的DNS，刷信用卡，以及在亚马逊、贝宝、Netflix和AOL上发现巨大的安全漏洞。

连线：Mat Honan-Co**o，坠落地球的黑客“上帝”

As he did with Prince and CloudFlare, Co**o accomplished many of his feats by going after individuals associated with organizati*** UG Nazi was targeting. He would gather little bits of information here and there, collecting dox data from various online services, like addresses and credit card numbers, until he had what he needed to launch an attack. Often, he did that by calling a company’s tech support system and pretending to be a worker in another department. Sometimes he was able to pull that off by learning intimate details of a company’s back-end systems.

论《白色奇迹》

埃里克·哈维回忆起早在激流和Mediafire之前就存在的地下音乐盗版和泄露场景。

干草叉：埃里克哈维-鲍勃迪伦的伟大的白色奇迹：世界上第一张专辑泄漏的故事

Fans had been trading magnetic tapes of already-released albums for years by this point, but Wonder was different: It was the first time that unheard recordings of a superstar’s new compositi*** had leaked to the public, and were being sold. It’s easy to take such a thing for granted today, when leaks circulate freely online, but Wonder represented the earliest moment when advancing technologies combined with popular demand and illicit entrepreneurship to create cracks in the record industry’s otherwise firm facade.

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