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。

在跳跃中

布莱恩·菲利普斯考虑了费利克斯·鲍姆加特纳上周的跳远，回顾了跳远和大特技的悠久历史。

格兰特兰：布莱恩·菲利普斯-一小步

Close to the camera, he looked larger than life, and artificially safe in his high-tech space suit — the sort of costume, after all, that you associate with zero-g and Strauss waltzes and astronauts floating upside down, the whole silly routine of weightlessness. Now suddenly he's plunging helplessly away from you and you realize that gravity is indeed in effect. Two seconds into the fall, he's a white dot against the planet. Six seconds in, he's invisible. Again, Baumgartner fell with no parachute for four minutes and 20 seconds.

论危险

《危险》的参赛者和获胜者格伦·弗莱什曼解释了参加世界上最受欢迎的智力竞赛节目的感觉。

波昂波昂：格伦弗莱什曼-在危险中是什么感觉

The actual game play goes by faster than you can remember it happening. Clues come up an average of one every 12 seconds. If played well, you enter a sort of fugue state in which the board and Alex's voice and the signaling button in your hand are all that you hear, see, and feel.

关于杰克·多西

埃里克·萨维茨（ericsavitz）介绍了Twitter和Square联合创始人杰克·多西（jackdorsey）以及他的旧金山漫游。

福布斯：埃里克·萨维茨-杰克·多西：推特和广场的领导秘密

Before he cocreated two of the five hottest pre-IPO tech companies on the planet, Dorsey gave little sign of brilliant focus. He wrote dispatch software for ambulances and cop cars, dropped out of college (twice), took up botanical drawing, became a certified masseur and, later, dabbled in fashion design.

在月球上

NPR的罗伯特克鲁里奇建议我们停止追逐月球。

克鲁里奇想知道：罗伯特·克鲁里奇-对月亮好一点。别在上面写了

All over the world, ham radio operators and Morse code enthusiasts beam dot, dash messages straight at the moon, then wait 2.7 seconds for the signal to bounce back. They call these "E.M.E." tran**issi***, which stands for "Earth-Moon-Earth" or — more popularly — "moonbouncing." I suppose it's fun to **ack little beeps against a sleepy rock 239,000 miles away and have those beeps come flying back at you. Plus, it's easy.

在表面上

马特·布坎南（mattbuchanan）深入探讨了为什么Surface可能是微软的成败产品。

转发：马特布坎南-为什么微软的平板电脑不能失败

And Surface may indeed have some priceless magic in it. But the question, ultimately, is whether Microsoft can get people to pay a price for that magic. There’s a giant shadow looming over the launch of Surface and Windows 8: Windows Phone.

关于“黑色洛杉矶”

克里斯·唐兰把他的祖父介绍给了洛杉矶黑衣人，回忆起他40年代在洛杉矶当军官的生活。

Eurogamer.net：Chris Donlan-夜晚与城市

On the drive, dad kept up a low-level muttering trail of recollecti*** and fiercely specific critiques: the lamps on this bridge were right, but the large dumpsters in alleyways weren’t like anything he remembered seeing; a gas station’s Coke machine was just perfect, but little skirtings of exposed brickwork around the low walls of vacant lots ‘didn’t seem very Californian’; this was meant to be 1947? Why was that a 1950 Chevy, then? When we finally turned onto 6th, though, he suddenly stopped talking.

在场馆

Reeves Wiedman以纽约新巴克莱中心的开业为契机，思考智能**迫使体育场馆重新思考设计的新方式。

《纽约客》：里夫斯·维德曼-网队来了

The glowing **artphones are a symbol of what the Barclays Center, and all sporting venues, are fighting against: the increasing difficulty of keeping people actually focussed on the court. Given what it costs to attend, fewer people want to go to games. As a result, venue design has adapted to the fact that going to a sporting event is decreasingly about the act of watching the actual event in question.

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