我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

斷開連線時

作家michaelstutz記得，在90年代中期，他整整一年都沒有上網。

逝去的局：邁克爾·斯圖茨——我失落的一年：斷絕與回歸的簡短回憶錄

Exactly in the middle of the 1990s, overnight and with no warning, I unplugged completely from the net. The action was as desperate as it was precisely literal — there was no wireless, no wi-fi, nothing portable; just a modem line plugged into the back of the machine. I pulled it out.

關於工作

《新共和國》3月15日的封面故事利用沃爾特·艾薩克森（Walter Isaacson）的史蒂夫·喬布斯（Steve Jobs）的作品，詳盡闡述了史蒂夫·喬布斯（Steve Jobs）的設計理念，以及它是如何塑造世界上最大的公司之一的。

新共和國：Evgeny Morozov-表格和財富（需要訂閱）

Just as we recognized many of the important civic functi*** of the sidewalk only after it had been replaced by the highway, so we may currently be blind to those virtues of the Internet — its inefficiency, its unpredictability, its disorder — that may ultimately produce a civic and aesthetic experience that is superior to the "automatic, effortless, and seamless" (one of Apple’s advertising slogans) world of the app.

騎馬

阿德里安·陳繼續約翰·赫爾曼的工作，追蹤@horse\u電子書背後的人。（擾流板）

蓋克：阿德里安陳-我是如何發現馬休電子書背後的人的，這是網際網路上最受歡迎的垃圾郵件

As Horse_ebooks has tweeted its way to fame, the human behind the account has remained an enigma. The most any one knew was the vaguely menacing fact that a Russian spammer named "Alexei" had supposedly set up Horse_ebooks. On the internet, that could mean anything. Who Alexei really was was a mystery, until now.

在github上

史泰博、威瑞森、微軟和Facebook使用GitHub儲存和跟蹤他們的程式碼，Wired對這家快速成長的初創公司進行了簡介。

連線：羅伯特·麥克米蘭-檔案之王：GitHub如何馴服自由軟體（以及更多）

GitHub’s geektastic 14,000-square-foot loft mirrors its mission: to democratize computer programming. GitHub.com is best thought of as Facebook for geeks. Instead of uploading videos of your cat, you upload software. Anyone can comment on your code and add to it and build it into something better. The trick is that it decentralizes programming, giving everyone a new kind of control.

論權威

蒂莫西·梅塞爾·克魯斯教授反對維基百科對真理的看法。

高等教育編年史：蒂莫西·梅塞爾·克魯斯——維基百科上真理的“過重分量”

Explain to me, then, how a ‘minority’ source with facts on its side would ever appear against a wrong ‘majority’ one?" I asked the Wiki-gatekeeper. He responded, "You’re more than welcome to discuss reliable sources here, that’s what the talk page is for. However, you might want to have a quick look at Wikipedia’s civility policy.

論壓縮

chrisfore**an關註蘋果iTunes音樂商店最佳化數字音訊的困難。

Ars technica:Chris Fore**an-為iTunes掌握：音訊工程師如何為iPod時代調整音樂

The problem? The AAC compression algorithm is "quite quirky." Without compressing a song, and carefully listening to it, then comparing to the uncompressed master, there's no way to predict how the sound will change. Vlado Meller, another engineer at Masterdisk, described mastering for iTunes "like polishing your Bentley in total darkness, then turning on the lights to see where you missed."

關於空間

梅根·加伯遵循馬歇爾·麥克盧漢的“我們塑造工具，然後工具塑造我們”的想法，考慮到我們的數字空間是如何影響我們的。。

《大西洋》：梅根·加伯——只想著你的**會讓你更加自私

The point being: Spaces matter. They don't merely contain us; they guide our behavior. And that goes for our digital surroundings, too: the environments we're building for ourselves, brick by portable brick, psychic spaces mortared and mediated by our cell phones and tablets. But what are those digital environments doing to us?

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