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。

論創造生命

威爾希爾頓介紹了科學家克雷格文特和他的努力，創造生物機械，可以用於從創造蛋白質到塑膠的一切。

****：威爾斯。海爾頓-克雷格·文特’蟲子也許能拯救世界

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

羅賓斯隆（robinsloan）對Facebook和谷歌看待世界的方式有了新的認識。

羅賓斯蘭網：羅賓斯隆-圖片與視覺

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.

黃金時代

本週的《紐約客》— 塞滿了科森·懷特黑德的科幻小說，朱諾·Díaz等— 威廉·吉布森回憶起他在50年代和60年代閱讀和探索科幻小說的成長歲月。

《紐約客》：威廉吉布森-奧爾茲火箭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.

關於喜歡

顯然，喜歡並不總是喜歡。

《****》：Somini Sengupta——在Facebook上，“喜歡”成了廣告

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講述了Reddit公司的創世故事。

克裡斯汀·拉戈裡奧——亞歷克西斯·奧哈尼安是如何建立網際網路頭版的

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.

論策劃

唱詩班西夏在網上又一輪“策展”

錐：唱詩班西夏-你不是館長，你實際上只是一個骯髒的部落格

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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