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。

伊隆·馬斯克

艾什莉·萬斯介紹了喬恩·法夫羅的鐵人電影《伊隆·馬斯克》的靈感來源。

商業週刊：阿什莉·萬斯-埃隆·馬斯克，21世紀的實業家

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的影片裡

卡麗娜·朗沃斯（Karina Longworth）探索傳奇紐約市出租商店Mondo Kim's的歷史。

鄉村之聲：卡麗娜·朗沃斯——金某影片的奇怪命運

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.

做模擬人生

本馬庫奇討論了一個理論，即我們都生活在一個模擬與美國宇航局的豐富特裡。

副：本馬庫奇-哇，夥計，我們現在在電腦裡嗎？

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.

關於y組合子

Randall Stross記錄了一句很重的口號，“我們是你所知道的成功的初創公司”，這是一個充滿了支點的故事，講述了一家初創公司在2011年夏天競爭Y Combinator演示日的榮耀。

《名利場》：蘭德爾·斯特勞斯——誰想成為億萬富翁？

"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."

論宇宙

Mat Honan與一位名叫Co**o the God的15歲駭客交談，講述了他和UgNazis如何劫持4Chan的DNS，刷信用卡，以及在亞馬遜、貝寶、Netflix和AOL上發現巨大的安全漏洞。

連線：Mat Honan-Co**o，墜落地球的駭客“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.

論《白色奇跡》

埃裡克·哈維回憶起早在激流和Mediafire之前就存在的地下音樂盜版和洩露場景。

乾草叉：埃裡克哈維-鮑勃迪倫的偉大的白色奇跡：世界上第一張專輯洩漏的故事

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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