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。

論舊金山

大衛·塔爾博特（David Talbot）是舊金山沙龍的創始人、前執行長、編輯兼執行長，他報道了舊金山與世隔絕的科技精英的成長，這些精英影響著舊金山從房地產到當地餐館的方方面面。

舊金山雜誌：大衛·塔爾伯特-一個城市能接受多少科技？

Is San Francisco’s high-tech workforce too cocooned from the cultural life of the city? Karen Wickre, the editorial director of Twitter, wrestles with this question one recent afternoon, when I visit her at the company’s headquarters. The Twitter offices seem to float in the sky above the squalid urban turf below, where the raw life of the Tenderloin spills onto Market Street. Not only do Twitter employees work in the clouds, high above the rough street bustle below, but some don’t even have to rub elbows with other San Franciscans on Muni. They can avoid the teeming masses by hopping aboard an exclusive shuttle that the Shorenstein Realty Company—owner of the Twitter building—runs between the Caltrain station and their mid-Market destination.

關於“傑森一家”

傑森一家今天慶祝了50歲生日，馬特·諾瓦克（Matt Novak）則關註著這部劇經久不衰的遺產。

古未來：馬特·諾瓦克——傑特森家族的50年：為什麼這個節目仍然重要

If ”The Jets***” is so important and resonated with so many viewers, then why was the show canceled after just one season? I’ve spoken to a number of different people about this, but I haven’t heard anyone mention what I believe to be the most likely reason that “The Jets***” wasn’t renewed for a second season: color. Or, more accurately, a lack of color. ”The Jets***” was produced and broadcast in color, but in 1962 less than 3 percent of American households had a color television set. In fact, it wasn’t until 1972 that 50 percent of American households had a color TV.

關於紋身

傑克·斯圖夫（jackstuef）寫了一篇關於“人類廣告牌”（human billboards）的文章，這些廣告牌為了網路營銷噱頭而****的面板。

轉發：傑克·斯圖夫-終身品牌

Dot-com “skinvertising” — a term somebody came up with when it was still a thing — was a media sensation in the mid-2000s. In 2003, the first advertising space of this kind was sold on the back of the head of an Illinois man named Jim Nelson. A Web hosting company then known as CI Host paid $7,000 for the space. Nelson signed a contract stating that he would keep the tattoo for at least five years.

在larp上

保羅·格雷厄姆·瑞文（Paul Graham Raven）追溯了真人角色扮演遊戲的演變及其許多場景和風格。

根狀莖：保羅格雷厄姆烏鴉-這是一個遊戲：一個（非常）Larp的簡史第1部分

There's a possible Patient Zero in the imaginary planet of Atzor, an early proto-larp described in a Life article in 1941 which at the time of writing boasted ten 'lands' or countries wherein conflicts were decided with tabletop wargames of vast and involving complexity. But it's Brian Wiese's 'Hobbit War' of 1977 that represents the likely apotheosis of 'boffer' larp, familiar from the pop-cultural stereotype: Ren Fair rejects, running around in the woods with padded weap***.

關於創始人

史蒂文·約翰遜在關於誰發明瞭網際網路、企業還是**的爭論中滔滔不絕。

****：史蒂文·約翰遜-網際網路？我們造的

When we talk about change being driven by mass collaboration, it’s often in the form of protest movements: civil rights or marriage equality. That’s a tradition worth celebrating, but it’s only part of the story. The Internet (and all the other achievements of peer networks) is not a story about changing people’s attitudes or widening the range of human tolerance. It’s a story, instead, about a different kind of organization, neither state nor market, that actually builds things, creating new tools that in turn enhance the way states and markets work.

在網際網路上

在一個漫長的週五下午，大衛羅斯幾乎抓住了網際網路的本質。

經典：大衛·羅斯-這是你的鯊魚指點圖。你自己想辦法。

And because it's a strange place to live: if the internet is like anything besides itself, it's something like that sprawling garbage gyre in the desolate middle of the Pacific Ocean, where garbage becomes entangled with other garbage to form a bright, rotting submerged continent, and where toxic things we made slowly break down and make their way back up the food chain and into our bodies and minds. That's not a good thing, mostly, but on the other hand, if you want to see a Korean commercial in which Robocop comes out of a television and chows down on some fried chicken, the internet is right there.

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