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。

關於k-pop

約翰·西布魯克（johnseabrook）深入瞭解了K-pop的世界，這讓人奇怪地想起了經典的美國流行音樂工廠，比如Berry Gordy的Motown。

《紐約客》：約翰·西布魯克——工廠女孩

In addition to singing and dancing, the idols study acting and foreign languages—Japanese, Chinese, and English. They also receive media coaching and are readied for the intense scrutiny they will receive on the Internet from the "netizens" of Korea, the most wired country on earth. ("Netizens Love Seohyun’s Aegyo Mark" declared a recent headline from the K-pop Web site Soompi, regarding the **all beauty dot to the left of the singer’s eye.) Unless you’re the Jonas Brothers or Taylor Swift, public drunkenness, brawling, and serial mi**ehavior can often enhance an artist’s reputation in the American pop scene; in Korea, a rumored sex tape or a positive test for marijuana can derail a career.

在tumblr上

Brittany Julious寫了Tumblr的生產、消費的混合體，以及它是如何定義使用者的。

這段錄音：布列塔尼朱利葉斯-自我的發揮

For myself, the c***umer and blogger and Tumblr user, the art became less the art and more the sort of tangible object I use to define who I am on a daily basis. The photographs by Ekberg were as much me as my collection of rings, my beaded blouses, or my heels. The truth is ugly and self-centered, but true. The more I see, the more I take on and c***ume as me and only me.

論自我

伊桑·卡普蘭寫了一篇感人肺腑的文章，講述了虛擬與現實不可避免的融合。

道德亭裡面：伊桑·卡普蘭——短暫的停頓

Last Thursday I was in a meeting and opened Facebook on my phone and saw that this little boy had passed away two days prior. My heart stopped and for a second I couldn’t breathe. I tapped through to the profile that posted it, and was confronted by the fissure between two posts prior and this one. A **ile and a tragedy.

論散居

亞歷克·劉講述了“臉譜**”散居的歷史。

主機板：Alec Liu-Facebook**怎麼了？這很複雜

"For some strange reason, everyone just agreed with this whole privacy thing," Dan said at the time. "Facebook Killer!" was the battle cry heard around the ‘net, a real-life story of David versus Goliath. Powerful technology investors like Fred Wilson contributed to the cause. Al Gore phoned in to let the boys know that they were fighting the good fight."

論遊戲

布拉德·普盧默與經濟學家Eyj交談ó古爾夫ð他在大型多人線上遊戲Eve online中負責監管經濟。

部落格：布拉德·普盧默——電子游戲的經濟學

Nowadays, many massively multiplayer online video games have become so complex that game companies are turning to economists for help. Without oversight, the games’ economies can go badly awry — as when a gambling ban triggered a virtual bank run in the online world of Second Life in 2007, with one bank alone costing players $750,000 in real-life money.

在行李牌上

馬克·範霍納克（markvanhoenacker）看著這張低矮的行李牌背後的出生和歷史。

斯萊特：馬克·範霍納克——航空公司行李牌的美

The modern tag is known as an automated baggage tag, and was first tried by many airlines in the early 1990s. Perhaps the earliest airline to implement ABTs system-wide was United, in 1992, according to Jon Barrere, a spokesperson for Print-O-Tape, a tag manufacturer and United’s partner on the project. Let’s examine in detail the myriad improvements offered by the ABT, which symbolize as perfectly as anything air travel’s transition from a rare luxury for the ultra-rich to safe, effective transport for a shrinking planet.

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