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。

在跳躍中

布萊恩·菲利普斯考慮了費利克斯·鮑姆加特納上週的跳遠，回顧了跳遠和大特技的悠久歷史。

格蘭特蘭：布萊恩·菲利普斯-一小步

Close to the camera, he looked larger than life, and artificially safe in his high-tech space suit — the sort of costume, after all, that you associate with zero-g and Strauss waltzes and astronauts floating upside down, the whole silly routine of weightlessness. Now suddenly he's plunging helplessly away from you and you realize that gravity is indeed in effect. Two seconds into the fall, he's a white dot against the planet. Six seconds in, he's invisible. Again, Baumgartner fell with no parachute for four minutes and 20 seconds.

論危險

《危險》的參賽者和獲勝者格倫·弗萊什曼解釋了參加世界上最受歡迎的智力競賽節目的感覺。

波昂波昂：格倫弗萊什曼-在危險中是什麼感覺

The actual game play goes by faster than you can remember it happening. Clues come up an average of one every 12 seconds. If played well, you enter a sort of fugue state in which the board and Alex's voice and the signaling button in your hand are all that you hear, see, and feel.

關於傑克·多西

埃裡克·薩維茨（ericsavitz）介紹了Twitter和Square聯合創始人傑克·多西（jackdorsey）以及他的舊金山漫遊。

福布斯：埃裡克·薩維茨-傑克·多西：推特和廣場的領導祕密

Before he cocreated two of the five hottest pre-IPO tech companies on the planet, Dorsey gave little sign of brilliant focus. He wrote dispatch software for ambulances and cop cars, dropped out of college (twice), took up botanical drawing, became a certified masseur and, later, dabbled in fashion design.

在月球上

NPR的羅伯特克魯裡奇建議我們停止追逐月球。

克魯裡奇想知道：羅伯特·克魯裡奇-對月亮好一點。別在上面寫了

All over the world, ham radio operators and Morse code enthusiasts beam dot, dash messages straight at the moon, then wait 2.7 seconds for the signal to bounce back. They call these "E.M.E." tran**issi***, which stands for "Earth-Moon-Earth" or — more popularly — "moonbouncing." I suppose it's fun to **ack little beeps against a sleepy rock 239,000 miles away and have those beeps come flying back at you. Plus, it's easy.

在錶面上

馬特·布坎南（mattbuchanan）深入探討了為什麼Surface可能是微軟的成敗產品。

轉發：馬特布坎南-為什麼微軟的平板電腦不能失敗

And Surface may indeed have some priceless magic in it. But the question, ultimately, is whether Microsoft can get people to pay a price for that magic. There’s a giant shadow looming over the launch of Surface and Windows 8: Windows Phone.

關於“黑色洛杉磯”

克裡斯·唐蘭把他的祖父介紹給了洛杉磯黑衣人，回憶起他40年代在洛杉磯當軍官的生活。

Eurogamer.net：Chris Donlan-夜晚與城市

On the drive, dad kept up a low-level muttering trail of recollecti*** and fiercely specific critiques: the lamps on this bridge were right, but the large dumpsters in alleyways weren’t like anything he remembered seeing; a gas station’s Coke machine was just perfect, but little skirtings of exposed brickwork around the low walls of vacant lots ‘didn’t seem very Californian’; this was meant to be 1947? Why was that a 1950 Chevy, then? When we finally turned onto 6th, though, he suddenly stopped talking.

在場館

Reeves Wiedman以紐約新巴克萊中心的開業為契機，思考智慧**迫使體育場館重新思考設計的新方式。

《紐約客》：裡夫斯·維德曼-網隊來了

The glowing **artphones are a symbol of what the Barclays Center, and all sporting venues, are fighting against: the increasing difficulty of keeping people actually focussed on the court. Given what it costs to attend, fewer people want to go to games. As a result, venue design has adapted to the fact that going to a sporting event is decreasingly about the act of watching the actual event in question.

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