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。

論勞裡·斯皮格爾

作家西蒙·雷諾茲（simonreynolds），你可能從他最近的復古狂中瞭解到，他描述了勞裡·斯皮爾格爾（lauriespiegel），這位開創性的電子音樂家，在70年代和80年代推動了計算機音樂的發展。

Pitchfork:Simon Reynolds——常駐觀眾：勞裡·斯皮格爾的機器音樂

"In a low information lifestyle, the ratio between incoming stuff and time spent processing inputs was completely different to how it is today. When I was a kid, I didn't watch much TV. For a long while, until I saved up and bought myself a transistor, I didn't have control of a radio. So I spent a lot of time thinking. Now we get very little time to synthesize and process relative to the amount of information coming in to us. That's a major cognitive change in terms of how people experience life."

論個人資訊學

在被診斷出患有糖尿病後，丹-韓潛入了FitBits、FuelBands和Withings的世界，以改善他的血糖水平，記錄沿途的體驗、介面和裝置。

domus:Dan Hon-設計健身

But I saw that I was faced with a body that was in bad shape because of the "software" that was running on its brain. There is a movement — at the moment a weak signal among "alpha geeks" predisposed to obsessive tendencies — preoccupied with measuring and quantifying the self. The idea itself isn't new: notice and measure things about your "software" and your "hardware" and then try to affect them. But as ever, technology trickles down to the c***umer and makes what used to be difficult easy, and what was once obscure accessible.

論建築學

安東尼帕萊塔介紹了東方集團的超凡脫俗建築。

錐子：安東尼帕萊塔-崇高的科幻建築，****建立

"Anyone's first trip to New York always comes with a feeling of déjà vu, as if one were walking onto the set of a movie seen a hundred times. In contrast, there are vestiges of the Soviet Union that seem like backdrops to movies that never hit the screen, because they were never made." This, if it seems possible, decidedly understates the visual impact of the architectural legacy of the later decades of the Soviet Union and associated states. Eastern Sci-Fi cinema, as superb as its product and settings often were, clearly neglected the treasures in its own backyard.

在googlereader上

羅布·菲什曼（robfishman）寫的是RSS的早期，googlereader的誕生，以及圍繞RSS建立的社群的興衰，隨著Google的崛起，這個社群“幾次按鍵”就被毀掉了+

轉發：羅伯菲什曼-谷歌失去的社交網路

Someone hung a sign in the Reader offices that said "DAYS SINCE LAST THREAT OF CANCELLATION." The number was almost always zero. At the same time, user growth — while **all next to Gmail’s hundreds of milli*** — more than doubled under Shih’s tenure. But the "senior types," as Bilotta remembers, "would look at absolute user numbers. They wouldn’t look at market saturation. So Reader was c***tantly on the chopping block."

關於傑裡米·哈蒙德

最後，珍妮特·雷特曼在網上完整地描述了聯邦調查局是如何追蹤並逮捕匿名成員、駭客和無**主義者傑裡米·哈蒙德的。

滾石：珍妮特·雷特曼——傑裡米·哈蒙德的興衰：國家的敵人

From an early age, Jeremy was c***umed by projects in which he could lose himself. In Little League, he created a virtually unhittable pitch, and by the time he was nine, he was finding innovative ways to make computers do what they weren't supposed to do – the essence of hacking. At 16, he hacked the computers at a local Apple store, projecting their financial data on every screen, after which he proceeded to explain to the experts at the Genius Bar how to better protect their information. "The look on their faces was priceless," his father recalls.

關於克裡斯休斯

卡爾·斯旺森介紹了29歲的克裡斯·休斯，他是Facebook的聯合創始人和百萬富翁，正試圖振興新共和國。

紐約：作家克裡斯休斯即將年滿100歲

"I look at Twitter once a day, maybe twice," he says. "I look at Facebook quite a bit, because for me there’s more stuff happening. But Twitter—so many people have TweetDeck in the background," he moti*** around his newsroom overlooking Madison Square Park. "I realize that I purposely want to keep a distance between me and that." He is always trying to schedule time for reflection. The New Republic "means not just producing a magazine," he says. "We have to be convening conversati***."

石英：Zachary M。蘇厄德-美國線上的歷史，透過****縱橫字謎線索告訴

最後，這裡是一個精闢的，令人驚訝的變化，美國線上的歷史，透過時代的縱橫字謎鏡頭看到。

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