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。

把這些作為閱讀列表。

論遊戲

FWD的約翰赫爾曼採取了一個坦率，理性的看待影片遊戲中的暴力

轉發：約翰赫爾曼-不，讓我們談談影片遊戲暴力

All this is to say that while uninformed anti-game sensationali** may be unproductive, gamers’ reflexive defensiveness is worse. It’s prevented us from having a meaningful conversation about an industry that is emotionally and morally stunted, where per-title revenue can dwarf even the most successful films of all time but which seems immune from discussi*** of taste and artistic merit. A higher-up at one of the largest game publishers in the world once confided in me that when his bosses showed him early footage from a popular first-person shooter produced by another studio in the company, he couldn’t bring himself to watch to the end.

論hfr

導演兼攝影師Vincent LaForet描述了他在48幀和24幀中觀看霍位元人的經歷。

文森特拉弗雷特：文森特拉弗雷特-霍位元人：一個意想不到的大師課程為什麼HFR失敗，並重申什麼使電影神奇

In the opening hour of The Hobbit shown in 3D HFR – I don’t recall hearing a single sigh, or laugh. Not one. When I went to see the exact same seen with an audience of the same size on a 2D projection – I heard regular chuckles and laughter… why? Again more on that in a bit – but this was palpable and very interesting for me to witness. All of the jokes seemed to be falling flat or being missed in the HFR projection.

關於霍位元人

J。霍伯曼在彼得·傑克遜的最新作品中梳理出科技與託爾金之間的關係。

紐約書評部落格：J。Joberman-Tolkien與技術

Although lacking the visionary chutzpah and demented social energy that characterized the great pulp fantasies orchestrated by Fritz Lang in the 1920s, Jackson’s Ring trilogy was the greatest feat of pop movie magic between Titanic and Avatar. Not so The Hobbit which, less a movie than a promotion for its inevitable ancillary computer game, features endless digital battles predicated on space-warping virtual camera moves and chute-and-ladder sudden escapes. Reviewing the Ring trilogy in the mid 1950s, Edmund Wilson famously called it "a children’s book which has somehow got out of hand." The same could be said of The Hobbit. In this case, a children’s story got out of hand and morphed into Battlefield 3.

開玩笑

《每日秀》（Daily Show）的工作人員**（Fallon）、SNL等都在權衡在Twitter時代為電視寫笑話是什麼感覺。

Fastcocreate:paulmyers-Twitter會扼殺電視喜劇嗎？

Merrill Markoe, one of the pioneers behind the original Late Night with David Letterman program on NBC, says that she and her writers would have definitely made use of Twitter if they’d had it in the 1980s. "There was no c***tant stream of stuff available that we knew of that we didn’t use," Markoe recalls. "When your job is filling up five nights a week over and over again with funny things, you need a lot of straight resource material to play off. We were subscribing to all these **all-town papers and weird trade magazines. And on the positive side, we took cameras out in to the world a lot."

關於佐克

為了紀念經典文字冒險遊戲Zork的創作者獲得先鋒獎，Wired以可玩的互動冒險的形式進行了一次有趣的採訪。

連線：克裡斯科勒-文字冒險：佐克創作者榮獲先鋒獎

You are standing in an open field west of a white house. You can see a **all door and a mailbox (closed) here.

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