我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

关于**“疯狂”

汤姆·比塞尔参观了约翰·马登的加州人洞，探索传奇的体育特许经营权是如何形成的，以及它与我们如何体验“真正的”足球的奇怪关系。

格兰特兰：汤姆比塞尔-开球：疯狂的NFL和未来的电子游戏体育

"David Hill, the president of Fox Sports at the time, had a meeting with a bunch of us, and he said, 'What we want to do is make our game on television look like the video game.'" Hill didn't have to say which video game he was referring to. The visible lines of scrimmage floating beneath players' feet? The forward-pointing yardage arrows? This is visual language drawn directly from Madden. How professional football is played from year to year is reflected in Madden, and how Madden is experienced is reflected in how professional football is watched. That cannot really be said about any other sports-game franchise.

论尼尔·泰森

卡尔·齐默（Carl Zimmer）在本月的《****》（Playboy）中介绍了天体物理学家尼尔·德格拉斯·泰森（Neil deGrasse Tyson），追溯了他从在布朗克斯长大到即将翻拍的《宇宙》（Co**os）的历史，并探讨了泰森为振兴美国科学所做的努力。

卡尔·齐默：卡尔·齐默——宇宙之王（尼尔·泰森简介）

"Everything we know and love—electr***, prot***, neutr***, light, black holes, planets, stars, everything we know and understand—occupies four percent of the universe. Dark matter and dark energy is everything else. So we’re just dumb—stupid about what’s driving this co**os."

在三维上

更多并不总是更多，尤其是当涉及到将《了不起的盖茨比》改编成3D时——感谢巴兹·鲁尔曼——和塔内希西·科茨考虑电影技术的进步是否有助于捕捉F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的经典。

大西洋：塔尼希斯科茨-超大“伟大的盖茨比”

I think this starts in the right place. Whereas much of Hollywood's big-budget work is plot-centric, Gat**y's plot is thin, its love story b**** (that's the point,) and its magic rather subtle. It works marvelously on the level of character, and acting would have to be key. So I think Luhrmann has it right when he says the special effect is the actors.

论做品牌

苏珊娜回忆起自己在Facebook和Twitter上成为一个价值10亿美元品牌的无实体社交代言人的经历。

福布斯：苏珊娜·布雷斯林-我是Facebook的窃窃私语者

So, what was I good at? I had an undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journali** experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.

论心理学与设计

Facebook是如何利用行为经济学来吸引更多的广告客户的？看看不同的思维方式是如何整合到时间线设计中的。

杰夫·德尚博：杰夫·德尚博-行为经济学和facebook阴谋论

People recognize that advertising is about psychology, and the bible of psychological decision making was just published. Why wouldn’t these **art people try to use these new tools to make more money? Timeline is just awful, but these people are too **art and skilled to make something so bad accidentally.

论现代英雄

从麦克斯威尼的宝石完成：

麦克·斯威尼：迈克·拉彻——在这本书中，我修复了我女朋友的祖父母的WiFi，被誉为一个征服一切的英雄

The warrior closed his eyes, summoning the power of his ancestors, long departed but watchful still. And then with the echoing beep of his digital watch, he moved with deadly speed, wrapping his battle-hardened hands around the power cord at the back of the Router.

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