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。

在facebook上

Alexis Madrigal认为，是时候让初创企业换一种思路了。每个人都想建立下一个Facebook或Twitter，同时使用徽章和“利用你的社交图”，但缺少的是真正的创新和真正的发明。我们有工具，马德里加尔说，我们需要给他们一些新的东西做。

大西洋：亚历克西斯·马德里加尔-吉格舞开始了：是时候超越Facebook，创造一个新的未来了

Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet." Fifteen years ago, it was, "Build the Web." Five years ago, the answers were probably, "Build the social network" or "Build the mobile web." And it was in around that time in 2007 that Facebook emerged as the social networking leader, Twitter got known at SXSW, and we saw the release of the first Kindle and the first iPhone. There are a lot of new phones that look like the iPhone, plenty of e-readers that look like the Kindle, and countless social networks that look like Facebook and Twitter. In other words, we can cross that task off the list. It happened.

在无人机上

迈克尔·黑斯廷斯（Michael Hastings）观察了五角大楼拥有1.9万架无人机的舰队，以及它如何改变美国作战、实施监视、执行重要而敏感的任务的方式——所有这些都不需要一个人在场。

滚石：迈克尔·黑斯廷斯——**无人机的崛起：美国如何秘密开战

Over the past decade, the military has tested a wide variety of unmanned aircraft – from microdrones that run on tiny batteries to those with 200-foot wingspans, powered by jet fuel or solar energy. The drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan – the Predator and the Reaper – look like large model planes and cost $13 million apiece. A drone the size of a 727, the Global Hawk, was used after the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in Haiti to provide rescue operati*** with a bird's-eye view of the disasters. One of the largest drones in development today is the SolarEagle, designed by Boeing and DARPA, the experimental research wing of the Defense Department. With a wingspan of more than 400 feet, the SolarEagle will be able to stay in the air for five years at a time, essentially replacing surveillance satellites, which are costly to put into orbit.

史蒂夫·乔布斯在苹果之外的岁月

布伦特·施伦德在史蒂夫·乔布斯的一生和职业生涯中多次采访他。现在，施伦德回顾了他们的讨论录音，找出乔布斯在苹果任职期间的11年里做了什么，他变成了谁。

快速公司：布伦特施伦德-失去史蒂夫乔布斯磁带

Steve Jobs did not wander aimlessly into the wilderness after being ousted from Apple in 1985. No happy camper, he was loaded for bear; burning to wreak revenge upon those who had spuriously shoved him into exile, and obsessed with proving to the world that he was no one-trick pony. Within days, he abruptly sold off all but one share of his Apple stock and, flush with a **all fortune of about $70 million, set about creating another computer company, this one called NeXT. The startup ostensibly was a vehicle for revolutionizing higher education with powerful, beautiful computers. In reality, it was a bet that one day he would get the better of Apple.

关于fez

即使游戏图形不断改进，独立开发者社区仍在继续开发复古的、基于像素的游戏，这些游戏可以让人回忆起90年代的游戏和系统。西蒙·帕金从这个角度看了看费兹，看到了一种反作用。

HookShot公司：西蒙·帕金·费兹与像素之死

Nevertheless, Fez feels like something of a full stop to the pixel art homage movement. What started out as a rebellion has become a cliché and, while Fez is too **art and assured in its own identity to slip into cliché, it feels as though this default fashion has run its course.As new generation of indie game makers rises, one born in the 90s whose formative game experiences were found on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64, one wonders where the next underground aesthetic in games is headed.

在飞行中

如果你在过去的几年里坐过飞机，你可能会同意Kip Hawley的论点，即机场安检是难以置信的技术和优化，而且破败不堪。这位前交通安全管理局局长清楚地介绍了该系统目前的运行情况，并提出了一些简单的改进方法。

《华尔街日报》：基普·霍利——机场安检为何被破坏以及如何修复

As a confidence boost, Gary gave me a series of images with guns and knives in various positi***. Knives lying flat were giveaways, but when viewed lengthwise, they had very little visible surface. Explosives were a whole different story. A plastic explosive like C4 is organic and dense. It appears as a heavy orange mass. Unfortunately, a block of cheddar cheese looks roughly the same. As we started testing with a moving scanner, Gary warned me that too many false positives would be a big problem. A "hair-trigger" strategy would get me flunked. Images with guns took about one second to identify. Clear bags took roughly five seconds to double check for blade edges. It was cluttered bags—with their multihued oranges, blues, greens and grays jumbled together—that were the killers.

论音乐写作

听音乐不再是一个孤立的过程。我们不断地分享我们所听的，并且无限地写下我们对它的感受——这是如何改变我们对音乐的体验的？

干草叉：马克·理查森-如果你喜欢别人的音乐，就跟着他们

In the online circles in which I travel, there have been three big waves of music writing this year-- one about Grimes, one about Fiona Apple, and one about Nicki Minaj. With Minaj's new album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, it felt like everyone had to have an opinion, and my favorite music writers were all elbowing each other to get to the front of the line with their review or thinkpiece. And while I'm impressed by a handful of songs from Roman Reloaded and will return to at least two ("Beez in the Trap" and "Come on a Cone") regularly, if I'm honest, I've enjoyed reading about the record much more than listening to it.

关于nathan myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold是微软的前首席技术官，创办了一家被称为专利巨魔的公司，并撰写了一本2400页的烹饪书，名为《现代烹饪》。哦，他家里还有一具霸王龙的骨架。乔哈根跟踪迈尔沃德和他的许多兴趣。

《男人日报》：乔·哈根-极客如何烤汉堡

In 1991, Myhrvold predicted the emergence of the iPhone down to the **allest detail, describing a "digital wallet" that would c***olidate all personal communication — telephone, schedule manager, notepad, contacts, and a library of music and books, all in one. It would record and archive everything you asked it to, he surmised. "The cost will not be very high," he wrote. "It is pretty easy to imagine a $400 to $1,000 retail price." Microsoft, however, was too cost c***cious and risk averse to execute Myhrvold’s vision.

关于外星人

电影，不是外星生物。从1992年起，詹姆斯·卡梅隆就开始回应批评他的电影。

星际杂志：詹姆斯·卡梅隆——詹姆斯·卡梅隆对外星人批评的回应

Please bear in mind the difficulty of communicating a life cycle this complex to a mass audience, which, seven years later, may barely recall that there was an Alien in ALIEN, let alone the specifics of its physical development. I had a great deal of story to tell, and a thorough re-education would have relegated ALIENS to a pedantic reprise of Ridley Scott's film. The audience seems to have a deepseated faith in the Aliens' basic nastiness and drive to reproduce which requires little logical rationale. That leaves only ******** fans such as myself and a majority of this readership to ponder the technical specifics and c***truct a plausible scenario.

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