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。

论基调

内森格雷森批评E3的超暴力没有任何背景主题演讲。

石头，纸张，**：内森·格雷森-E3零日：当游戏暴力变得卑鄙

This was the blaring exclamation point on the end of a day of gleefully grotesque neck-shanking, leg-severing, and – of course – man-shooting. I can honestly think of maybe five games – in four multiple-hour press conferences – that didn’t feature some sort of lovingly rendered death-dealing mechanic. And oh how show-goers cheered.

论牛顿

在今年的WWDC前夕，看看Harry McCracken在eBay帮助下对20年前的Apple Newton PDA进行的重新评估。这是汤姆霍姆比关于牛顿的完整历史。

泰克兰：哈里麦克拉肯-牛顿，重新考虑

There was certainly some Newton in the Pilot. And there’s an awful lot of Pilot in the iPhone 4S, the iPad and every Android device–starting wtth the home screen’s grid of ic*** and the way apps run in full-screen mode. Had Apple followed Palm’s path–**aller, simpler, cheaper–it might have made all the difference. Read more here

注意

johnherrman分析了他典型的日常在线互动，发现这种平衡从根本上说是对输入的权衡，而不是对输出的权衡。

转发：约翰赫尔曼-科技是如何把我们都变成神经病

I’m never not looking sideways at what I’m doing, never not pulled to look at something else, never not reacting to whatever I’ve paused on.

关于雷·布拉德伯里

作家雷·布拉德伯里上周二去世，许多作家讨论了他对他们作品的影响。这里有一个样本：不要错过尼尔·盖曼或朱诺·迪亚兹的回忆，以及乌苏拉·K·勒金、列夫·格罗斯曼、格雷格·贝尔等的有线总结笔记。同样值得一读的还有《巴黎评论》对布拉德伯里的小说艺术访谈：

Everything went into ferment that one year, 1932, when I was twelve. There was Poe, Carter, Burroughs, the comics. I listened to a lot of imaginative radio shows, especially one called Chandu the Magician. I’m sure it was quite junky, but not to me. Every night when the show went off the air I sat down and, from memory, wrote out the whole script. I couldn’t help myself. Chandu was against all the villains of the world and so was I. He responded to a psychic summ*** and so did I.

论外星人

影评人格伦·肯尼回顾了三十年，回忆起他第一次看《外星人》。

一些人跑了过来：格伦肯尼-一个19岁的**第一次看到“外星人”。

The evolution of home video was one of the factors that turned Alien into an enduring classic rather than a sleeper hit. The respect it was accorded by subsequent acquaintances who clearly knew better than I did was also influential. For instance, Michael Weldon in the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film: "Of course it's an expensive B-movie, but it's also fascinating, well-made, and the scariest science-fiction film in ages."

这个周末能赶上普罗米修斯吗？深入了解（警告：破坏者）T3的采访雷德利斯科特和达蒙林德洛夫，另一个来自伦敦电影网从阿德里安·博特的角度对影片的象征意义进行了创造性的分析。当你在那里的时候，跳到论坛（当然是破坏者）和谈论空间骑师。

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