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。

谈网上约会

艾米莉·维特探索了网络约会的历史，并写下了她自己的经历。

伦敦书评：艾米莉·维特日记

I went to a lecture by the novelist Ned Beauman who compared the OK Cupid experience to Carl Sagan pondering the limits of our ability even to imagine non-carbon-based extraterrestrial life, let alone perceive when it was beaming signals to us. We troll on OK Cupid for what we think we want, but what if we are incapable of seeing the signals being sent to us, let alone interpreting them?

在尖叫声中

伊丽莎白洛帕托通过埃德瓦尔德芒克的绘画来思考数字艺术和生活。

锥子：伊丽莎白洛帕托-“尖叫”在MoMA在寒冷的数字时代

What is sobering about the internet is not that it’s isolating per se—I find it attractive precisely because it’s got people on it—but that it feels less satisfying than in-person interacti***. This much the critics have right. What they don’t have right is why.

在art.sy

杰森·法拉戈探究原因Art.sy 不仅仅是定制音乐流媒体网站Pandora的艺术版，为什么在线销售艺术如此困难。

新共和国：杰森·法拉戈-Art.sy 以及网上艺术品市场的神话

There’s simply no possibility of a viral digital success—a "Call Me Maybe" of painting or photography—because a work only becomes successful upon its art world approbation. And that can’t be di**antled, not unless you also feel like di**antling the entire critical apparatus of contemporary art and, while you’re at it, destroying billi*** of dollars stored in chemicals on stretched pieces of canvas.

论模因

阿曼达·赫斯关注着竞选过程中每一个举动所产生的疯狂的政治模因。同样，看看内森·朱根森在新调查中的发言。

波因特：阿曼达赫斯-充满大鸟的活页夹：风险&amp；报道模因的好处

The meme devolved from there. Romney’s critics have since used "binders" to mount vaguely related personal attacks against the candidate, including the suggestion that he’s a horndog. (Of the feminist critiques leveled against Romney, a history of sexual haras**ent is not one). Other entries are even less substantive. What relevance does the pop song "Call Me Maybe" or a years-old upskirt photo of Britney Spears to this meme? At a certain point, the feeling fueling the meme gave way to Trapper Keeper free-association. Not only does the meme make no sense as a political critique at this point — it isn’t funny anymore, either.

早期手势界面

在GIFs和YouTube的帮助下，根茎潜入了实验性的、运动前手势技术的历史。

根茎：假肢知识-假肢知识精选：Kinect系谱-手势接口简史

Perhaps one of the earliest pioneers of this ****og computer animation approach was Lee Harrison III. In the early 1960s, he experimented with animating figures using ****og circuits and a cathode ray tube. Ahead of his time, he rigged up a body suit with potentiometers and created the first working motion capture rig, animating 3D figures in real-time on his CRT screen.

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