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。

把这些故事作为阅读列表。

关于星球大战

布莱恩·菲利普斯（Brian Phillips）讲述了自己在《星球大战》中度过的童年时光，谈到了即将上映的迪斯尼续集所面临的自我意识和取悦影迷的问题。

格兰特兰：布莱恩·菲利普斯-绝地归来

There's no moment when a genre convention is fulfilled, or subverted, and the filmmakers insert a little quip or beat or one-liner to let us know they're in on the joke. The second Star Wars trilogy, the prequels, is particularly bad about telegraphing its awareness of our awareness of the first Star Wars trilogy; there's so much stuff (Boba Fett's backstory!) that only remotely matters because of held-over feelings from the first three movies.

论选择

迈克·斯皮斯思考了在Rdio和Spotify的即时满足时代，音乐发现和欣赏是如何发生变化的。谢谢，西蒙·雷诺兹。

《纽约客》：迈克·斯皮斯-斯波提夫及其不满

We seem to have created an environment in which wonderful music, newly discovered, is difficult to treasure. For treasures, as the fugitive sale**an in the flea market was implying, are hard to come by—you have to work to find them. And the function of fugitive sale**en is to slow the endless deluge, drawing our attention to one album at a time, creating demand not for what we need to survive but for what we yearn for.

论名人订婚

布鲁克斯·巴恩斯（Brooks Barnes）深入调查了一家公司，这些公司背后有杰克·布莱克（Jack Black）、休·杰克曼（Hugh Jackman）、埃迪·墨菲（Eddie Murphy）等名人的在线形象。

****：布鲁克斯·巴恩斯-A-Listers，认识你的在线扩音器

To agents, the metrics of theAudience offer crucial leverage: If you cast Ms. Theron in a movie, she comes with an ability to fill seats through her social network, and we can prove it with data. Oh, and she needs to be paid more because of that. The same leverage holds true for sealing endorsement deals, which is where celebrities, and their agency backers, increasingly make their real money.

论事实核查

大卫·卡尔（davidcarr）关注了在线事实核查“家庭手工业”的发展及其在今年选举期间的成效——或缺乏成效。

****：大卫卡尔-最后一个事实检查：它没有工作

Half-truths are now fully baked into political discourse and the public is inured to the growing forest of fibs, but people certainly seem to like watching the fact-check spanking machine at full speed. Fact checking, as it turns out, is more of a cottage industry than a civic corrective.

论政治

如果你上周错过了，看看亚历克斯·帕雷尼对政治崛起的评论

困惑者：亚历克斯·帕雷尼-来吧，感受一下嗡嗡声

In debuting a minute-by-minute chronicle of the permanent campaign by, for, and about terminal Hill insiders, VandeHei and Harris went all in on the enabling fiction that the seamiest features of human nature—which would find full expression in Politico’s quest to discredit rivals, to distort simple political aims and ideas with drive-by caricatures, and to float personality-based digital memes across the gossip-driven agoras of social media—were themselves somehow news, and therefore newsworthy.

上电

在飓风桑迪和整个东北地区的大面积停电之后，提姆·吴强调了一个基于互联网理念的替代系统。

新共和国：吴国权终于回到了曼哈顿。下面是如何确保它再也不会熄灭

There's a better system. It goes by various names, including "microgrid" and "distributed generating." The basic idea is to make the electric network more like the Internet. If well implemented, a better topology would make power failures less likely, and shorter when they happen. The key is to decentralize: to turn a regional electric network into a network of **aller, neighborhood networks, that no single points of failure, so no one substation can take down half a million homes.

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