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。

把这些作为阅读列表。

论游戏

FWD的约翰赫尔曼采取了一个坦率，理性的看待视频游戏中的暴力

转发：约翰赫尔曼-不，让我们谈谈视频游戏暴力

All this is to say that while uninformed anti-game sensationali** may be unproductive, gamers’ reflexive defensiveness is worse. It’s prevented us from having a meaningful conversation about an industry that is emotionally and morally stunted, where per-title revenue can dwarf even the most successful films of all time but which seems immune from discussi*** of taste and artistic merit. A higher-up at one of the largest game publishers in the world once confided in me that when his bosses showed him early footage from a popular first-person shooter produced by another studio in the company, he couldn’t bring himself to watch to the end.

论hfr

导演兼摄影师Vincent LaForet描述了他在48帧和24帧中观看霍比特人的经历。

文森特拉弗雷特：文森特拉弗雷特-霍比特人：一个意想不到的大师课程为什么HFR失败，并重申什么使电影神奇

In the opening hour of The Hobbit shown in 3D HFR – I don’t recall hearing a single sigh, or laugh. Not one. When I went to see the exact same seen with an audience of the same size on a 2D projection – I heard regular chuckles and laughter… why? Again more on that in a bit – but this was palpable and very interesting for me to witness. All of the jokes seemed to be falling flat or being missed in the HFR projection.

关于霍比特人

J。霍伯曼在彼得·杰克逊的最新作品中梳理出科技与托尔金之间的关系。

纽约书评博客：J。Joberman-Tolkien与技术

Although lacking the visionary chutzpah and demented social energy that characterized the great pulp fantasies orchestrated by Fritz Lang in the 1920s, Jackson’s Ring trilogy was the greatest feat of pop movie magic between Titanic and Avatar. Not so The Hobbit which, less a movie than a promotion for its inevitable ancillary computer game, features endless digital battles predicated on space-warping virtual camera moves and chute-and-ladder sudden escapes. Reviewing the Ring trilogy in the mid 1950s, Edmund Wilson famously called it "a children’s book which has somehow got out of hand." The same could be said of The Hobbit. In this case, a children’s story got out of hand and morphed into Battlefield 3.

开玩笑

《每日秀》（Daily Show）的工作人员**（Fallon）、SNL等都在权衡在Twitter时代为电视写笑话是什么感觉。

Fastcocreate:paulmyers-Twitter会扼杀电视喜剧吗？

Merrill Markoe, one of the pioneers behind the original Late Night with David Letterman program on NBC, says that she and her writers would have definitely made use of Twitter if they’d had it in the 1980s. "There was no c***tant stream of stuff available that we knew of that we didn’t use," Markoe recalls. "When your job is filling up five nights a week over and over again with funny things, you need a lot of straight resource material to play off. We were subscribing to all these **all-town papers and weird trade magazines. And on the positive side, we took cameras out in to the world a lot."

关于佐克

为了纪念经典文本冒险游戏Zork的创作者获得先锋奖，Wired以可玩的互动冒险的形式进行了一次有趣的采访。

连线：克里斯科勒-文本冒险：佐克创作者荣获先锋奖

You are standing in an open field west of a white house. You can see a **all door and a mailbox (closed) here.

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