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。

关于k-pop

约翰·西布鲁克（johnseabrook）深入了解了K-pop的世界，这让人奇怪地想起了经典的美国流行音乐工厂，比如Berry Gordy的Motown。

《纽约客》：约翰·西布鲁克——工厂女孩

In addition to singing and dancing, the idols study acting and foreign languages—Japanese, Chinese, and English. They also receive media coaching and are readied for the intense scrutiny they will receive on the Internet from the "netizens" of Korea, the most wired country on earth. ("Netizens Love Seohyun’s Aegyo Mark" declared a recent headline from the K-pop Web site Soompi, regarding the **all beauty dot to the left of the singer’s eye.) Unless you’re the Jonas Brothers or Taylor Swift, public drunkenness, brawling, and serial mi**ehavior can often enhance an artist’s reputation in the American pop scene; in Korea, a rumored sex tape or a positive test for marijuana can derail a career.

在tumblr上

Brittany Julious写了Tumblr的生产、消费的混合体，以及它是如何定义用户的。

这段录音：布列塔尼朱利叶斯-自我的发挥

For myself, the c***umer and blogger and Tumblr user, the art became less the art and more the sort of tangible object I use to define who I am on a daily basis. The photographs by Ekberg were as much me as my collection of rings, my beaded blouses, or my heels. The truth is ugly and self-centered, but true. The more I see, the more I take on and c***ume as me and only me.

论自我

伊桑·卡普兰写了一篇感人肺腑的文章，讲述了虚拟与现实不可避免的融合。

道德亭里面：伊桑·卡普兰——短暂的停顿

Last Thursday I was in a meeting and opened Facebook on my phone and saw that this little boy had passed away two days prior. My heart stopped and for a second I couldn’t breathe. I tapped through to the profile that posted it, and was confronted by the fissure between two posts prior and this one. A **ile and a tragedy.

论散居

亚历克·刘讲述了“脸谱**”散居的历史。

主板：Alec Liu-Facebook**怎么了？这很复杂

"For some strange reason, everyone just agreed with this whole privacy thing," Dan said at the time. "Facebook Killer!" was the battle cry heard around the ‘net, a real-life story of David versus Goliath. Powerful technology investors like Fred Wilson contributed to the cause. Al Gore phoned in to let the boys know that they were fighting the good fight."

论游戏

布拉德·普卢默与经济学家Eyj交谈ó古尔夫ð他在大型多人在线游戏Eve online中负责监管经济。

博客：布拉德·普卢默——电子游戏的经济学

Nowadays, many massively multiplayer online video games have become so complex that game companies are turning to economists for help. Without oversight, the games’ economies can go badly awry — as when a gambling ban triggered a virtual bank run in the online world of Second Life in 2007, with one bank alone costing players $750,000 in real-life money.

在行李牌上

马克·范霍纳克（markvanhoenacker）看着这张低矮的行李牌背后的出生和历史。

斯莱特：马克·范霍纳克——航空公司行李牌的美

The modern tag is known as an automated baggage tag, and was first tried by many airlines in the early 1990s. Perhaps the earliest airline to implement ABTs system-wide was United, in 1992, according to Jon Barrere, a spokesperson for Print-O-Tape, a tag manufacturer and United’s partner on the project. Let’s examine in detail the myriad improvements offered by the ABT, which symbolize as perfectly as anything air travel’s transition from a rare luxury for the ultra-rich to safe, effective transport for a shrinking planet.

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