我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

在facebook上

Alexis Madrigal認為，是時候讓初創企業換一種思路了。每個人都想建立下一個Facebook或Twitter，同時使用徽章和“利用你的社交圖”，但缺少的是真正的創新和真正的發明。我們有工具，馬德裡加爾說，我們需要給他們一些新的東西做。

大西洋：亞歷克西斯·馬德裡加爾-吉格舞開始了：是時候超越Facebook，創造一個新的未來了

Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet." Fifteen years ago, it was, "Build the Web." Five years ago, the answers were probably, "Build the social network" or "Build the mobile web." And it was in around that time in 2007 that Facebook emerged as the social networking leader, Twitter got known at SXSW, and we saw the release of the first Kindle and the first iPhone. There are a lot of new phones that look like the iPhone, plenty of e-readers that look like the Kindle, and countless social networks that look like Facebook and Twitter. In other words, we can cross that task off the list. It happened.

在無人機上

邁克爾·黑斯廷斯（Michael Hastings）觀察了五角大樓擁有1.9萬架無人機的艦隊，以及它如何改變美國作戰、實施監視、執行重要而敏感的任務的方式——所有這些都不需要一個人在場。

滾石：邁克爾·黑斯廷斯——**無人機的崛起：美國如何祕密開戰

Over the past decade, the military has tested a wide variety of unmanned aircraft – from microdrones that run on tiny batteries to those with 200-foot wingspans, powered by jet fuel or solar energy. The drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan – the Predator and the Reaper – look like large model planes and cost $13 million apiece. A drone the size of a 727, the Global Hawk, was used after the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in Haiti to provide rescue operati*** with a bird's-eye view of the disasters. One of the largest drones in development today is the SolarEagle, designed by Boeing and DARPA, the experimental research wing of the Defense Department. With a wingspan of more than 400 feet, the SolarEagle will be able to stay in the air for five years at a time, essentially replacing surveillance satellites, which are costly to put into orbit.

史蒂夫·喬布斯在蘋果之外的歲月

布倫特·施倫德在史蒂夫·喬布斯的一生和職業生涯中多次採訪他。現在，施倫德回顧了他們的討論錄音，找出喬布斯在蘋果任職期間的11年裡做了什麼，他變成了誰。

快速公司：布倫特施倫德-失去史蒂夫喬布斯磁帶

Steve Jobs did not wander aimlessly into the wilderness after being ousted from Apple in 1985. No happy camper, he was loaded for bear; burning to wreak revenge upon those who had spuriously shoved him into exile, and obsessed with proving to the world that he was no one-trick pony. Within days, he abruptly sold off all but one share of his Apple stock and, flush with a **all fortune of about $70 million, set about creating another computer company, this one called NeXT. The startup ostensibly was a vehicle for revolutionizing higher education with powerful, beautiful computers. In reality, it was a bet that one day he would get the better of Apple.

關於fez

即使遊戲圖形不斷改進，獨立開發者社群仍在繼續開發復古的、基於畫素的遊戲，這些遊戲可以讓人回憶起90年代的遊戲和系統。西蒙·帕金從這個角度看了看費茲，看到了一種反作用。

HookShot公司：西蒙·帕金·費茲與畫素之死

Nevertheless, Fez feels like something of a full stop to the pixel art homage movement. What started out as a rebellion has become a cliché and, while Fez is too **art and assured in its own identity to slip into cliché, it feels as though this default fashion has run its course.As new generation of indie game makers rises, one born in the 90s whose formative game experiences were found on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64, one wonders where the next underground aesthetic in games is headed.

在飛行中

如果你在過去的幾年裡坐過飛機，你可能會同意Kip Hawley的論點，即機場安檢是難以置信的技術和最佳化，而且破敗不堪。這位前交通安全管理局局長清楚地介紹了該系統目前的執行情況，並提出了一些簡單的改進方法。

《華爾街日報》：基普·霍利——機場安檢為何被破壞以及如何修複

As a confidence boost, Gary gave me a series of images with guns and knives in various positi***. Knives lying flat were giveaways, but when viewed lengthwise, they had very little visible surface. Explosives were a whole different story. A plastic explosive like C4 is organic and dense. It appears as a heavy orange mass. Unfortunately, a block of cheddar cheese looks roughly the same. As we started testing with a moving scanner, Gary warned me that too many false positives would be a big problem. A "hair-trigger" strategy would get me flunked. Images with guns took about one second to identify. Clear bags took roughly five seconds to double check for blade edges. It was cluttered bags—with their multihued oranges, blues, greens and grays jumbled together—that were the killers.

論音樂寫作

聽音樂不再是一個孤立的過程。我們不斷地分享我們所聽的，並且無限地寫下我們對它的感受——這是如何改變我們對音樂的體驗的？

乾草叉：馬克·理查森-如果你喜歡別人的音樂，就跟著他們

In the online circles in which I travel, there have been three big waves of music writing this year-- one about Grimes, one about Fiona Apple, and one about Nicki Minaj. With Minaj's new album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, it felt like everyone had to have an opinion, and my favorite music writers were all elbowing each other to get to the front of the line with their review or thinkpiece. And while I'm impressed by a handful of songs from Roman Reloaded and will return to at least two ("Beez in the Trap" and "Come on a Cone") regularly, if I'm honest, I've enjoyed reading about the record much more than listening to it.

關於nathan myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold是微軟的前技術長，創辦了一家被稱為專利巨魔的公司，並撰寫了一本2400頁的烹飪書，名為《現代烹飪》。哦，他家裡還有一具霸王龍的骨架。喬哈根跟蹤邁爾沃德和他的許多興趣。

《男人日報》：喬·哈根-極客如何烤漢堡

In 1991, Myhrvold predicted the emergence of the iPhone down to the **allest detail, describing a "digital wallet" that would c***olidate all personal communication — telephone, schedule manager, notepad, contacts, and a library of music and books, all in one. It would record and archive everything you asked it to, he surmised. "The cost will not be very high," he wrote. "It is pretty easy to imagine a $400 to $1,000 retail price." Microsoft, however, was too cost c***cious and risk averse to execute Myhrvold’s vision.

關於外星人

電影，不是外星生物。從1992年起，詹姆斯·卡梅隆就開始回應批評他的電影。

星際雜誌：詹姆斯·卡梅隆——詹姆斯·卡梅隆對外星人批評的回應

Please bear in mind the difficulty of communicating a life cycle this complex to a mass audience, which, seven years later, may barely recall that there was an Alien in ALIEN, let alone the specifics of its physical development. I had a great deal of story to tell, and a thorough re-education would have relegated ALIENS to a pedantic reprise of Ridley Scott's film. The audience seems to have a deepseated faith in the Aliens' basic nastiness and drive to reproduce which requires little logical rationale. That leaves only ******** fans such as myself and a majority of this readership to ponder the technical specifics and c***truct a plausible scenario.

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