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。

論音樂

凱爾·查卡考慮到，當我們只是從雲中借來音樂和收集變化時，我們是如何體驗音樂和收集變化的

過去的局：凱爾查卡-空3

Music streaming may enable us as c***umers of music, able to call up and listen to virtually any well-known track in an instant, but it fails to empower listeners as collectors. It’s possible to bookmark songs in applicati*** like Spotify and recall them at will, but for now at least, it’s not possible to gather together the songs you like in an enduring, sharable library the way we might arrange books on a bookshelf (another dwindling piece of technology.

在groupon上

有人讀過他們的書。

法斯特公司：亞當L。Penenberg-Groupon和它的軸心點：一個巨大的、元的新聞聚合

Finally, all eyes have turned to Andrew Mason, Groupon's 31-year-old CEO, who once paid a man to dress up like a ballerina in the office, who propagates false rumors about himself owning 20 cats, and who films himself doing yoga in his underwear. [He] is trying to figure out the next thing for his company... building what Mason calls the "operating system for local commerce"--a suite of software and technology services that would embed Groupon into every facet of every transaction on Main Street... a kind of Yellow Pages to search for new ideas on where to dine or where to find the lowest prices offered by thousands of local businesses.

在38個工作室

賈森·施瓦茨記錄了美國職業棒球大聯盟前投手柯特·席林38個工作室的興衰。

波士頓雜誌：傑森·施瓦茨-遊戲結束

Deadlines were frequently missed, something for which staffers say Schilling rarely held anyone accountable. The ex-pitcher had a bigger concern. "The game wasn’t fun," he says, unprompted, beside the softball field. "It was my biggest gripe for probably the past eight to 12 months." Visually, Copernicus was stunning, but the actual things you could do in the game weren’t engaging enough. The combat aspects especially lagged. Schilling — who never wavered in his belief that the game would be great — says the MMO was improving, but after six years, it still wasn’t there.

在無人機上

伊麗莎白·布米勒向美國無人機飛行員講述了這份工作的心理壓力。

《****》：伊麗莎白·布米勒——一份等待殺戮的日工把整個世界都拋諸腦後

All the operators di**iss the notion that they are playing a video game. (They also reject the word "drone" because they say it describes an aircraft that flies on its own. They call their planes remotely piloted aircraft.) "I don’t have any video games that ask me to sit in one seat for six hours and look at the same target," said Joshua, a sensor operator who worked at Creech for a decade and is now a trainer at Holloman. "One of the things we try to beat into our crews is that this is a real aircraft with a real human component, and whatever decisi*** you make, good or bad, there’s going to be actual c***equences."

關於密碼

作家Mat Honan的個人賬戶週五下午遭到駭客攻擊，導致iPhone、iPad、MacBook Air、谷歌賬戶被刷，Gizmodo的Twitter賬戶上出現一連串攻擊性資訊。這個週末花點時間想出一個更強大的密碼。

馬特·霍南-是的，我被黑了。很難。

At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash. My password was a 7 digit alphanumeric that I didn’t use elsewhere. When I set it up, years and years ago, that seemed pretty secure at the time. But it’s not. Especially given that I’ve been using it for, well, years and years.

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