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。

把這些故事作為閱讀列表。

關於星球大戰

布萊恩·菲利普斯（Brian Phillips）講述了自己在《星球大戰》中度過的童年時光，談到了即將上映的迪斯尼續集所面臨的自我意識和取悅影迷的問題。

格蘭特蘭：布萊恩·菲利普斯-絕地歸來

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.

論選擇

邁克·斯皮斯思考了在Rdio和Spotify的即時滿足時代，音樂發現和欣賞是如何發生變化的。謝謝，西蒙·雷諾茲。

《紐約客》：邁克·斯皮斯-斯波提夫及其不滿

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.

論名人訂婚

布魯克斯·巴恩斯（Brooks Barnes）深入調查了一家公司，這些公司背後有傑克·布萊克（Jack Black）、休·傑克曼（Hugh Jackman）、埃迪·墨菲（Eddie Murphy）等名人的線上形象。

****：布魯克斯·巴恩斯-A-Listers，認識你的線上擴音器

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.

論事實核查

大衛·卡爾（davidcarr）關註了線上事實核查“家庭手工業”的發展及其在今年選舉期間的成效——或缺乏成效。

****：大衛卡爾-最後一個事實檢查：它沒有工作

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.

論政治

如果你上週錯過了，看看亞歷克斯·帕雷尼對政治崛起的評論

困惑者：亞歷克斯·帕雷尼-來吧，感受一下嗡嗡聲

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.

上電

在颶風桑迪和整個東北地區的大面積停電之後，提姆·吳強調了一個基於網際網路理念的替代系統。

新共和國：吳國權終於回到了曼哈頓。下麵是如何確保它再也不會熄滅

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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