我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚不眠之夜，或者在朦朧的週末早上蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那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。

把所有這些都作為一個Readlist。

論不朽

作者納撒尼爾·裡奇（nathanielrich）花了一些時間與科學家申久保塔（Shin Kubota）在一起，後者研究杜氏海蜇（Turritopsis dohrnii），也被稱為“不朽水母”

****：納撒尼爾·裡奇——水母能解開不朽的祕密嗎？

You might expect that, having learned of the existence of immortal life, man would dedicate colossal resources to learning how the immortal jellyfish performs its trick. You might expect that biotech multinationals would vie to copyright its genome; that a vast coalition of research scientists would seek to determine the mechani**s by which its cells aged in reverse; that pharmaceutical firms would try to appropriate its less*** for the purposes of human medicine; that governments would broker international accords to govern the future use of rejuvenating technology. But none of this happened.

關於“weev”

阿德里安陳介紹了臭名昭著的網際網路巨魔安德魯“韋夫”歐恩海默，最著名的，並被判在2010年大規模的AT&T iPad 3G違反。

艾德里安陳-網際網路上最可怕的人入獄：一個被謾罵的巨魔能成為極客英雄嗎？

Auernheimer deploys a peculiar rhetorical strategy that he's learned to work to his advantage: he peppers his conversation with bizarre but true facts and historical references—he has an encyclopedic knowledge of ancient Greek history, world religi*** and contemporary U.S. anti-government extremists, among other things—then hits you with dubious details about his own life. The idea is that the overwhelming strangeness of the world will make you more receptive to the relatively b**** stuff Auernheimer makes up about himself.

論說謊

西恩娜·馬德里在網上描述了人們假裝患重病的令人不安的世界。

陌生人：西娜馬德里-說謊的疾病

The deception began with an opaque post here and there. "Oh I’m sick again" posts, as Alex calls them. "No one paid attention until I started full-time illness blogging." So in April 2011, she ordered two wheelchairs, oxygen tanks, face masks, some veterinary IV tubing, and other medical equipment from Amazon.com. She also cut her hair off and told her IRL best friend that she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She reasoned that this would help validate her story.

冷卻時

《食用地理》雜誌的尼古拉·特威利（Nicola Twilley）介紹了運輸中的冷卻和製冷以及櫥櫃中的食品儲存背後的建築和基礎設施。

內閣成員：尼古拉·特威利-冷景

As a result, meat locker visitors (who include many of the city’s best chefs, armed with a stamp to mark their purchases) walk down fluorescent-lit, white-tiled aisles surrounded by purpling, mold-covered primal cuts and chased by gusts of malty, mushroomy, slightly sweet-**elling air. Of course, according to Mark Solasz, Sam’s son, "it’s not a **ell, it’s an aroma."

關於“顫慄”

隨著邁克爾傑克遜的《顫慄》（Thriller）年滿30歲，史蒂夫·格林伯格（Steve Greenberg）回顧了這張有史以來最暢銷的專輯發行的市場和文化背景。

公告牌：史蒂夫格林伯格-邁克爾傑克遜的'驚悚'在30：一張專輯如何改變世界

What really had happened over the previous three years was a sei**ic technological shift that had torn apart the very idea of the mass audience upon which pop hits depended: By the end of the 70s, 50.1% of radio listeners were tuned to FM, ending AM's historical prevalence and hastening the demise of the mass-audience Top 40 stati*** that had dominated the radio ratings since the 1950s. By 1982, FM commanded 70% of the audience-and among the 12-24 year old demographic, it was 84%. C***equently, a mass pop music audience that crossed demographic lines could not be sustained.

在音樂部落格上

馬克·艾倫（markallen）介紹了2004年至2008年期間盛行的晦澀難懂的音樂下載部落格的獨特網路文化。

錐子：馬克·艾倫——無名音樂下載部落格的興衰：圓桌會議

If one **art record collector was able to share the entire contents—music, artwork and all—of one vinyl LP on his blog, for free, and upload another item from his 1,000+ collection the next day, for weeks and years, and others like him did the same, competing with each other about who could upload the rarest and most sought-after record, and anyone who downloaded it could then share it again and again… Suddenly everyone in the world had the coolest record collection in the world; and soon, nobody in the world had the coolest record collection in the world.

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