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。

把所有這些都作為一個閱讀列表。

論化學戰試驗

拉菲·卡查多裡安（Raffi Khatchadourian）在書中寫到，在冷戰期間的大部分時間裡，在陸軍的埃奇伍德研究中心，對士兵（以及背後的科學家、醫生和工作人員）進行精神活**物測試。

《紐約客》：拉菲·卡查杜裡安-譫妄行動

To dem***trate the effects of VX, he was known to dip his finger in a beaker containing the lethal agent, then rub it on the back of a shaved rabbit; as the animal convulsed and died, he would casually walk across the room and bathe his finger in a Martini to wash off the VX.

在網路上

AnilDash認為，在過去的十年裡，網路及其核心價值觀發生了多大的變化，而且往往變得更糟。

阿尼爾·達什-我們失去的網路

We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a **all number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself.

在8軌上

《收藏家週刊》採訪了巴克·伯內特（Bucks Burnett），他是8軌的冠軍，也是幾個致力於這種備受嘲笑的形式的博物館的創始人。

收藏家週刊：亨特·奧特曼·斯坦福-上帝保佑八軌

In the mid-’60s, Bill Lear of Learjet wanted a format to play music in his airplanes, so he had his engineers develop a tape cartridge that they installed in the jets. Very quickly a light went off in his head. He’s like, "Wait, my jet customers love having music in the air. Why can’t I put this in cars?" Lear went out and lobbied all the big auto manufacturers in Detroit and got them to introduce a line of eight-track players in their 1966 cars.

論攝影

託馬斯貝勒認為他的攝影習慣，記憶和經驗。

《紐約客》：託馬斯·貝勒——告別現在

I like action shots. I don’t use a flash. A little blur is O.K., as long as the flavor and mood of the light is there. I don’t ask for poses, in fact I actively discourage them. I still remember when my daughter, at the age of three or four, first displayed her fake camera **ile. It was awful.

論模擬

傑森·斯科特談到了透過模擬器嚴格、清晰地再現影片遊戲所帶來的麻煩，以及捕捉糟糕顯示器的“模擬霧”的努力。

ASCII:Jason Scott-糟糕的顯示器真是個奇跡

"The vector lines, which are created by aiming a beam DIRECTLY AT YOUR EYES only to be stopped by a coated piece of glass, have a completely different feel. The phosphor glows, the shots look like **all stars floating across the glass, and a raster line is not to be seen. It’s an entirely different experience, and the teenagers at MAGfest had never seen it before, and unfortunately, it is well on its way out."

在電纜上

《星球貨幣》的亞當·戴維森（Adam Davidson）深入研究了推動當前電視巨潮的經濟學。

《****》：亞當·戴維森“瘋子”經濟奇跡

At first, the cable industry’s ascendance into arguably America’s single-most-profitable big business makes almost no economic sense. Not long ago, three major networks controlled all of our viewing. Now dozens of channels reach a fraction of that audience. According to the basic rule of supply and demand, the revenue and profits should plummet. But those rules break down when an industry operates as a near monopoly.

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