Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future? Sure, its one more thing you can feel guilty about sitting in your Instapaper queue, but its better than pulling in vain on your Twitter list again. Joshua Brustein tells the ugly story of the breakup of the HoeflerFrere-Jones type foundry. Hoefler had all of Frere-Jones’s design chops, but also had the ability to propel Frere-Jones to prominence in a way he couldn’t have done on his own.