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By Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder Verified, Claudia Dawson
| recomendo.com
If you find any value in our little hand-written, hand-crafted, mostly free newsletter, the best thing you can do for us in return is to refer Recomendo to your friends. Because our casual suggestion might not be sufficient, we have added a tangible incentive: subscriber referral rewards. When you share Recomendo with friends who sign up using your unique link (at the bottom of every email), we will reward them with our free newsletter and reward you with some special thank‑yous.
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The Magnet: Color Memory, Camel Slobber, and a 1971 Computer Book

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By Mark Frauenfelder Verified
| The Magnet
Dialed.gg is a simple browser game that shows you a color, hides it, asks you to recreate it from memory, and scores you on how well you did. They recently added similar tests for sound, time, and shapes, too. I did OK on the color and time recall test, and not as well on the sounds and shapes. The Internet Archive has a full scan of How It Works... The Computer, a 1971 Ladybird Books children’s guide by David Carey, illustrated by B.H. Robinson.
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What happened to the 2.5 mile high building designed to be taller than Mount Fuji?

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By Mark Frauenfelder Verified
| Boing Boing Verified
In 1995 the Japanese construction giant Taisei Corporation unveiled plans for the X-Seed 4000, a tower four kilometers tall — a building shaped like Mount Fuji that would have stood 224 meters higher than the actual mountain. It called for 800 floors, room for up to a million residents in Tokyo Bay, and more than three million tonnes of steel. The upper floors sit so high in the atmosphere that the design needed active pressurization to keep the air breathable near the top.
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