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The Magnet

Mark Frauenfelder
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Free payphones in Portland

“We’re the fastest growing free pay phone company in America. It’s easy to compete in business if you’re not making money.” — Futel co-founder Karl Anderson

When I was in Portland, I came across this payphone in the Buckman/Belmont area. I...

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I made a Yoko Ono artwork

Last Sunday, for Father’s Day, Carla took me to The Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles to see “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” a major retrospective of her work. Most of it is from before she met and married John Lennon — her early days in...

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The Magnet: Color Memory, Camel Slobber, and a 1971 Computer Book

Tips, curiosities, a recipe that sounds gross but is delicious

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The Longest-Running Vaporware Project in the History of Computing

Gary Wolf's 1995 Wired profile of Ted Nelson is still one of the great pieces of tech journalism — and Nelson is still furious about it.

I recently reread “The Curse of Xanadu” by Gary Wolf, published in Wired in June 1995. Gary is a frien...

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Jet-Lagged in Lisbon with a Metal Puzzle in My Pocket

Here’s a grab bag of things that caught my interest in recent weeks.

Lisbon’s Reservoir Museum

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