The Marginalian
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Mac in the Produce Aisle
Mac in the Produce Aisle

Why Steve Jobs is bigger in Japan than the Hollywood A-list combined.

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Blooper Troopers
Blooper Troopers

Droops, bloopers and what geeks, babies and whales have in common.

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Don’t Click It
Don’t Click It

Why hover is the new click and how to undo 30 years of habituation.

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Cartography by the People
Cartography by the People

What getting lost in Eindhoven has to do with a nice pit bull and a shovel.

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Govit: A New Social Network for the Politically-Minded
Govit: A New Social Network for the Politically-Minded

Why the best way of taking The Man down may be by playing his own game. Welcome to the Down With The Man issue: Part 3.

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Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games
Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games

Rice from Shakespeare, how to help cure cancer, 60 million ways spam helps literature, a first-person snooper, and solid proof you may be the wrong gender.

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Best of Election Season Innovation
Best of Election Season Innovation

Private confessions, citizen voyeurism, a shot at redemption, why it pays to have famous friends, and how graphic design changed politics forever.

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Pepsi: Can It?
Pepsi: Can It?

How Tim Burton could’ve made $1 million today and why the road to social media is paved with good intentions.

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Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer
Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer

Why the if-I-can’t-have-it-you-can’t-have-it mentality produces nothing but a generous serving of loser.

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B-Sides and Breakaways
B-Sides and Breakaways

Dancing in the streets, digital Dickens, time retold, LEGO on Times Square, 34841003122 reasons we’re devolving, what Etruscan vases have to do with skin rashes, and how to out-BlackBerry the BlackBerry.

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