The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “technology”

Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web
Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web

A modern time machine for data and what we can learn about the web from Victorian toys.

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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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Army Goes Ghost
Army Goes Ghost

What the U.S. Army has to do with Sarah Palin, the Terminator and Men in Black.

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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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Nomadic Living 2.0
Nomadic Living 2.0

What European gypsies have to teach us about sustainability and the housing market.

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6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh
6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh

Shortcuts to obesity, paid shamelessness, D.C.’s constitutional right to bitch-slapping, and a potent antidote to it all.

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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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Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art
Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art

Why 1.7 million people yearn to have their balloons popped every day and what the MoMA has to do with matchmaking.

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Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power
Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power

Why MIT geeks are throwing the best dinner party ever.

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LED The Way
LED The Way

How to stop global warming and hackers with the flip of a light switch.

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