The interesting kids were the outcasts, the strange ones and the ones that were easy to laugh at.

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Assange, the strange recluse, peaks ones interest as some Lex Luthor who runs an evil empire from a subterranean lair.

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So do strange ones, like the Vigor poster that depicts a tiger with his fangs around a tire.

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It may seem strange to more recent generations, but auto stocks, especially the smaller and more speculative ones, were once the wave of the future.

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But nothing is as strange as Google getting into the hardware business directly and selling devices, albeit unlocked and unsubsidized ones, directly to consumers.

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How is it, then, that this strange one became canonic, while those other, to us more appealing ones had to be buried in the desert for safekeeping, lest they be destroyed as heretical?

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