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Former Microsoft Chief Says It's RIP For The PC

Once at the helm of one of the largest most successful corporations the world has ever seen, Bill Gates’ successor as Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie believes it’s time to start writing...

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filk
  • (adj) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying.
  • (noun) Filk music; a filk song.
  • (verb) To perform filk music.
  • (verb) To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
'Filk' is sometimes capitalized.
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

- Rémy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915)

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