Here be dragons

Some coffee, a lot of computer geekery and a sprinkling of Wikipedia…

It’s a blue screen of death, a guru meditation or perhaps a bomb.

Merrily on our way to acquire new information, we are suddenly struck by nothingness: an invalid instruction or an illegal memory access.

Here be dragons, it is written. Here be dragons indeed, for what is lack of knowledge but the root of all superstition and prejudice.

There might very well be dragons, but they are only dragons of the self. Dragons that are nothing but a myth. Nothing that a three finger salute could not take care of.

Slay your dragons, your quackery and your gullibility and keep sailing.

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