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On the verge of meta-ing myself into oblivion: geek wageslave-turned-geek minstrel, Jonathan Coulton, recently created a song for game developer Valve, which is used in The Best Game Ending Ever for their highly original game, Portal. If an internet-based, Creative Commons-friendly singer songwriter isn't futurismic enough for you, how about hearing said song as covered by a Japanese virtual idol in nearly unintelligible, katakana-accented English?
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