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Now celebrating its eighth anniversary! On the web since January 14, 1994. -- What's new? (Last interesting addition: 11 July 2003) Home of: Perl Paraphernalia Universe of Discourse Blog Philadelphia Excursions Mailing List Announcements of shows, lectures, exhibits, dinners, and other events in the Philadelphia area that I consider interesting. Also: -- I am boycotting Amazon . Here's why . The FSF is leading the boycott, and I have joined . Here's what they have to say about it . Play Hexapawn Play More Hexapawn Several years ago I constructed a web version of the `glass bead game' of Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi . At least, I think I did; I've never read Magister Ludi and I built the application from someone else's not-too-clear description of the Glasperlenspiel. Then this week someone in comp.lang.perl.misc happened to ask if there was a Perl implementation, so I brought it out and dusted it off. Here it is. I am running a mailing list about The Pixies. -- Home of the Dick Feynman cabal of the Discordian Society . Want to join? Just count backwards to 0 by 17's starting at 119 to initiate yourself and begin enjoying the benefits of membership, whatever they are. Help me understand the meaning of `robbery'. Take a survey about it or See what others think . Here's one of the more interesting applications I've been hired to write: Trauma Injury Database . You can use it to find out the injuries most and least likely to result from a particular accident such as falling off a ladder; or conversely if you want to know what accident is most likely to result in a certain injury such as a sprained wrist, it will tell you that also. What time is it in Philadelphia? New! Swatch Internet Time -- Advocacy is a game where one person proposes an apparently stupid engineering or design decision, and the other players try to justify it. Rounds 1--76 are complete; round 77 is in progress as of 28 October 2003. The web pages are out-of-date, but you can see the Round 1 engineering decision . A summary of rounds 1-9. Complete mailing list archive. Join the game . I just developed mod_auth_cookie_mysql , an Apache server module that authenticates users based on a cookie value, which is matched against the contents of a MySQL database. It is based on mod_auth_cookie_msql , which was written by Dirk van Gulik . -- I proudly support the endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus . My PGP Public Key See the addresses on mailing lists I don't manage. Those dumbshits at Yahoo decided to list this link in their stupid catalog, in their `spambot bait' category, thus rendering the link worthless. So I had to change it right away. Nonexistent penpals Special: Visit the Tennessee Department of Corrections Kids' Fun Zone ! -- I thought up a new parlor game in which one player makes up up a silly technology, and the other players try to justify it. Read all about it here . -- -- You are visitor since 1 April 1998 mjd@plover.com...