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Roleplaying

Secret Origins

On Rock Scissors Blog, Bruce Baugh bitches about the abbysmal list of Origin 2002 awards final nominees. On A related note, he plugs Andy Kitkowski’s Indie RPG Awards.

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Software and Programming

Parsing HTML with Perl

The Perl Journal has a good tutorial to Parsing HTML with HTML::PARSER, by Ken MacFarlane.

Worth noting that this is already sub-classed (and re-used) by lots of other modules in CPAN. Although I think the common approach is either to (a) use RegExps to parse what you need or (b) use some black-box tool to convert the HTML to well-formed XML, and parse that.

The HTML::Tree objects (tree builder and tree node classes) are another interface to the HTML::Parser, as is HTML::TokeParser. I think I’ll stick with hacking on the plain parser for now. Bah. It doesn’t work – some obscure bug when calling the “parse” method, which doesn’t appear in the source – compiled code, perhaps? In any case, I’m using RegExps….

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Comics

S-E-X-Men


SEX SELLS – NEW X-MEN #118
– subliminal sexual messages in NEW X-MEN #118. Heh. Gotta go re-read that issue now. (link via Linkmachinego)

Also from Linkmachinego comes the Zenith phase 3 scorecard, which is ridicilously obscure, but just the sort of link I love (it’s part of a site describing superhero characters in UK comics).

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Resources

Hundreds of Years Ago

Medieval Life & The Hundred Years War is an online book about the Medieval period, provided by as site for a game called The Hundred Years War (HYW) (online strategy-roleplaying thing)

Also, on further historical linkage The Siege of Constantinople (more about Byzantine military history) and Battle of Hastings site.

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Resources

The Red Kaganate

The Red Kaganate is an association of reenactors that have a lot of fascinating historical background on their site about the steppe nomad peoples of central asia (mongols, scythians, etc.).