The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Puzzle: brass instrument?

Deduce what this does, and I’ll talk about you on this fine literary establishment. Clue: one of the simplest brass instruments. Difficulty: 3/4.


use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; my $d =
'http://www.timesonline.co.uk'; while (<>) {/value="(.*?)"/; my $u =
$1; if ($u =~ m{^/}) {$u = $d . $u;} my $o = `wget -q -O
- "$u"`; for ($o =~ m/ef="(.*?)">.*?DOW/) {say $1;}}
[(2008 April 8) .]

With no submissions after 24 hours, I can only assume I am the Master of Perl. Cower beneath me, lowly programmers of the night.

Abandon your ideas.

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