The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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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) .]

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