This story was sent to the Perl Advocacy mailing list and I thought I'd share it with you. The Template Generator is a Perl script that creates Web pages using an XML-based site description.

Who would win if Spider-Man fought Yoda?

Working in the O'Reilly bookstore at the WWDC a couple of weeks ago was quite an eye-opener for me.

Instead of complaining how digital video recorders are allowing users to skip commercials, advertisers and television broadcasters need to adapt to the new age of innovation.

Do you have a Perl success story that you'd like to share? I'm also interested in hearing about how Perl and Mac OS X play together.

Clearly there is a strong market need for emulators : )

Based on the Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights (Marybeth Peters), the Librarian of Congress (James H. Billington) has formally rejected the CARP Panel's determinations for webcasting rates. The Librarian of Congress now has until June 20, 2002 to issue his final determination.

This story came from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. TERMIUMplus is a trilingual application that allows translators and terminologists to search a collection of 1.5 million entries in English, French and Spanish.

"Copyright is dead" is the worst possible message to send to Congress and the public, especially since the Supreme Court will soon consider overturning the Sonny Bono copyright extension act, which added 20 years to copyright terms.

At the Emerging Tech conference, Tim O'Reilly announced that O'Reilly & Assoc. would adopt the Founders' Copyright of 14 years (with the proviso of authors' agreement). Under current law, copyright is lifetime of the author plus 70 years.