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Being inspired by Edmund von der Burg’s talk at the recent Nordic Perl Workshop in Stockholm, Henrik, Lars, and myself started to play with Open Street Maps.

Some work-related goodness will probably come out of it. Meanwhile, we played with mapping the caches we’ve found in Stockholm during the workshop.

From this map I can deduce three things:

• we need a life;
• the Open Street Maps community in Stockholm has not reached a critical mass yet;
• central Stockholm needs more regular geocaches.

And now - back to the scheduled silence.

While reading The disgruntled chemist, I found the absolutely wonderful Biblical Curse Generator. It produces hilarious curses like

Hear this, O ye son of thunder, for you will see your pomegranates wither!

I could not quite resist, and promptly converted the JavaScript behind it into a command-line Perl utility. This should come especially handy to use in an IRC client (/exec -o biblical-curse).

While at it, I also made biblical-curse into a FreeBSD port, under misc/biblical-curse. Although Pav told me that I’d secure a place in top 10 most useless ports with it, the others (well, some of them) seem to like it.

Dennis of leech.dk fame even put it in lieu of his telnet server, so every time you telnet signout.dk you get randomly cursed at.

Random thing that made me smile:

I need myself some strange matter. DON’T ASK WHAT IT’S FOR! You will know soon enough. My asking price is $1,000,000,000,000 for five cubic centimeters; make me an offer.

From wikipedia “Quark star” article discussion page