$assignTitle{1} =    "Slashdot";
$assignCategory{1} = "Tech News";
$assignBlurb{1} =    "News for nerds. Stuff that matters.";
%assignUrl{1} =      "http://www.slashdot.org/";

$assignTitle{2} =    "Perl Monks";
$assignCategory{2} = "Perl";
$assignBlurb{2} =    "Perl advice.";
$assignUrl{2} =      "http://www.perlmonks.org/";

return (%assignTitle,%assignCategory,%assignBlurb,%assignUrl); 
# apparently this (or the other similarly commented statement
# or both) is illegal and/or doesn't do what I think it should.

}