The 18th issue of The Perl Journal was shipped a few weeks ago, with 12 new articles for your reading pleasure. The Fifth Annual Obfsucated Perl Contest is up and running too, with the deadline fast approaching. Get your entries in by August 15th. As usual, a subscription is required to access the content online (except for the contest details).

• Perl News, Chris Nandor
• Filtering Mail with Mail::Audit and News::Gateway, Simon Cozens
• Tktk: a Perl/Tk Solitare Game, Greg Bacon
• Trees, Sean M. Burke
• GDGraph3d, Jeremy Wadsack
• Lingua::Wordnet, Dan Brian
• Patterns in Perl, Sean Hunter
• Capturing Video in Real Time, Marc Lehmann
• Perlix, the Perl Operating System, Simon Cozens
• TkComics, A Perl/Tk Web Client, Stephen Lidie
• The Perl Shell, Gregor N. Purdy
• CONTEST: Results of The Perl Poetry Contest, Nathan Torkington

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