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View a Lord of the Rings timeline easter egg in calendar
Authored by: hrbrmstr on Jan 13, '04 12:58:01PM
For those who would like to possibly expand upon this, you can install the perl module "Date::Tolkien::Shire" and get programmatic access to the historical Middle Earth timeline for any given date.

perl.com has an article that shows usage, and you can add it to the local perl library by opening up a terminal and entering:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install Date::Tolkien::Shire"
If you've never done a module install from CPAN before, you might want to do a:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
first to setup CPAN access.

It's fun to add it to login profiles, web pages and mail signatures.

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