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Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  The deadline for the next Tcl conference is today! So send in your
  abstracts etc. If you have already done so, read on for the summary.
  
  - How does object-orientation fit in with natural languages?
     A philosophical but also practical discussion at
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15488>
  
  - A connoisseur's page on one aspect of XML files and the "document
     object model": constructing the XPath for an element.
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23982>
  
  - Quite a few GSoC projects (if not all) have a Wiki page of their
     own. Here is a project aiming at e-learning and the de facto
     standard SCORM: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23190>
  
  - Interested in rough sets? Or for that matter computations on
     relational data sets in general? Then have a look at these
     two pages: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23970> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21767>

  - Oratclers will want to study <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23664> for its
     narrative of a specific memory fault.
  
  - Interested in distributed computing? Then this page, going by
     an inconspicuous name, is certainly worth your while:
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21792>
  
  - It may have been a ridiculously simple game, but it has made
     the history books. Have another go at the bouncing ball:
     <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23959>
  
  - If you are always getting your fingers in a knot, while
     playing the guitar because you cannot find those chords ...
     then this is for you! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17748>
  

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, keeps info to 
    onvince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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