Fortunes via RSS
Technology to provide recently added fortune cookies via an RDF Site Summary (RSS) feed has been developed yesterday. Controlled via cron a number of RSS feeds are created regularly. There are five feeds for singular fortune databases and three special feeds that aggregate fortune cookies from a number of databases. Interested people are free to include either of them in their own aggregators or RSS readers.
The RDF files are created by a program written in Perl that uses XML::RSS and writes fake URLs based on the MD5 sum of the fortune cookie itself, so that readers don't get confused by the same URLs. With help of Algorithm::Diff the program will only create a new RDF file if there have been changes so that readers don't have to fetch the file again all the time.