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@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
 Fools' Day joke in 2001, Simon Cozens published "Programming Parrot", a
 fictional interview between Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall detailing their
 plans to merge Python and Perl into a new language called Parrot
-(U<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>).
+(L<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>).
 
 =head2 Parrot Resources
 
 The starting point for all things related to Parrot is the main website
-U<http://www.parrot.org/>. The site lists additional resources, well as recent
+L<http://www.parrot.org/>. The site lists additional resources, well as recent
 news and information about the project and the Parrot Foundation, which holds
 the copyright over Parrot and helps guide development and the community.
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 Parrot includes extensive documentation in the distribution. The full
 documentation for the latest release is available online at
-U<http://docs.parrot.org/>.
+L<http://docs.parrot.org/>.
 
 =head3 Mailing Lists
 
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
 you're interested in getting involved in development, you may also want to
 follow the I<parrot-commits> and I<parrot-tickets> lists.  Information on all
 the Parrot mailing lists and subscription forms for each is available at
-U<http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo>.
+L<http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo>.
 
 The archives for I<parrot-dev> are also available on Google Groups at
-U<http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev> and via NNTP at
-U<nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.parrot.devel>.
+L<http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev> and via NNTP at
+L<nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.parrot.devel>.
 
 =head3 IRC
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 X<IRC channel (#parrot)>
 
 Parrot developers and users congregate on IRC at C<#parrot> on the
-U<irc://irc.parrot.org> server. It's a good place to get real-time answers to
+L<irc://irc.parrot.org> server. It's a good place to get real-time answers to
 questions or see how things are progressing.
 
 =head3 Issue Tracking & Wiki
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 X<trac.parrot.org website>
 X<issue tracking (trac.parrot.org)>
 
-Parrot developers track issues with a Trac site at U<https://trac.parrot.org/>.
+Parrot developers track issues with a Trac site at L<https://trac.parrot.org/>.
 Users can submit new tickets and track the status of existing tickets.  The
 site also includes a wiki used in project development, a source code browser,
 and the project roadmap.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 
 Parrot's first release occurred in September 2001.  It reached 1.0 in March
 2009. The Parrot project makes releases on the third Tuesday of each month. Two
-releases a year E<mdash> occuring every January and July E<mdash> are
+releases a year -- occuring every January and July -- are
 "supported" releases intended for production use.  The other ten releases are
 development releases for language implementers and testers.
 
@@ -147,10 +147,10 @@
 X<HLL developer role>
 
 Developers who work on any of the high-level languages that target
-ParrotE<mdash>such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or TclE<mdash>are
+Parrot--such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or Tcl--are
 high-level language developers. The Parrot repository includes a few example
 languages. A full list of languages is available at
-U<https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages>.
+L<https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages>.
 
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