Everyone should write a slashdot headline parser...
One day at work while I was bored about a year ago
I wrote a perl script a while ago to parse ultramode.txt (from /.).
This has since been replaced with an RSS feed.
The existing code was adapted from some I found on the net, which uses XML::RSS.
Slashdot Headlines
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I will post more linux related information and code here as time permits.