I like numbers very much :).
Once I asked myself (I was thinking about cumulative audience and the voting system) how many ++ are in the pool for a single day. Here a simple snippet that counts them for me.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TableExtract;


my $votes_in_the_pool = 0;

my @number_of_votes = ( 0, 5, 8, 12, 16, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40);


my $page_content = get( 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Number
+%20of%20Monks%20by%20Level' ) 
 || die ("Can't get page content!\n");


my $parser = new HTML::TableExtract();
$parser->parse( $page_content );


my $table = $parser->table_state(1, 2);

print "Today...\n";
foreach my $row ( $table->rows ) {

 foreach ( @$row ) {
  if ( /Level (\d+)\n\((\d+)\)/s ) {
   print "there are $2 monks of level $1\n";
   $votes_in_the_pool += $number_of_votes[ $1 - 1 ] * $2; 
  }
 }

}

print ".. for a total of $votes_in_the_pool votes\n";
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