Ok, here's my code for this. This displays the newest 10 nodes. From here it's easy to cut and paste this into my Slashdot Headline Grabber or create a Perl/Tk,Perl/Gtk or Perl/Qt app to do the same thing.

use LWP::Simple;
my $slurp = get("http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Newest\%20Node
+s");
push @nodes, $1 while $slurp =~ /\?node_id=(\d+)\&/g;
print join("\n", (reverse sort {$a <=> $b} @nodes)[0..9]);
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