Just a few minutes ago I entered the monastery and was shocked that someone had moved all these lovely nodlets (except the slow chatterbox which everyone should deactivate)of my screen. The evildoer was found easy: a url that is way to long in this evil node. It's not that my 19" monitor wouldn't be big enough *chough* but it's said that there are people w/ 17" or even smaller displays. I saw such problems earlier at FM and they solved it by cutting the middle the URL so it wouldn't be longer than say 50 chars. 
$_ = "http://this.is.a.very.long.url.and.this.is/very/bad?after=I&dont
+=like&long&urls=and&they=look&really=ugly";
print "before: $_\n";
s/(.{30}).*(.{20})/$1 ... $2/;
print "after: $_\n";

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==>> 
before: http://this.is.a.very.long.url.and.this.is/very/bad?after=I&do
+nt=like&long&urls=and&they=look&really=ugly
after: http://this.is.a.very.long.url ... hey=look&really=ugly

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package Lizard::King;
sub can { do { 'anything'} };

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