In my defense, I was trying to be a little more CGI.pm about it and adopt the 'poetry mode'. With another hour of giggling I finally cracked what I was so close to before.

This produces the same out put as my original above and uses but a single print statement, in deference to all those post I've seen saying "You don't want all them print statements, use CGI.pm" ;^).

Whether this is better or worse than my original or yours I'll leave it to the reader to make their own conclusions. 

#! perl -sw
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard *table/;
use CGI::pretty;

sub Dlighken {
  return sprintf '%02x'x3,
      map{ ($_ *= 1+$_[1]) > 0xff ? 0xff : $_  }
      map hex, unpack 'A2'x3, $_[0];
}

my @colors = qw/800000 808000 008000 008080 000080 808080 c0c0c0/;

print
    table(
        Tr( th(' '), th([@colors]) ),
        map{
            my $scale = $_/10;
            Tr(
                td($_),
                map{
                    td({bgcolor=>"$_"},[$_])
                }
                map{
                    Dlighken($_, $scale)
                } @colors
            )
        }( -5 .. +5 )
    )
;
__END__

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