Okay I know stuff like this has been done before (Grab weather from yahoo, etc.) but I thought I'd post it anyway for some feedback. This script grabs the major headlines off of http://news.yahoo.com/ and prints them in their own table. Works great by calling it via an exec SSI or a system call in perl. I could have probably gotten away with using just LWP::Simple and I probably didn't have to use HTML::TokeParser but it makes it a little more custamizable, i.e. it'd be easy to strip the image tags etc. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::TokeParser;

### Main Program ###

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $rq = HTTP::Request->new('GET', 'http://news.yahoo.com');
my $r = $ua->request($rq);

my ($content, $parser, $token, $token2);
if ($r->is_success) { # parse the contents of the page
    $content = $r->content;
    $parser = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$content);
    while ($token = $parser->get_token) {
        if ($token->[0] eq 'T' && $token->[1] =~ /Top (\s+|\n)Story/) 
+{
            print "<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=\
+"100%\"><tr bgcolor=dcdcdc><td><font face=\"arial,helvetica\"><b>";
            print $token->[1];
            while ($token2 = $parser->get_token) {
                if ($token2->[0] eq 'S') {
                    print $token2->[4];
                } elsif ($token2->[0] eq 'E') {
                    print $token2->[2];
                } else {
                    print $token2->[1];
                }
                last if $token2->[1] =~ /More\s+Health\s+Headlines/;
            }

        }
    }
    print "</b></a></font></td></tr></table>";
}

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