ActiveState announced the winners of their Perl haiku contest. The funny thing was that I didn't know any of the names shown, and there sure seemed like a lot of duplicates. Plus, there was a Dishonorable Mention for this entry:
Unreadable code,
Why would anyone use it?
Learn a better way.
Here's why I use it: Because I can write a program to summarize the winners on the web page in 5 minutes. 
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

$mech->get( "http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Perl/Haiku/AboutPerl" );

my @names = ($mech->content =~ /Name: (.+?)<BR/igm);
my %count;
++$count{$_} for @names;
for my $key ( sort { $count{$b}<=>$count{$a} || lc $a cmp lc $b } keys
+ %count ) {
    printf "%3d: %s\n", $count{$key}, $key;
}

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xoxo,
Andy

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