Displays the Department of Homeland Security threat level, in color. This was just a little CGI I wrote to make a point. Note that I do not advocate parsing XML with regular expressions, except in trivial cases like this. 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $level = 'Unknown';
my %colors = (
  'Unknown'  => '#808080',
  'Low'      => '#63cf63',
  'Guarded'  => '#009aff',
  'Elevated' => '#ffcf00',
  'High'     => '#ff6500',
  'Severe'   => '#ff0000',
);

my $userAgent = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $request = new HTTP::Request GET => 'http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/g
+etAdvisoryCondition';
my $response = $userAgent->request ($request);
$level = ucfirst lc $1 if $response->is_success &&
                          $response->content =~ /CONDITION="([^"]*)"/;

print qq{Content-type: text/html

<html>
  <body style="background-color:$colors{$level}">
    <h3 style="color:#000000">$level</h3>
  </body>
</html>
};

exit 0;

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pbeckingham - typist, perishable vertebrate.

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