I know. Forgot my towel on 25th. This is an attempt to apologize :). A medium snippet (or a little program, if you prefear) to dig through the Galactic Guide.

Update: Another good Guide: http://www.vogon.com/guide/

Update: Following jepri's advice, topic can come from command-line. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parser;


my $in_article_body = 0;
my $colin = HTML::Parser->new( 
    start_h => [sub 
         { 
      my $self = shift;
      my ($tagname, $attr) = @_;
      
      if ($tagname eq "div" && $attr->{class} eq 'article') {
          $in_article_body = 1;;
      }
         }, "self, tagname, attr"],

    end_h => [sub 
         { 
      my $self = shift;
      my ($tagname) = @_;
      
      if ($tagname eq "div" && $in_article_body) {
          $in_article_body = 0;
      }
         }, "self, tagname"],


    text_h => [sub 
         { 
      my $self = shift;
      my ($origtext) = @_;
      
      print $origtext if $in_article_body;
         }, "self, text"]);

my $topic = $ARGV[0] || 'perl';


my $url = "http://www.galactic-guide.com/cgi-bin/articlesearch.cgi?sea
+rchval=$topic";
my $string = get( $url );

# It works like Google's "I'm feeling lucky"-mode
if ($string =~ /1\. <a href="([^"]*)/ ) {

    my $new_url = "http://www.galactic-guide.com$1";
    my $text = get( $new_url );

    $colin->parse( $text );

} else {

    print "There aren't pages about $topic\n";

}

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