Once I started actually reading I found that your code _is_ valuable. I also tried (of course!) to write something similar but simpler, and haven't succeeded so far (man, this CNN page is Hell!).

Heh, yeah, those pages can be a right pain in the ass. Don't forget, once you have it working on CNN's news pages, it has to work on slashdot, lwn, (and maybe even one day perlmonks, not that I've tried it myself).

Don't worry about bruised egos---I can see now the code probably wasn't ready to be posted, and certainly not without a much better explanation of what it does and why (which I originally cut out to make the node shorter).