Or, if anyone is interested, here is my rather loaded free nodelet. I use a modified version of the dark theme and with this freenode in place I've gone and shut off everything like the nav menu, quips, etc... 

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+llspacing=2>
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+cellspacing=0>
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+_______________ -->
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      <td rowspan=4 valign=top width=1 style="background-color: #88888
+8; text-align: center; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;">
       Node<br />
       Author<br />
       &#91;<span style="color: #FFFFFF;">`author_name`</span>&#93;
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      <td rowspan=4 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       Author
       Linkage
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      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; padding-left:
+ 6px;">
       [`author_name`|Home Node]
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     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=`author_name`">Recent Posts</a>
      </td>

     </tr>
     </tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [pad://`author_name`|Scratchpad]
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     </tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [id://28877|Consider]
      </td>
 
     </tr>
     <!-- end   section NODE _________________________________________
+__________________ -->
     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=3 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>

     <!-- begin section ME   _________________________________________
+__________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=3 valign=top width=1 style="background-color: #88888
+8; text-align: center; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;">
       Me
      </td>

      <td rowspan=3 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       `user_name`
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; padding-left:
+ 6px;">
       [`user_name`|My]
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=`user_name`">Posts</a>
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     <tr>

     <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-sty
+le: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 6
+px;">
      [pad://`user_name`|Scratchpad]
     </td>

     </tr>
     <!-- end section ME _____________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=3 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>

     <!-- begin section READING ______________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=2 valign=top width=1 style="background-color: #88888
+8; text-align: center; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;">
       Reading
      </td>

      <td rowspan=2 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       New Posts
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; padding-left:
+ 6px;" nowrap>
       [Recently Active Threads|Recent]
       <a href="javascript:toggle_all()">&larr;</a>
        <script language="javascript"><!--
        var expandState="expanded";
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     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Newest Nodes|Newest&nbsp;Nodes]
      </td>

     </tr>
     <!-- end section READING ________________________________________
+____________________ -->

     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=3 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>

     <!-- begin section PM ___________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=19 valign=top width=1 style="background-color: #8888
+88; text-align: center; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;">
       PerlMonks
      </td>

      <td rowspan=1 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       Search
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; padding-left:
+ 6px;">
       [Super Search]
      </td>

     </tr>
     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=2 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=5 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       Sections
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Seekers of Perl Wisdom|SOPW]
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Categorized Questions and Answers|Answers]
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Cool Uses for Perl|CUFP]<br />
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Snippets Section|Snippets]<br />
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [Code Catacombs|Code]<br />
      </td>

     </tr>




     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=2 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=8 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       Smaht
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=brian_d_foy">brian_d_foy</a>
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     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=Juerd">Juerd</a>
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=Kanji">Kanji</a>
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=Limbic~Region">Limbic~Region</a>
      </td>


     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=Merlyn">Merlyn</a>
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=Ovid">Ovid</a>
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=TheDamian">TheDamian</a>
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       <a href="/?node_id=6364;user=TimToady">TimToady</a>
      </td>

     </tr>


     <!-- section seperation _________________________________________
+____________________ -->
     <tr>

      <td colspan=3 style="height: 4px; background-color: #666666;">
      </td>

     </tr>
     <tr>

      <td rowspan=2 width=1 valign="top" style="padding-left: 12px; pa
+dding-right: 6px; background-color: #666666; text-align: right;">
       Settings
      </td>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [id://1072]
      </td>

     </tr>

     <tr>

      <td valign="top" style="background-color: #555555; border-top-st
+yle: solid; border-color: #666666; border-width: thin; padding-left: 
+6px;">
       [http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=492700|edit free]
      </td>

     </tr>



     <!-- end section PM _____________________________________________
+____________________ -->

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   </tr>
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    <td>


   </td>
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naChoZ

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

In reply to Re: pm-freenode-update.pl by naChoZ
in thread pm-freenode-update.pl by naChoZ

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