I am a daily reader of slashdot and I have been using this script and a developer account at TellMe to get the headlines over the phone when I am away from a computer. To get the headlines over the phone:

1.  Call Tellme at 1-800-555-Tell
2.  At the Tellme Menu prompt, dial 1-39746


The code that gets the headlines is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/xml\n\n";
print "<vxml version='2.0'>\n";
print "<form>";
print "<block>\n";

open (SLASHDOT, "lynx www.slashdot.org/palm -dump|");
while (<SLASHDOT>) {
if (/.*\d\..*|.*AD:.*|.*Stories continued.*|.*Home page.*|References/)
+ {
print "\n";
} else {
s/\[.*\]//g;
print;
print "."; # added so the headlines don't get slurred together
}
}

print "</block>\n";
print "</form>\n";
print "</vxml>";

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UPDATE: Removed CGI.pm, not needed

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In reply to Slashdot over the phone by beretboy

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