A simple CGI script which displays the current threat warning according to the Homeland Security Advisory System. The script visits the Whitehouse.gov's Homeland security page to fetch the current threat level in real time, and then displays the approriate threat image.
Free Perl scripts to provide live Open Directory content on your Web site. This means that you can add an entire web directory to your own website without needing megabytes of space to store the data.
The Executer is a bit more advanced than its partner script (The Includer), it will grab the results of ANY web file (CGI, java, html, etc.) on ANY web site, by opening a connection (using the LWP module), and printing it anywhere you want using a simple Javascript tag. It not only does what SSI can (for servers that don't have it), but it can grab contents from any web site too! That's something you can't do with SSI.
This program lets you add real time up to the minute forecasting to your website for free and without any programming knowledge. Add Weather works on any website with any platform.
Webget is a Perl script that downloads a list of specified URLs at night. It is only useful if you do not have to pay on a per-minute scale for your Internet connection; its advantages are that you will reach higher speeds with most ISPs, and you do not have to download while you are using your Internet connection for other things too.
Sitescooper automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. It maintains a cache, and will avoid stories you've already read.