The Evil Ring

Let's face it, hackers are lazy. Lazy in a good way, tough. In a way that would make you spend two hours scripting away a task that takes ten minutes so that the next hundred times it will take only one second and would be performed by the computer, all on his own. Wheter or not this saves time on the long run is a matter that has yet to be discused, but it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Me being a hacker wannabe myself, have found me looking repeatedly at the Evil List for the latest in blogging inspiration. I tought it would be nice to have a ring, just like the freak ring, but dynamical, that is, you cicle trought the blogs in the same order that they are on the evil list at that moment (or some 14 minutes before). To achieve that I put together a perlish script, http://hammer.prohosting.com/~juanp/cgi-bin/evilring.cgi that can do the trick, by looking at the evil list, finding the next or previous entry to yours and sending you there.
This infamous script takes two arguments:

• name: An indication of the blog you want to place yourself in, to go to the previous or next. The name has to contain a unique part of your blog's URL as it appears on the list (examples of valid names are foxtrot, binaryx, bachue, and any piece of the url that identifies the blog univocally


• position: Either previous or next to indicate if you want the blog that is a little younger or the one that is a little older that the one indicated by name

For example, for foxtrot's blog the url would be:

<a href="http://hammer.prohosting.com/~juanp/cgi-bin/evilring.cgi?name=foxtrot&position=previous">Previous</a>
<a href="http://hammer.prohosting.com/~juanp/cgi-bin/evilring.cgi?name=foxtrot&position=next">Next</a>