Hacker News
This tiny script is a scraper for http://news.ycombinator.com. It shows just how little Ruby is required to run a powerful web filter.

What it be doin':
Fetches the YCombinator news page
HPricot's it into pieces
Builds an RSS feed
Uses links to parse the destination article page and include the main text inline
Runs as a stand-alone server thanks to Rack and Mongrel

I am at loss of interesting reading stuff during my lunch break. Was wondering, which blogs do you read? Preferably nothing too politically inclined (I'm tired of reading about Obama doing things wrong left and right) and more nerd oriented (data sources, statistics, technology).