netselect-if
If you're like me, you've wondered which Interactive Fiction Archive mirror is fastest for you. Wonder no more!
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'
doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.ifarchive.org/"))
mirrors =(doc.search("div.ArchiveMirrors")/"a").map {|a| a['href'].strip.match(/^[^\/]+\/\/([^\/]+)/)[1]}.reject {|m| m == "mirror.ifarchive.org"}.uniq
system(*(%w(netselect -v -s 5) + mirrors))