Silly oneliners from your ~/bin

(Or shell functions if your shell have them)
1. Read the last xkcd comic without opening your browser:

#!/bin/sh
feh -F `curl -q -o - http://xkcd.com | awk '/URL/ {print $5}'`

>>1
Weird, I didn't know others had bin directories in their home directories too.

A simple timer. Simple, but useful in a number of situations.
~ $ cat bin/timer
#!/bin/sh
sleep $@; mplayer /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga

4chan image scraper. Just provide the link to a thread, then it saves all the images.
~ $ cat bin/4chan-dl
#!/bin/sh
curl -s $@ | tr '\"' '\n' | grep "images.4chan.org" | uniq | sed s/^/http:/g | xargs wget -nv