I was curious about stats on buzzfeed articles. I'm not sure why. Run scrape.rb then run summarise.rb specifying CSV file to use for each. The data is included below

headlines.csv

URL,Title,Description
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Ghetto_Gourmet,Ghetto Gourmet,Underground eating club expands into large community of foodies. 
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/The_Borat_Movie,The “Borat” Movie,Comedy about a Kazakh television journalist's adventures in America.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Gay_Republicans,Gay Republicans,Mark Foley scandal puts all gay Republicans on Capitol Hill under scrutiny.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Eating_Endangered_Species,Eating Endangered Species,Animals on endangered species list considered a culinary delicacy.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Crystal_Meth,Crystal Meth,Drug with ugly side effects.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Loco_Roco_,Loco Roco,Cute PSP video game for the Katamari and Cute Overload set.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Waterboarding,Waterboarding,Controversial form of torture simulates drowning.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Global_Warming_Vacation_Hotspots_,Global Warming Vacation Hotspots ,Why is it 70 degrees in December?
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Manhattan_Love_Suicides,Manhattan Love Suicides,Fuzzy guitar pop from England.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Funny_Republican_TShirts,Funny Republican T-Shirts,Show your support for the underdog with these funny tees.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/YearEnd_Lists,Year-End Lists,"The music blogs are a-brim with ""Best of 2006"" lists."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Radioactive_Poisoning,Radioactive Poisoning,"Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko dies ghastly death, linked to radioactive poisoning."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Four_Eyed_Monster,Four Eyed Monsters,"A half-documentary, half-fiction love story."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Daylight_Savings_,Daylight Savings ,Daylight Savings Time is getting extended by 4 weeks as part of Bush's ingenious energy plan.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/The_Turban,The Turban,Hot for Spring.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Corporate_Terrorism,Corporate Terrorism,TV networks sponsoring terror.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Gaysted,Gaysted,"Heterosexual people getting so wasted, they slip into seemingly gay acts."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Global_Warming,Global.  Warming.,"White House tells Director of National Intelligence he isn't allowed to use the word ""global"" and ""warming"" in the same sentence."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/The_Presidential_Announcement_RollOut,The Presidential Announcement Roll-Out,John McCain warns that he's going to run for President.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Conveniently_Forgetting_Where_50k_Went,Conveniently Forgetting Where $50k Went,"John Kerry questions Sam Fox , who was a Swift Boat benefactor, about his $50k donation in 2004."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Asslessness,Asslessness,Asses come in all shapes and sizes.  Here is a roundup of the lesser-endowed.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Tyra_Is_Nuts,Tyra Is Nuts,Last night's premiere of Cycle 8 of America's Next Top Model provided further insight and evidence.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Banning_Racial_Slurs,Banning Racial Slurs,"First smoking in bars, then trans fat, now the N word.  "
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Tampontification,Tampontification,"For each virtual donation , Seventh Generation will send a pack of organic cotton tampons to a shelter in your state."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/April_Fools_Day,April Fools’ Day,The irresistible attraction of tricking and being tricked.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Bill_Moyers_Journal,Bill Moyers Journal,"Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers returns to PBS in this new series, which also features a blog and a site with free transcripts and clips."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Murdoch_Buying_Things,Murdoch Buying Things,Avast! The man behind Fox is looking to own the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Absinthe,Absinthe,Lucid Absinthe Superieure will be coming to America...and it's legal!
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Skipping_the_White_House_Dinner,Skipping the White House Dinner,The NYT decides to go AWOL from the annual White House Correspondents dinner.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Christopher_Hitchens_Offending_Everyone,Christopher Hitchens Offending Everyone,"Christopher Hitchens charms panelists by referring to women as ""humorless bitches"" and Anna Nicole Smith as ""that fat slut who died."""
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Celebillionaires,Celebillionaires,Billionaires are the new flavor of non-showbiz celebs.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Organic_Architecture,Organic Architecture,"Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens, a system of soil-free plant-covered walls, caught our eye."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Mission_Unaccomplished,Mission Unaccomplished,"May 1 marks the four-year anniversary of Bush's landing on an aircraft carrier and delivering his ""We Did It!"" speech."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Vampire_Weekend,Vampire Weekend,NYC band makes endearingly wordy pop.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Sudden_Adult_Death_Syndrome,Sudden Adult Death Syndrome,"SADS - aka sudden arrhythmia death syndrome, aka long QT syndrome , aka bangungot - may be a heart deformity or the result too many carbohydrates, but it kills you just the same."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Fake_Hogzilla,Fake Hogzilla,What's wrong with this picture?
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Beer_for_Dogs,Beer for Dogs,"The perfect summertime drink for your dog: domestic Happy Tail Ale, or perhaps the more exotic Kwispelbier Dutch brew."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Magnum_Photography,Magnum Photography,The Magnum photo cooperative is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Fred_Thompson,Fred Thompson,Everyone's obsessed with this actor-turned-Presidential-candidate .
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Celebrity_Baby_Weight,Celebrity Baby Weight,Stars race to lose baby weight like it's a professional sport.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Global_Warming_Bedtime_Stories,Global Warming Bedtime Stories,"Scholastic is coming out with The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming , a 176-page call-to-action aimed at children ages 8 and up. "
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Andrew_Speakers_Wife,Andrew Speaker’s Wife,The wife of the jet-setting TB carrier has tested negative for the disease.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Fake_Mustaches,Fake Mustaches,"Snoop Dogg loves: weed , wearing shower caps , and fake mustaches."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Spider_Man_Arrested,Spider Man Arrested,"Urban climber Alain ""Spider Man"" Robert was arrested after clambering up Shanghai's 88-story Jinmao Tower in just 90 minutes."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Designer_Jets,Designer Jets,Italian fashion house Versace creates an interior design service for private jet owners.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Korean_Fried_Chicken,Korean Fried Chicken,Korean fried chicken lands in the U.S.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Pakistan_Invasion,Pakistan Invasion,"In a speech about terrorism, Senator Barack Obama that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists."
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Rocket_Science,Rocket Science,This year's quirky Sundance comedy about precocious teenagers is coming to theaters.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Elizabeth_Dewberry,Elizabeth Dewberry,The novelist dumped her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband for Ted Turner.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/XVIVO,XVIVO,"An award-winning medical animation studio developed by David Bolinsky, who spoke at the annual TED conference.

results

Minimum: 0
Maximum: 5200
Total: 33483
Articles: 744
Average: 45.00403225806452
Median: 17.0

scrape.rb

require "nokogiri"
require "csv"
require "open-uri"

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.buzzfeed.com/archive/2006/11'))

archives = []

$stderr.puts "Scanning for archives"

doc.search(".year a").each do |a|
	archives << "http://www.buzzfeed.com#{a["href"]}"
end

pages = []

CSV.open(ARGV[0], "w") do |csv|
	csv << ["URL", "Title", "Description"]
	archives.each do |u|
	  $stderr.puts "Parsing #{u}"
	  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(u))
	  doc.search(".flow a").each do |a|
	     csv << [ "http://www.buzzfeed.com#{a["href"]}", a.children.text, a["title"] ]       
	  end
	end
end

summarise.rb

require "csv"

numbers = []
CSV.foreach(ARGV[0], "r") do |row|
  url, title, description = row
  match = title.match(/^(The)? ?([0-9]+)/)
  if match
    numbers << match[2].to_i
  end
end

puts "Minimum: #{numbers.min}"	
puts "Maximum: #{numbers.max}"
total = numbers.inject(:+)
puts "Total: #{total}"
puts "Articles: #{numbers.length}"
puts "Average: #{total.to_f / numbers.length }"
sorted = numbers.sort
median = numbers.length % 2 == 1 ? sorted[numbers.length/2] : (sorted[numbers.length/2 - 1] + sorted[numbers.length/2]).to_f / 2
puts "Median: #{median}"