As I sit here, ssh'ed to my shell server while Gentoo is building, it sure would be nice to have a few more statically linked binaries on the CD. To name a few: lynx, links, BitchX, epic4, and various others (Terminal games, etc..) But, at least, a web browser and a irc client sure would be nice ;)
The w3m webbrowser is excellent for textmode.
You can ssh out to another machine and do all this :)