Sick of the /. effect? Got a site you want to save to your local PC for quick, offline access later? Use wget like so:
wget -r -l1 -k -np -nH -P local_directory http://www.busysite.com/mirror_me/
This uses the wget utility built into almost all Linux distros, and parameters tell it to make a mirror in local_directory, recursing 1 level deep, converting the links to local ones, not ascending to the parent directory, and not writing hostnames to directories. More info at the wget man page.