A long time ago, when I was more of a news junky, I wrote some scripts to pull from various RSS feeds (BBC, Financial Times, Jane's, and one or two others), cra

A long time ago, when I was more of a news junky, I wrote some scripts to pull from various RSS feeds (BBC, Financial Times, Jane's, and one or two others), crack out the text of recent items, and format into a five-column, landscape-oriented PDF, with nice headlines, table of contents, etc. A cron job would see to running the pipeline every morning and emailing the result to me. When I got to work, I would print it out and read it on breaks throughout the day, crossing off items once I read them or decided they weren't relevant. With a red pen, I could also mark it up and make small notes on interesting items. Curl, BeautifulSoup, and Latex. Great fun.