The clowns who run the Seattle Times's website block all non-browser user-agent requests to their RSS feeds. Except curl. You can "curl" their RSS feed. You

The clowns who run the Seattle Times's website block all non-browser user-agent requests to their RSS feeds. Except curl. You can "curl" their RSS feed. You can open it in a browser. Anything else that doesn't lie about its User-Agent will fail. W T F. Somebody please go strangle those people. I had to set my RSS feed reader to impersonate curl's User-Agent.