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A few days ago JWZ did a "fortune" program for xscreensaver that churns out the latest in the Livejournal RSS feeds. Brilliant! I say, I've got to make my own too. Being lazy, and not wanting to do all the work, I then take advantage of rawdog to do the dirty work of RSS aggregation for me, while I feed off its data like a vampire sucking off someone's blood. The result:

Thanks to python and the way pickles are done, I managed to get everything I needed without even the need to pry open rawdog's source code not that I need to pry open anyway, rawdog is open source. Here's how it's done:
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