I've finally found a news aggregator for linux that I like: straw. It's easy to use and it works. The dependencies (gnome2, the newest gnome-python libraries) were a bit of a bear to get set up properly (read: many wasted hours discovering that debian's packaged pygtk sucks), but now that it's running I think I'm starting to get this whole news aggregation/syndication thing.

Currently listening to: Melvins - Lividity.