FYI - The newer builds of Eazel Nautilus in Ximian Gnome (AFAIK, it's Ximian-specific) have an option for a 'news' tab that lets you watch RSS feeds, in a fairly customizable (and pretty; it's antialiased) way. Also, I just submitted a feature request to Buzilla to make RSS output to queries available - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82878 -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/