This was a little project that I have just worked on in my spare time. I at some point realized that I spend way too much time trying to keep up with news and especially with social news sites like reddit. For this reason, I wrote some pretty basic scripts that crawl many news sites and aggregate all of the results to a database. Each day, any new stories are emailed to me along with a link to the original article. This allows me to just ignore the news for a few days if I need to get things done, but I am always able to come back to it at later date when I have more time. There used to be a web frontend for this, but it is now defunct.