Those of you fortunate enough to be using a current browser (Gecko or WinIE6) can see publishing dates of news feeds for some sites I've linked to in my bookmarks. If you know of a site I've linked to that has a news feed you can't see there - tell me, and I'll add it (MovableType users - you're supposed to be smart enough to figure it out yourselves. Blogger users - enable ATOM in your settings. LJ users - I haven't got a clue. ETA: LJ has atom feeds too).
This news aggregation capability (well, actually, it doesn't do anything with the news items themselves, just their publishing date, but that's irrelevant) came at a very high cost of your trully's sweat, blood and tears - use it wisely.
Secure browser users (I mean Gecko-based Firefox, Mozilla & Netscape): you must enable Codebase Principals for the feature to work. This allows the browser to ask you if you want to let my script perform some tasks through your browser. Yes, it doesn't make your browser accept insecure scripts, it just makes it ask the user whether you want to allow something, for each and every action, every single time it tries to perform it (thankfully, there is a "remember this setting" option). What this particular script does is asking the browser to contact a site you did not browse to (a bookmark's news feed) - for some reason, deemed a restricted action. Anyway, go to "about:config" (a pretty nifty page) and seek "signed.applets.codebase_principal_support" (there is a search option at the top). There, make the value "true". Reload this page, answer "yes". Enjoy. :)
