Google News
Google News, an interesting way to check out the news. It is in beta and probably been around for a bit, but I just took a look today after seeing yet another mention of it on a blog.

To me, this is one cool thing about reading blogs. Rather than surfing the web and trying to stay up on everything, I can find a few people whose opinions seem valid, and follow their links. This allows me to stay more up-to-date than usual, but w/o all the effort on my own part. That is how I used stating the obvious when it first came out.