AmphetaDesk is a nifty perl program (mac/win/linux) that will grab your favorite blogs, newsfeeds, or whatever, and create a nice page for you locally to look at.
From the site:
AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage.