As to skipping the topics: if there were an easy way to filter the rss feed, I'd do so (it's on my list of "to-do's" to build my own feed reader). As it is, though, I really do wonder why there seems to be so many of the things, which I have to look at in the main feed. Perhaps there should be a separate feed for those types of things, rather than lumping them in with all of the other interesting things.