What is RSS?
It's basically a way to keep track of various sites without having to visit them almost constantly- such popular sites as CNN or BBC keeps various RSS "feeds" available for the public.
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The Cornstalker Collective keeps two such RSS feeds available for ease of use.
Basic news from the front page.
Constant feed of updates by the various webcomics (available through Yahoo Pipes). Does not include Pimpette and Associates (due to lack of RSS feed) and Tales of the Traveling Gnome (for irregular CSS feed)