I'm actually going to try and start focusing on sharpening my CSS skills, but wanted to post this here for when I was up to PHPing again. I was browsing through the php-princess site and noticed how they had the headlines from other blogs in their sidebar. And I can't see a toy and not want it so I went on an investigation to try and figure it out. I emailed them, but they didn't get back right away so I contacted the other authors here to see if they knew.
Christine, passed the email onto Mike who came up with this code (demo)
Kristine also weighed in saying it looked like what she does on the mt plugins syndication page. She uses the MT-RSS Feed plugin and the MT-List plugin together. More info here and an overview tutorial here.
Daynah was finally able to respond and said they actually got a script from here.
Heh. More proof of how there's more than one way to scape a site. ;0)