i've been thinking of doing something like this (but never getting round to it) – a really boring news page, pulling in extremely local news from around the work, and absolutely no mention of global "interesting" news stories. a kind of google news in reverse.

Good one mate.

Closer to the news that matters :d

this reminds me of the Fark radom generator
http://www.somethingawful.com/richkyankassa/

Awesome, thanks!