Scotty, I know you already have pleanty of suggestions coming in. What about an RSS Reader? I use RSSOwl (
www.rssowl.org) on my linux desktop. It's a nice (small-ish) gnome app. I'd imagine it'd fit right in on the Illiad.
Edit: Nevermind, I just realized it's a Java App, and takes up a good amount of memory when it's running. I guess it just has the appearance of being lightweight.