My first few reactions were "why can't I X" only to discover I could in fact X: Select my country, eliminate categories, etc. The only thing left is to perhaps rearrange the categories (business, then national, then world, e.g., but that's a quibble).

Zooming the page increases/decreases the number of stories per category, which is quite cool (if perhaps counter-intuitive, but OK). But would it be possible to have an absolute "no smaller than" minimum size for the menu? (I've zoomed in a few times via "ctrl -" and the menu bar is now unreadably small.)

On a related note, as I zoom in, I get more stories, but the font for existing stories remains the same as before the zoom, with their blocks occupying roughly the same amount of screen space as before the zoom; this means that newly added stories are in tiny blocks and tiny fonts: as I zoom, new stories become unreadably small.

It would be good to have an absolute "no smaller than" minimum for newly added stories as well, scaling down the size of existing stories; I'm OK with different font sizes for relative importance, but existing stories should decrease in size to accommodate new stories as I zoom to add more.

EDIT -- It would also be nice to be able to close particular boxes (display an X in the top right corner when I hover there?) and have that story replaced with another from that category.

(And it would be waaaay cool if there was some way to mark stories as seen and to not display them again... ...when I revisit the page, I only see things new since the last time, or not displayed the last time. That way, the page is always new. No idea how to do this without a server/account on your end, but it could be cool....)

Cool app. I am adding it to my regularly checked folder of news sites.