I've written a patch that adds jeff's news as additionalText/Tooltip. Don't know if anyone else than me is interested in this, but I figure posting it here doesn't hurt. :p

diff -crB 92107-questionable_content/contents/code/main.es qc_neu/contents/code/main.es
*** 92107-questionable_content/contents/code/main.es 2009-02-07 15:19:55.000000000 +0100
--- qc_neu/contents/code/main.es 2009-08-11 14:17:13.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 51,56 ****
--- 51,62 ----
return;
}

+ re = new RegExp("<div id=\"news\">[<br/>\\s]*(.+)</div>\\s<script type=\"text/javascript\">");
+ match = re.exec(data);
+ if (match != null) {
+ comic.additionalText = match[1];
+ }
+
re = new RegExp("href=\"([^\"]+)\">Merchandise</a>");
match = re.exec(data);
if (match != null) {

I'm sorry it took that friggin long to reply [1]. I'll look into it.

[1] Is there a setting to get mails when someone writes a comment on one of your commits?