There are a number of article recommendation engines out there that can fill the need for "outlier" articles fitting even the most peculiar tastes. I personally use http://www.euraeka.com and even though it aggregates news from less hardcore programming sources I find it an incredibly powerful source of science and technology news that fit my taste. I tried Digg and Reddit recommendation engines but they all work on user-to-user based recommendations and most of the time i get either inaccurate or trivial recommendations.
