The site www.gaining-mass.com seems to be down right now but Draven had an excellent set of blocks on his homepage, where he had the last three or so articles in each news category displayed under it's category title, and in two columns. The effect is just like you'd see on CNN, under the world, technology, sports, politics, headers etc. Is there any documented way to do this or does anyone have any idea of how to start to approach it?

I think if memory serves me right Draven cloned the articles module or soapbox ( some thing simalar ) to do that .

But i could be wrong tho .