At work, whether my employer likes it or not, I have a Firefox window open at all times during the day. It always has at least four tabs open. One of them is the empeg board for example. Two of them are Engadget and Joystiq (for video games). Any time I have a break, all I do is hold my pinky on the left CTRL and keep hitting R, TAB, R TAB, etc until I've gone through all of them and I read all the new items.

So, being a reader who at least skims every single Engadget post, I knew about the Apple event beforehand, although as Matthew K mentioned, nobody knew exactly what they were going to show off.

I'm still not that big on RSS. I'm much happier going to the actual site.