diff --git a/wp-admin/index.php b/wp-admin/index.php
index e383ead29..852602ea4 100644
--- a/wp-admin/index.php
+++ b/wp-admin/index.php
@@ -84,6 +84,23 @@ if (0 < $numcats) $numcats = number_format($numcats);
 <p>There are currently <?php echo $numposts ?> <a href="edit.php" title="posts">posts</a> and <?php echo $numcomms ?> <a href="edit-comments.php" title="Comments">comments</a>, contained within <?php echo $numcats ?> <a href="categories.php" title="categories">categories</a>.</p>
 </div>
 
+<?php
+$rss = @fetch_rss('http://feedster.com/links.php?url='. trailingslashit(get_option('home')) .'&type=rss&limit=6');
+if ( isset($rss->items) && 0 != count($rss->items) ) {
+?>
+<div>
+<h3><?php _e('Incoming Links'); ?> <cite><a href="http://feedster.com/links.php?url=<?php echo trailingslashit(get_option('home')); ?>"><?php _e('More'); ?> &raquo;</a></cite></h3>
+<ul>
+<?php
+$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 6);
+foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
+?>
+	<li><a href="<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>"><?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a></li>
+<?php } ?>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<?php } ?>
+
 </div>
 
 <h2><?php _e('Dashboard'); ?></h2>
@@ -94,15 +111,36 @@ if ( $rss ) {
 ?>
 <h3>WordPress Development Blog</h3>
 <?php
-$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 4);
+$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 3);
 foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
 ?>
-<h4><a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>'><?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a> &#8212; <?php echo human_time_diff( strtotime($item['pubdate'], time() ) ); ?> <?php _e('ago'); ?></h4>
+<h4><a href='<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>'><?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a> &#8212; <?php echo human_time_diff( strtotime($item['pubdate'], time() ) ); ?> <?php _e('ago'); ?></h4>
 <p><?php echo $item['description']; ?></p>
 <?php
 	}
 }
 ?>
+
+<?php
+$rss = @fetch_rss('http://planet.wordpress.org/feed/');
+//var_dump($rss);
+if ( $rss ) {
+?>
+<h3><?php _e('Other WordPress News'); ?> <a href="http://planet.wordpress.org/"><?php _e('more'); ?> &raquo;</a></h3>
+<ul>
+<?php
+$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 20);
+foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
+?>
+<li><a href='<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>'><?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a></li>
+<?php
+	}
+?>
+</ul>
+<?php
+}
+?>
+
 <br clear="all" />
 </div>
 <?php
diff --git a/wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php b/wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php
index 65583d874..dd298ea89 100644
--- a/wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php
+++ b/wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ CREATE TABLE $wpdb->options (
   option_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
   option_can_override enum('Y','N') NOT NULL default 'Y',
   option_type int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
-  option_value text NOT NULL,
+  option_value longtext NOT NULL,
   option_width int(11) NOT NULL default '20',
   option_height int(11) NOT NULL default '8',
   option_description tinytext NOT NULL,
diff --git a/wp-admin/wp-admin.css b/wp-admin/wp-admin.css
index 74a282555..58c3d5343 100644
--- a/wp-admin/wp-admin.css
+++ b/wp-admin/wp-admin.css
@@ -505,7 +505,12 @@ textarea, input, select {
 #zeitgeist h3 {
 	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
 	font-size: 16px;
-	margin: 1em 0;
+	margin: 1em 0 0;
+}
+
+#zeitgeist h3 cite {
+	font-size: 12px;
+	font-style: normal;
 }
 
 #zeitgeist li, #zeitgeist p {
diff --git a/wp-includes/rss-functions.php b/wp-includes/rss-functions.php
index e89e2a970..960c273d2 100644
--- a/wp-includes/rss-functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/rss-functions.php
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ function init () {
 	}
 	
 	if ( !defined('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT') ) {
-		define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 5);	// 5 second timeout
+		define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 2);	// 2 second timeout
 	}
 	
 	// use gzip encoding to fetch rss files if supported?