Creating Directory Style View

I’m going to / want to modify my blog so the front page is structured more like you would see a directory, or say the drudge report. For instance instead of the typical blog front page that reads like this.

1
2
3
4

mine will read like this…

1 3
2 4

I’m guessing that I can do this with two loops in the php code, but I wanted to know if anyone else had already tackled this problem before I gave it a go?

Thanks for any insight.