I know if you’re like me, you always look forward to this time of year — you know, when Time Magazine’s eagerly anticipated annual list of the 299 million least influential Americans hit the newsstands. I can’t believe I let my subscription lapse. Fortunately, the folks at The Onion are on top of this story and have filed the embedded video newsstory.

Favorite line: “He’s a claims adjuster and he went two years without making an adjustment. That’s amazing.”

This is a first. I’m blogging about somthing you can do with FeedDemon before Nick Bradbury. However, I’ll admit the reason I can beat him is that Typepad, where his blog is hosted, seems to be offline.

If you have an iPhone and use the desktop newsreader software, FeedDemon or Netnewswire and synch it with Newsgator.com, check out m.newsgator.com. Up until now, I’ve been using Google Reader as an iPhone newsreader, but I don’t like the redundancy of using both it and Netnewswire. Using m.newsgator.com, I have something that will synch with my desktop software.

Obviously, this works if you don’t use NetNewsWire or FeedDemon, but just NewsGator. However, the whole synching thing is what’s making me go oooh and aaah right now.

I know this is going to be hard to believe until you check it out, but the iPhone interface on m.newsgator.com is superior to the Google Newsreader via an iPhone — which I still think is great. Just not this great.

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I’ve tried to eschew the whole Michael Vick thing as I find the topic of dog-fighting disgusting. However, as the NFL-precedent that appears to be coming into play is a topic I’ve touched on during the past three falls (we’re moving in that direction, folks), I decided to point to this NY Times article about Vick and comment on the following sentence from it:

“The league has held off disciplining Vick in part because he does not have a lengthy history of legal trouble since entering the NFL, as players like Pacman Jones did when they were suspended.”

I believe we should go ahead and declare the word “Pacman” to be a verb, as in, “the NFL should Pacman him — suspend him until the matter works its way through the court. If that takes six months, then Pacman them for six months. After the courts have their say, then the NFL can tack on any additional league penalties it wants.”

The phrase “Michael Vick does not have a lengthy history of legal trouble” can be easily translated: “Michael Vick has never been caught before.” To believe otherwise would require the suspension of ones common sense in knowing dog-fighting at the level to which Vick was involved is not something that suddenly just happens.

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  I haven’t looked, but I can easily guess what Samir Husni’s take on this will be. Quote from article: “Part of the problem is that the people responsible for buying advertising in magazines are about 30 years old.”
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