An interesting little app reached beta status this week. NewsHawker, from Sugar Maple Software, is designed to work with my favorite feed reader, NetNewsWire.

Ever wanted to have someone read you the news? Well, now you can. NewsHawker is designed to do just that. NewsHawker speaks the items in NetNewsWire and can be configured to read only the headlines, just the bodies, or both.

I’m hoping that this little app can aid in my morning ritual of pouring through all the feeds that come in overnight. I typically read these with my first cup of java and only hit the highlights, but now I may be able to actually get a head start on the workload while having the news read to me.

Anyone else interested in this app? Let me know what you think if you’ve tried it.

One of my favorite new television shows is Survivorman on the Science Channel. In this show, Les Stroud is dropped off in some extreme location with no food, no shelter, and no fresh water. Les has to survive for 7 days in the extreme environment while lugging around 60 pounds of video equipment he uses to shoot all the footage.

Les teaches how to build shelter, build a fire, and find food by using only what the earth has to provide. The show does a fantastic job of showing what the human body can endure when faced with no food, no fresh water, and cold, wet clothing in sub-freezing weather for extented periods of time.

The show has been to the Artic, the Jungles of Costa Rica, the swamps of Georgia and even ventured out to show you how to survive a plane crash in the snowy forests of Ontario, Canada. Those are just a few places Les has been dropped off to survive in.

If you’re interested in learning more or catching the show live, hop on over to the Science Channel and catch a time when the show is airing. You’ll be glad you did and who knows, you may even learn a thing or to about survival.

Dear Passenger,

Please refrain from passing gas the entire length of a flight. Those around you do not want to spend an hour-and-a-half smelling your rotten carcass. Please refrain from eating whatever the hell it was that you ate and decided to unleash on the rest of us.

Sincerely,
Your Fellow Passengers

On the heels of the iPhone announcement from Apple, Inc., I belief the mobile world has been changed forever. I believe mobile computing will never be the same. I believe Steve Jobs is a genius. I believe Steve Jobs to be the most powerful man in the computing world.

iBelieve.