All about me

Good call, Simon! Me, either:

Simon Cowell says he has not watched an episode of Fox's American Idol since he left the show.

Oh, wait. I didn't watch the version with you in it, either. Never mind.

My friend and I were going to watch the Super Bowl with a certain amount of detachment. Since neither my Colts nor my Bears made it in, and her Lions continued their streak of never being in the big game, who cared who won? This was especially true because we had a dislike bordering on the pathological for both the Steelers and the Packers. Maybe it would be fun to watch the game without rooting for either team, or even actually rooting against both of them. That way we could just enjoy the commericials without the silly distraction of a football game.

Is this the future?

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of tech and media chroniclers gathered Wednesday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for a first look at the debut edition of The Daily, News Corp.'s experimental iPad "newspaper."

OK, that's it. I've had enough of winter, so I hereby declare that spring begins tomorrow. I'm a blogger, after all. I can do anything.

Well, maybe I should call on Phil for an assist:

Borders seems to be near bankruptcy; it's delaying more payments to vendors and landlords to preserve cash. In the meantime, ebooks for the Kindle outsold paperbacks for the first time:

An odd little list of state rankings has been published called the United States of Shame. It purports to identify what each state is worst at. I don't want to take all the credit for the No. 1 ranking we got, but I will say it's nice to see that ll my hard work paid off:

This sounds like the greatest advance in communications technology since the Post-It note:

Virtual Hold Technology based in Akron, Ohio, provides a solution that allows callers to receive a callback without waiting on hold or losing their place in the phone queue. The company has added several new state labor departments to its list of government clients.

What is it they say? A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. A liberal is a conservative who just got arrested. I'm neither one of those, but . . .

Screwup of the day:

A pet cat has been summoned for jury duty in the U.S. - and has been told by courts he 'must attend'

Despite owner Anna Esposito's protestations that a mistake has been made, a jury commissioner has ruled that Sal must attend the court.

One of my new favorite sites is the hot word blog maintained by the folks at reference.com. Every day, they pick a word or phrase from the news and explain its origin, background and/or meaning.