Ok, the warnings were explicit everywhere I looked. I picked up this from rexblog.com, who picked it up from Read Write Web. I guess that makes both sites pushers. I should have listened. I didn't. I downloaded and installed Snackr, which is an Adobe Air app that creates a river of news that scrolls up or across your screen from an opml file of feeds you provide. Yep, it is addictive.
Click on a feed as it scrolls (streams?) by, and the scroll stops and you get a popout window with the info you're looking at (full text if that is what is available in the feed, partial if not.)
Damn. More time lost.