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Quite easy really, you can use a number of approaches. As always regex is your friend:
Sed
sed -e 's/#.*//;/^\s*$/d' [file_name]
Grep
egrep -v '(^[ ]*#|^#|^$)' [file_name]
Perl
/usr/bin/perl while(<>) { print unless /^(#.+|\s+)$/ );
Make your own RSS Screensaver
Dan Fernandez blogged about a new screen saver starter that uses RSS feeds for its display content:
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/06/29/168449.aspx
Loosk like this is Microsoft’s first shipped product that includes RSS support. It’s the RSS “Screen Saver Starter Kit” in the newly-released Visual C# Express (click to download). The Express programming tools are newly-minted Visual Studio 2005 Express versions.