“Many of you are already aware of a program known as The GIMP, known for being a somewhat powerful graphics
and photo manipulation program with the status of being Free software. It surprises me how many people have looked
at my simple doodlings and asked, ‘How did you do that???'” Find out how at LinuxDrivel.

A Python environment has been ported to the Palm, as reported by Slashdot. Pippy, as the port is called, works by having the vm execute the python files on the Palm.

Daily Radar believes it knows what geek guys like in this rendition of an ideal Geek Girl. Remember that not everyone may share their opinion.

The Atlantic Monthly reports on a patented device to remotely monitor people via an implant. While listing several legitmate uses for such a mechanism – armies monitoring their troops in battle, doctors monitoring their patients from afar – it calls serious attention to the privacy threat created by such a device.

Daily Radar reports on the first public view of both Doom III and the GeForge 3 graphical processing unit, at MacWorld Expo in Tokyo.

Computer World reports that the US Department of Defense is planning to build a 512 CPU Linux cluster, purportedly to help track and fight forest fires. The cluster will be based in Hawaii.

ZDNet reports that Sega is suing KMart over millions of dollars of unpaid bills for the Sega Dreamcast.

ISP World gives detailed instructions on using Linux applications and libraries under FreeBSD.

“When I first heard the news of DVD encryption being cracked, allowing Unix
users to view DVDs, I was quite skeptical. I couldn’t even get Quake III
Arena running for more than ten minutes without taking down my entire
machine, and that was put out by Loki Games FOR Linux. To my surprise, not only was DVD playback possible, it was much easier
then I expected.” Get the full details at Linux.com.

EE Times reports that London’s Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd. has pledged to deliver an all-CMOS 802.11a Bluetooth chip that will deliver 54MB/second wireless networking. The new hardware should be ready for distribution in the summer of 2002.