Salon has a look at Paypal — how it started, some of the concerns around it, and how it’s currently faring.

From ApacheWeek: “Poised to be the largest gathering of Apache users to date, ApacheCon 2001 is being held in Santa Clara, USA in April. Registration at the ApacheCon site is now open and if you register for the conference in the next couple of weeks you can save up to US$200 off the entry fee.“

“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.