Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is now an Internet millionaire.

Declan McCullagh reports from the Microsoft trial with coverage more favorable to the evil monopolists … err … defendants.

Looks like Microsoft managed to piss off the judge again.

Are you a Unix geek who didn’t get to make it to this year’s USENIX conference? If so, you can check out what’s going on there using the Terminal Room Webcam. Hopefully most of the action is taking place off camera.

MemoWare is a large library of documents you can download to your PDA and carry around with you. I’m getting the Perl reference right now.

Here’s a list of all of the current and former names of countries around the world. The former names of places are prefixed with UF.

Palm Power magazine has an article explaining how to run Infocom adventure games for the PC on your Palm Pilot. Awesome. I don’t know why Activision or whoever doesn’t just release the whole collection for the Palm, I’m sure they could sell a ton of them, and the games are already written.

Ziff-Davis is reporting that Microsoft is now the browser leader. It seems less impressive when you consider that Internet Explorer is the browser in AOL, which is good for 12 million or so users by itself.

The guys at the Free Software Foundation are looking to pay someone $20,000 (you have to skip past some garbage in the email to get to the part about the book) to write a book about GNOME. The existing software documentation on the GNU web site is very good; I’ll be interested to see who accepts the offer.

I understand that News.com feels the need to define terms in ways that their audience can comprehend, unfortunately, sometimes their ultra-brief definitions are more humerous than useful. Take, for example, this definition of Unix from a story today: “Unix is a generic computer language or operating system that is not proprietary or owned by any single company.” Try again, guys.