SuSE 8.1 illustrates MS’ fear. Windows killer around the corner [The Register]

We’re being spanked by Nokia – Gates. Making a Stink [The Register]

Yahoo! News – Music industry spins falsehood [lnk.to]

Dying for God. The author of “The Martyrs of Columbine” on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics. [Salon.com]

Flat-panel monitors pick up the pace. Lower pricing on sleek, flat-panels is spurring demand to new levels. Revenue generated by sales of the monitors is expected to surpass standard displays this year. [CNET News.com]

Congress Members Oppose GPL for Government Research. An anonymous reader writes “Rep Jim Davis(D-FL), Tom Davis (R-Va), Ron Kind … [Slashdot]

RealNetworks’ loss is Microsoft’s gain. RealNetworks reports a loss as Microsoft’s Windows 2000 streaming server takes a huge chunk out of the multimedia software company’s server revenue. [CNET News.com]
Real Networks per stream princing is a liabilty for them.

Microsoft buys online map competitor. The software giant will acquire Vicinity, a provider of online maps and directions, in a cash-for-stock transaction worth $96 million. [CNET News.com]

Attack on Net servers fails. The computers that serve as the address books for the Internet came under attack for about an hour in an apparently coordinated effort to cripple the Net. [CNET News.com]

“The Ring”. I couldn’t sleep! This clammy, creepy shocker brings the evil — and the surrealist influence — back to horror flicks. [Salon.com]