Pointcast for Linux?

Anyone remember Pointcast? Back in the late 90's, this tool was a 'push' concept that downloaded headlines, quotes, stocks, and other article details to your PC and showed them in a sort of animated presentation via a screensaver. I found it fascinating. If an article or headline showed up I was interested in, I could pause the display and ask for information on that article.

With RSS feeds being available from just about every source, it just seems natural that we should be able to re-implement Pointcast using RSS feeds for data sources. I've seen some tools for MacOS that do thi (but only the headlines, and not really showing 'content', just sort of waving pretty headlines), but nothing for Linux that would actually summarize the feeds.

So who wants to write an XScreensaver plugin for this?


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