Read Drupal planet RSS feed and show it on screen. Needs python and feedparser ($ sudo aptitude install python-feedparser)

planet.py

import feedparser

def color(this_color, string):
    return "\033[" + this_color + "m" + string + "\033[0m"


print
print color('34', '-' * 70)
print color('1;34', ' ' * 10 + 'D R U P A L    /   P L A N E T')
print color('34', '-' * 70)
print

python_wiki_rss_url = "http://drupal.org/planet/rss.xml/" 
feed = feedparser.parse( python_wiki_rss_url )

for item in feed['items']:
    print color('30', ' >> ') + color('1;37', item['title']) + '\n    ' + color('32', item['link'])