Some good news on this bad news day...AnimSchool releases today our AnimSchool Picker for Softimage! Free to download:
http://www.animschool.com/DownloadOffer.aspx
Nearly identical in function to the Maya one shown in the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUe1YbPAPkAvailable for Windows. If anyone would like to help get it compiled on Linux, please contact me.
Thanks! Dave G