I have my Urban Terror gkrellm server monitor plugin running on my desktop all the time. It has one button on it that fires up UrT when you see a game going that looks fun (not good while you are trying to work). There are screenshots at that link.
I have also written a small server browser called strobe. I wrote it in perl just for fun, and it works pretty well. It works better for me than the in-game browser, but probably not as well as qstat (never tried it)
this screenshot shows strobe running, along with a 12 line perl script to query servers on the command line.
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