Any of you LOTR fans?

[Dustin Decker]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 admin at kclinux.net wrote:

> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1046864,00.asp
> 
> "In case you haven't met him yet, Gollum is one of the stars of The Lord of
> the Rings: The Two Towers. He's a sickly, pale creature on a quest to find
> the Ring. But he's not played by a human actor. He's a computer-generated
> image created on the hottest server platform to hit mainstream corporate
> computing: Linux."

Not entirely correct - he's played by a human being who wears a blue suit 
(and when in ice cold water, a wet suit) later to be enhanced by 
computers.

Good stuff none the less...
D.

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