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JosefK writes: "Film & Video is running an interesting and fairly in-depth article on the technology that's been used by Peter Jackson's crew and WETA for the production of the Lord of the Rings. From satellite video feeds for overseeing remote shoots, to the development of WETA's Massive program for depicting large scale battle scenes with tens and hundreds of thousands of "agents" (and it runs on Linux!), the article covers the gamut of the interesting things Peter Jackson's been doing Down Under." And Salon is running a lengthy article on the increasing use of Linux in the special effects industry.

An anonymous reader sent us a Report on Open Source Summit that you might want to read. I was scheduled to attend, but LinuxWorld drained me to much- I'm kinda bummed, but this article will give you a good overview of what apparently happened. Its the Open Source world colliding with the biz world, and the sparks definitely fly.

I tell ya, the end of the year is when all the cheesy awards things come out of the woodwork. First off, you can still vote for Slashdot as Cool Site of the Year. First prize is a new guitar (mmmm). Next Newswire has named Slashdot as winner of the "Community" section of it's Big 14 roundup. tapwater wrote in to say that The Guardian ranked us as one of the Top 10 Sites of 98. Modbuster wrote in to tell us that PlanetClick.com gave us 'Coolest Site'. Finally Norman Jordan says that @Home Network gave Slashdot a five star rating and ranked it as the best site overall for 1998.

Torbjörn Mattsson writes "One of the best writers of BYTE magazine has put up a FAQ about the recent buyout and closure of BYTE on his homepage. Apparently BYTE had too much subscribers! "

Michael Knepher writes "There's a short, unsigned editorial at PCWeek, talking about Mozilla and how it's a good thing to support free software."