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March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices

Zinside writes "Yahoo News is running a story stating that March of the Penguins may become the No. 2 documentary of all time at U.S. box offices." From the article: "The film, which follows a pack of Emperor Penguins during an arduous mating season, had grossed $18.4 million by Wednesday and was poised to surpass the $21.6 million for Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine. For 13 months, Jacquet and his crew braved Antarctic temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero - and winds up to 150 mph - to capture astonishing images of thousands of emperor penguins engaging in a mating and child-rearing ritual that is nothing short of astonishing. The Penguins are a miraculous species, capable of extreme heroism, self-sacrifice, sorrow and unshakable love."

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  1. DAMN YOU! by PrivateDonut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I got all excited for nothing!!! This has nothing to do with LINUX!

    This would have been a great April Fools joke, except make the blurb really vaigue, and make them (linux fan-boys - like me) believe someone did a documentary about them... yeah... fun times.

  2. beowulf cluster? by opti6600 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But can you make a Beowulf cluster out of them?