What
would happen if Tux went to a famous portrait artist to get a
makeover?
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/">Modigliani
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli">Botticelli
This was done using the method
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/07/patches_modiglianized.php">described
previously.
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