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Submission + - Preacher the series headed to HBO

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on Friday December 01, 2006 @12:49PM

ajs writes: "Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Preacher is now confirmed as an upcoming HBO series. For those that are unaware, Preacher was a mid-90s DC comics series that followed the exploits of a Texas preacher who becomes embroiled in a supernatural power strugle involving angels, devils, shadowy church organizations, John Wayne, his ex-girlfriend and his Irish drinking buddy. In concept, it's a bit like The Wizard of Oz as done by Tarantino and Troma Films. How or if HBO will sanitize it for TV is not clear."

Submission + - Babylon 5 direct to DVD project in production

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on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @12:05PM

ajs writes: "As previously announced, "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" is a direct-to-DVD project based on the popular series from the mid-1990s. Lost Tales first DVD, titled "Voices of the Dark" has now begun production. As usual, J. Michael Straczynski and Doug Netter will be running the show with Straczynski directing. The characters, President John Sheridan (Boxleitner), Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Scoggins) and the technomage Galen (Woodward) are returning. The Lost Tales is an anthology series of sorts with two movies (previously three) per DVD starting in 2007. Straczynski has commented on Usenet that a more CG-intensive installment is coming in the next batch, featuring the character of Michael Garibaldi (Doyle)."

Submission + - Pugs / alpha Perl 6 issues milestone

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on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @01:14PM

ajs writes: "Perl 6 has been a long time in coming, and it's not here yet but version 6.2.13 of Pugs was released today and the goal is now much closer. The Pugs sources actually contain two implementations of Perl 6: Pugs itself which is written in Haskell and v6, a Perl 6 to Perl 5 translator/emulator that allows you to mix Perl 6 and Perl 5 code. On the minus side, there has been very little work done on performance at this stage, so Perl 6 is still slow. On the plus side, most major language features are now supported, and the complex interaction of inline grammars or "rules" (a major step forward for old "regular expressions"); lazy lists; runtime object traits and mixins; and many other complexities are now in fairly good shape for continued development."

Submission + - California sues automakers for global warming

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on Wednesday September 20, 2006 @03:33PM

ajs writes: "Reuters is reporting that the state of California is suing automakers over global warming. California is claiming that automakers have "harmed the resources, infrastructure and environmental health," of the state. The targetted automakers are Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. , Chrysler Motors Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co."

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