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    His Dark Materials - new BBC series

    The BBC are teaming up with New Line Cinema to adapt this for TV. There's no word on when it's due to come out, but hopefully it will work out better than the film. His Dark Materials set to become BBC One drama series - BBC News
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    How to hide a train for 70 years - but is the gold there?

    If you've read the novel Cryptonomicon then this story might sound familiar. For the moment, it's still just a story. Live updates on the thread link Nazi gold train 'found' in Poland: live - Telegraph
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    RIP Christopher Lee :(

    Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 | Film | The Guardian The guy had an amazing life and career. Little known fact: unofficially he was in British Special Forces in WWII, the Long Range Desert Group, and after Germany surrendered, part of a team tasked with hunting down Nazi war criminals.
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    Sony Pictures to slash film production unit - but expand the world of Spider Man

    Sony Pictures will make a "significant shift" away from movies after it backed a number of high-profile misfires, including Will Smith's After Earth....The studio aims to cut its release schedule from 23 films per year to 18...Putting some of the blame on the crowded blockbuster season, Sony...
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    Goldsboro Revisited or: How I learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-carolina-1961
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    Man creates own credit card and sues bank for breaking the terms

    "When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking. But he didn't throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems...
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    Masters of Orion and Total Annihilation franchises go to World of Tanks

    "World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net has bought the Total Annihilation and Master of Orion franchises from Atari, it has confirmed. Both properties were bought following the Atari IP auction that closed last month. Wargaming beat Monday Night Combat developer Uber Entertainment to Total...