The First Trailer For Preacher is Here And It’s Intense

The First Trailer For Preacher is Here And It's Intense

For years, fans probably never believed we’d get to see a live-action adaptation of the incredible comic series Preacher. But now, finally, you can watch the first trailer from the show, which will premiere in 2016.

Produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, a preacher who is on the hunt to find God. Literally.

What do you think of the trailer?

See a better version at AMC.com.


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The First Trailer For Preacher is Here And It’s Intense

Watch The Inspiring Movie ‘CODEGIRL’ For Free On YouTube Until November 5th

Screen Shot 2015-11-01 at 1.36.06 PM Alphabet, which backs diversity in all facets of technology, is helping to shed light on a specific project…a film called “CODEGIRL“. It comes via filmmaker Lesley Chilcott, who you might be familiar with from her work on “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for Superman.” Countdown 2 @codegirlmovie! 12noon PT launch today on @YouTube.… Read More


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Start Your Halloween Right by Watching Elephants Pulverize Giant Pumpkins

Everybody has their own Halloween tradition, whether it’s taking chocolate from strangers or doing shots of vile, candy-corn flavored vodka. But the elephant family at the Oregon Zoo’s annual “Squishing of the Squash” its hands-down my favorite.

There’s something innately satisfying about four ton animals destroying half ton vegetables. And I think it’s fair to say the elephants enjoyed themselves, too.

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Every Linux Geek Needs To Know Sed and Awk. Here’s Why…

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Two of the most criminally under-appreciated Linux utilities are Sed and Awk. Although admittedly they can seem a bit arcane, if you ever have to make repetitive changes to large pieces of code or text, or if you ever have to analyze some text, Sed and Awk are invaluable. So, what are they? How are they used? And how, when combined together, do they make it easier to process text? What Is Sed? Sed was developed in 1971 at Bell Labs, by legendary computing pioneer Lee E. McMahon. The name stands for stream editor, and that’s kinda what it does….

Read the full article: Every Linux Geek Needs To Know Sed and Awk. Here’s Why…

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Download every ‘Tribes’ game for free

Fancy yourself a fan of playing awesome PC shooters online? Boy howdy, do I have a story for you: Developer Hi-rez Studios has released every game in its Tribes series for free on its website as part of the franchise’s 21st birthday celebration. That means everything from Starseige: Tribes to the free-to-play Tribes: Ascend is available right now, gratis. And you don’t even have to buy it a drink — the party’s on Hi-rez’s dime! As if you had any big plans for this weekend anyway.

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Watch the First Footage of the Planet’s Most Elusive Whale

Watch the First Footage of the Planet’s Most Elusive Whale

An international team of marine biologists has made the first-ever field observations of rare Omura’s whales—one of the least known species of whales in the world — while working off the coast of Madagascar.

Omura’s whales are so rare that scientists are not sure exactly how many exist.

“Over the years, there have been a small handful of possible sightings of Omura’s whales, but nothing that was confirmed,” noted lead author Salvatore Cerchio in a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution release. “They appear to occur in remote regions and are difficult to find at sea because they are small—they range in length from approximately 33 to 38 feet—and do not put up a prominent blow.”

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Cerchio, who works out of the New England Aquarium (NEAQ), says that all previous knowledge came from eight specimens of Omura’s whales taken in Japanese scientific whaling off the Solomon and Keeling Islands, along with a couple of strandings in Japan.

After a possible sighting near Madagascar in 2011, the team decided to relocate their efforts to the region. It proved to be an excellent move, resulting in the two year study, the details of which now appear at Royal Society Open Science.

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Five different individuals

“This is the first definitive evidence and detailed descriptions of Omura’s whales in the wild and part of what makes this work particularly exciting,” he says.

The researchers observed 44 groups and were able to collect skin biopsies from 18 adult whales. These samples were sent to Northern Michigan University for DNA analysis, the results of which confirmed the species as being distinct. Up until recently, some scientists thought that Omura’s whales were actually Bryde’s whale.

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Cerchio’s team documented various physical and behavioral characteristics of the whale.

They’re mostly dark gray, but have a prominent white patch on their right lower jaw. They lunge feed, which means they subsist on a steady diet of zooplankton. The presence of so many mothers with young calves suggests that the study site was at or near a breeding habitat where females give birth. The team was also able to make recordings of Omura’s whale song, which appears to be a male-limit trait (which isn’t unusual among whales, including sperm whales).

Read the entire study at Royal Society Open Science: “Omura’s whales (Balaenoptera omurai) off northwest Madagascar: ecology, behaviour and conservation needs”.

[ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ]


Email the author at george@gizmodo.com and follow him at @dvorsky. All images by Salvatore Cerchio.

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