From AICN:

SIX FEET UNDER Mastermind Alan Ball Is Developing a Vampire Show For HBO!! >[link]

Ball’s series is based on the series of novels by Charlaine Harris.

Variety.com source for AICN: [link]

Project is set in a world where vampires and humans co-exist after the development of synthetic blood. First book, "Dead Until Dark," revolves around a waitress in rural Louisiana who meets the man of her dreams only to find out he's a vampire with a bad reputation.

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For future trivia use:

Rosa Parks is not the first African American to lie in state under the US Capitol rotunda. That honor goes to Jacob Chestnut, a Capitol police officer killed in the line of duty in 1998.

Parks is, however, the first woman to lie in state.

First woman of any ethnicity?

O holy crap. I think our Chief Operating Officer just walked.

ETA: And now I'm getting the super seekrit tip-off that our IT guy just gave his notice.

CRAXINESS!!!1! I don't need this on a Friday afternoon, I really don't.

Yup.

What does it mean to "lie in state"?

Yup.

Wow. That took longer than I would've expected, though I'm not sure who I would've expected to be the first, given that we haven't had a woman POTUS, both women in SCOTUS are still alive, etc.

What does it mean to "lie in state"?

Wikipedia really does have everything: [link]

Lying in state is a term used to describe the tradition in which a coffin is placed on view to allow the public at large to pay their respects to the deceased. It traditionally takes place in the principal government building of a country.

Just woke up from a 4 hour nap. I had very strange dreams about a secret society behind everything and having many pine needles stuck in my skin. Also, I was sometimes a man, a psychiatrist and I looked like Julien McMahon.

I note the Zingermans ultimate goodie box doesn't have a price listed -- I assume this is on the theory that if you have to ask, etc..