- Liz Hand asks, “So do kids even know about dummies anymore, let alone know to be scared of them?” If they follow the link she provides, I think they will be. I know some of those dummies scare me.
- Say…wanna win a piece of the moon? You have until June 29. [via]
- Dan Meth’s Futuristic Movie Timeline. [via]
- Harold Ramis on Ghostbusters:
The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It’s still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You’re always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before. People may have actually thought there was a Zuul or a Gozer. You say “ancient Sumerian deity,†and that’s enough, people will think you read a book and you know something.
- And finally, though you’ve probably seen it already, here’s the very funny John Hodgman at the Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner:
Hodgman himself talks about it in a little more detail here, suggesting, “If the protesters in Iran have never heard of Doctor Who, their efforts now are undeniably geekish.”