{"id":3492,"date":"2009-06-22T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2009-06-22T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:55:07","slug":"monday-various-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>   <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/497229.html\">Liz Hand asks<\/a>, &#8220;So do kids even know about dummies anymore, let alone know to be scared of them?&#8221; If they follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/arts\/design\/22private.html?hp\">the link she provides<\/a>, I think they will be. I know some of those dummies scare me.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Say&#8230;wanna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17213-competition-win-a-piece-of-moon-rock.html\">win a piece of the moon<\/a>? You have until June 29. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/\" title=\"SF Scope\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Dan Meth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/danmeth.com\/post\/124593834\/futuristicmovietimeline\">Futuristic Movie Timeline<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/\" title=\"SCI FI Wire\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/harold-ramis,29410\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=channel_film\">Harold Ramis on <em>Ghostbusters<\/em><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">The comic edge of <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> will always be the same. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ancient Sumerian deity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enough, people will think you read a book and you know something.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And finally, though you&#8217;ve probably seen it already, here&#8217;s the very funny John Hodgman at the Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner:<\/font><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yW7OPByRGDY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yW7OPByRGDY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Hodgman himself talks about it in a little more detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areasofmyexpertise.com\/2009\/06\/i-was-just-on-the-radio\/\">here<\/a>, suggesting, &#8220;If the protesters in Iran have never heard of Doctor Who, their efforts now are undeniably geekish.&#8221; <\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Hand asks, &#8220;So do kids even know about dummies anymore, let alone know to be scared of them?&#8221; If they follow the link she provides, I think they will be. I know some of those dummies scare me. Say&#8230;wanna win a piece of the moon? You have until June 29. [via] Dan Meth&#8217;s Futuristic &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3492\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}