The trailer for writer-director-auteur Wes Anderson’s forthcoming film Moonrise Kingdom has dropped and it looks pretty fantastic. Set in the late 1960s, the film centers around a puppy love romance between two twelve year-olds that culminates in their running away, and the subsequent man hunt. Add Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, and (of course) Bill Murray, and it just gets even better. The 1960s setting and the very young cast are interesting moves for Anderson; he’s used a ’60s aesthetic in a lot of his movies and had very young actors in his movies before, but it will be interesting to see how his directoral abilities and stylized film making will work with the cast. I simply can’t wait for the slow-motion walking scenes and daddy issues. See the trailer, after the break.

Sometimes, you have an annoying morning. Your credit card maxes out on a train ticket, your computer crashes twice before noon, you forget your lunch and have to buy one, right after being reminded that you have no money to spare at the moment.

And then, you see this. Bill Murray. And pretty much all the things he has done to make you (aka “me”) happy. With the exception of Garfield, but the man needs to work. I will not begrudge him Garfield. But the Shakespeare-reciting bum in the Saturday Night Live short “Perchance to Dream” (precursor to today’s Digital Shorts) would have been nice, not to mention his turn in Jim Jarmusch‘s Broken Flowers. To say nothing of Bob! What about Bob?? But these will suffice. Thank you, Bill Murray, and thank you, Bill Murray Infographic.

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BoingBoing has unearthed a 1982 video featuring raw footage of Bill Murray, complaining (comedically) about dumb technological advancements of the early 1980s like digital watches (“People have hands, I think watches should have hands”), talking dashboards in cars (“I would put my foot right through that dashboard”), and robots (“R2-D2…he was funny, he was cute, he’s a fine, fine actor”).

YouTube user HomeStarRunnerTron made a neat musical remix of scenes from the hilarious 1993 classic Groundhog Day, quite possibly the only movie to ever successfully pull off a comedic suicide montage. HomeStarRunnerTron assures that each and every bit of the remix was lovingly crafted solely out of bits and pieces from the movie, some auto-tune, and nothing else.

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It’s hard to believe, but Bill Murray is 60 years old today. Murray was born in Wilmette, Illinois on September 21st, 1950; in 1976, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the show’s second season. After starring in Meatballs in 1979, Murray went on to star in a series of successful comedies in the ’80s, including Caddyshack, Stripes (above), and Ghostbusters.

He then went on to reinvent himself with his starring role in Rushmore in 1998, re-reinvent  himself with his starring role in Lost in Translation in 2003, kick ass in Jim Jarmusch films, accidentally star in Garfield because he thought it was a Coen Brothers movie, chill in his mansion in the middle of the zombie apocalypse in Zombieland, and hilariously passive-aggressively trash Ghostbusters 3 every chance he gets nowadays. In short, he is still a giant of comedy and a monument to reinvented relevance, and for this, we salute him.

Bill Murray got a little zany last night on Letterman. The actor dove into a dumpster swimming pool to promote his new movie Get Low, which, honestly,doesn’t look like the type of movie that the key demographic would be impressed by actors diving into dumpster swimming pools. Still though, Murray did it and he apparently hurt himself to as he then proceeded to give a lengthy interview while bleeding from the head.

Video below; more at Mediaite.

Bill Murray destroys Ghostbusters (The Playlist)

Apple vs. AT&T: The inside story (Wired)

Web 1.0 sites that were ahead of their times (Esquire)

One-star reviews of classic books (The Morning News)

How to make your own Guess Who game (Suicide Girls)

Apple makes most money evar (Gizmodo)

Woman wins Toy Yoda (Imgur)

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On last night’s Late Show, Bill Murray – who, you may recall, was David Letterman‘s first guest on his first show in 1982 — came on to discuss Ghostbusters 3, in which, the word on the street says, Murray will be returning to play sarcastic womanizing Ghostbuster Dr. Peter Venkman.

Murray said that he would be in Ghostbusters 3, but only if “they killed [him] off in the first reel,” and that they’d figured out a way to do it; this jibes with the rumor that he’ll play a ghost in the movie. In general, though, he seemed down on Ghostbusters: he called the movie his “nightmare,” and expressed doubt that it would ever actually be made (“it’s crazy talk”). He did have fond memories of making the Ghostbusters video game, though.

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Now surging on the always-interesting Woot Deals is the Ghost Meter EMF Sensor, an EMF detector that bills itself as “sensitive enough to detect the small, distinct, erratic EMF energy fluctuations frequently found at reputed haunted locations.” Perfect timing for the announcement that Bill Murray is going to be playing a ghost in Ghostbusters 3!

PROTIP: EMF stands for “electromagnetic frequency,” so other sources of EMF, like microwaves, cell phones, or The Island itself are capable of tripping it up.