Everything is a remix, Raiders of the Lost Ark edition

"Shot-by-shot comparison of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973." Via these sites.

Link roundup

1. Lifehacker says Waze is the best turn by turn navigator for Android and iOS (and free).

2. The new media tools that allowed Martin Luther's message to spread virally. Via.

3. Tips for hacking Scrabble.

4. The beginning of a terrific, long article about a very small town pharmacist:

In the southwestern corner of Colorado, where the Uncompahgre Plateau descends through spruce forest and scrubland toward the Utah border, there is a region of more than four thousand square miles which has no hospitals, no department stores, and only one pharmacy. The pharmacist is Don Colcord, who lives in the town of Nucla. More than a century ago, Nucla was founded by idealists who hoped their community would become the “center of Socialistic government for the world.” But these days it feels like the edge of the earth. Highway 97 dead-ends at the top of Main Street; the population is around seven hundred and falling. The nearest traffic light is an hour and a half away. When old ranching couples drive their pickups into Nucla, the wives leave the passenger’s side empty and sit in the middle of the front seat, close enough to touch their husbands. It’s as if something about the landscape—those endless hills, that vacant sky—makes a person appreciate the intimacy of a Ford F-150 cab.

5. How to turn Christmas ornaments into hot air balloons.

6. I haven't watched it yet, but Mr. Plinkett reviewed Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (Presumably filled with very dark humor.)

Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods

"Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods was an early version of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull written by Frank Darabont. It's not clear how many different drafts Darabont did write but it seems that George Lucas read two or three versions of the script before finally rejecting it in 2004. In an interview with MTV, Darabont said that this rejection represented the loss of a entire year of his work."

Various download links for the script in this thread.

This week's Threadless t-shirts

Three of this week's new Threadless t-shirts:



The Three Trials by Enrique Cabeza Mogollo.




Eye See What You Did There by Jonah Block.




Diamonds Are Forever by Steve Wierth.

Documentary on the making of Raiders of the Lost Ark

Part one of a fanmade documentary by Jambe Davdar on Indiana Jones. Well-edited, and full of fascinating facts:



He also created a two-hour video on Star Wars:

Costume roundup

Wampa pug. Via.



Halloween at Laika gallery.



Melting face from Raiders of the Lost Ark.




Samurai Batman and aeronaut from a Halloween contest (you can vote for them at the links). Batman is Dave Johnson.



Wayne and Garth.

*See more Halloween costumes here.