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Indiana Jones remains one of my top all time favorite movies. Anyone that doesn’t agree with me should be thrown into a pit of snakes.

The key to this extremely successful series of movies is it’s star, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones who breathed life and provided a realistic dimension to the character. Originally, Tom Selleck was cast as Indiana and truthfully I don’t think it would have conveyed itself as well. It’s hard to imagine Magnum P.I. as a whip cracking artifact slueth. However, it’s never hard to imagine an action role for Harrison Ford especially since this has been the bulk of his work in the past 20 years.

Ever since his beginnings in the 1960s in a few forgettable roles, he’s conveyed a sense of determination. It wasn’t until his role in 1977’s Star Wars that truly let this actor flex his ‘acting’ muscle and show the public he could do action and act! (Unlike some other actors who flex their muscles and spit out their lines worse than a 3rd grade play).

Indiana Jones had all the successful ingredients of modern movies mixed with the key elements of 40s and 50s serials. It kept the audience on the edge with Indiana getting himself into many interesting and dangerous predicaments. Like for instance his daring escape from a rolling boulder and collapsing booby trapped doors. The magic of these movies is essentially captured on screen through the excellent writing, acting and special effects. It was truly one of a kind.

A great site containing a wealth of information about the Indy movies is Indyfan.com. It’s at this site I learned that the DVD portion of the Indy series will be coming out soon. I’m thinking it might be timed with the Indiana Jones 4 movie coming out in 2005.

Can’t wait.

Part of the greatness that is the Internet is providing information to the general public that wouldn’t otherwise be presented. The best example of this is those zany sites that contain weird experiments and projects. The kind that when someone has nothing else to do or they just are sitting around one day and it pops into their mind.

For instance, have you ever thought about torturing poor little Twinkies? These guys have and they document it here. Since it was Easter yesterday, have you ever pondered an experiment involving Peeps? Well, Peepresearch.org has. They have experiments and pictures to prove their hypotheses.

Aside from Twinkie torture, how about trying to get your sister a date and then videotaping it? This guy did it, check it out; The Date-my-Sister Project. While your at the site, check out his other tests and projects including the Fat Project. Funny stuff.

Now that I think about it, I wish I would have thought of this during junior high. Remember those stupid science projects you’d have to endure? You know, the ones where you had to buy the “poster board”, search for a feasible hypothesis and then gather the evidence and document “said” evidence on the white board. It didn’t stop there however. Eventually you’d have to turn the assignment in and it would be judged with all of the other “experiments”. A favorite of mine was the obligatory “potato battery” or “water fungus” projects.

I should have documented the torturing of Twinkies and mad scientist experimentation on Peeps. That would have been an easy A. Easy, for sheezy.

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