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By Do The Extraordinary.

Funny military anecdotes

A Redditor:

By far, the best one was this one. There was an artillery unit that had a battery of 155 Howitzers that had nuclear ordnance. Their purpose was to destroy Anchorage and the surrounding areas in case of a Soviet invasion. My dad knew one of the artillerymen in the unit. Every so often, they would get orders to go off in the wilderness for training for a period of time. My dad told me that somebody (they never figured out who) made up some some dummy orders as a prank and sent these guys and their howitzers off for a field exercise that ended up lasting a few weeks. Then some real orders came through and nobody knew where these guys were and the shit hit the fan. Somehow, the Army had lost a battery of nuclear 155's and the Pentagon was severely pissed off. Eventually, the Army figured out what happened and the unit returned back to the base. My dad asked his buddy what he did during the time he was away, and he told my dad he spent a month just fishing at a nearby lake.

"Lets play a game. Take a snapshot of one of part of your room and people try to deduce as much information about you as possible from said picture. Lets call it 'Sherlocking'"

John Boyega's response to racist comments on the trailer

"To whom it may concern...Get used to it."

Stabilized views of the Falcon's maneuvers in The Force Awakens trailer

Millennium Falcon gifs courtesy of two Redditors.

*Buy die cast Millennium Falcon toys at ebay.

Carrie Kelly joins the Teen Titans Go! universe

Carrie Kelly and various other Robins will appear in next week's episode of Teen Titans Go!

*Buy Carrie Kelly toys at Amazon.

Pool toys curated by Friends With You (expensive).

The Lich, Rattleballs, and Betty from last night's episode of Adventure Time (Jake The Brick).

I woke this morning to find my 7 y/o levering my finger onto the TouchID sensor of my phone. Maybe time to go back to passwords.
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) November 25, 2014

Free the mosasaur

En Facebook ya hay una página de apoyo a la liberación del Mosasaurus. pic.twitter.com/Obs71Qgogd
— Álex Ramos (@Hominoide) November 27, 2014

The Force is with you on #BlackFriday when #TheForceAwakens teaser hits @iTunesTrailers.
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 26, 2014

As @jgold85 points out, warthogs are fierce and terrifying. But Bradley and Cooper are slow learners. A month later they tried again.
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 26, 2014

It soon turned into an inglorious and hasty fleeing retreat. #serengeti #mammalwatching #huntfail pic.twitter.com/Rehe3SPenx
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 26, 2014

Safety could only be found on top of a termite mound. That foiled the ferocious warthogs. #serengeti #mammalwatching pic.twitter.com/SGlxZuNRYd
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 26, 2014

$250 giant plush dinosaur.

Thanksgiving meals plated in the style of famous artists

From a series by Hannah Rothstein:

25 signed, limited edition prints available per image, $75 each. All prints 16" x 20", except the Sherman print, which is 16" x 18". %10 of profits will be donated to the SF-Marin Food Bank. For inquiries, write art@hrothstein.com.

Lladro ornaments by Friends With You.

I created a gif of the Sea World moment from the Jurassic World trailer.

*Buy Jurassic Park posters by Mondo at ebay.

Trolling college athletes by printing out jumbo sized-versions of their Tinder profiles.

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch by Tristan Jones.

Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love for an article in Scientific American.

Kevin Dart:

So this was pretty hard to keep secret the last few weeks. I actually designed a total of three posters for Interstellar and they all go together as a set! The water one on the left will be available at IMAX theaters this Thanksgiving Thursday and the space one on the right will be at AMC IMAX theaters this Thursday as well!

Sinestro commission by Dustin Harbin.

This screenshot from Assassin's Creed Unity is just perfect. pic.twitter.com/LYYmmCWbr3
— AlteredQualia (@alteredq) November 20, 2014

Seriously, who doesn't like cats?? Who doesn't like this? #mammalwatching pic.twitter.com/VkOCKBZBoI
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 24, 2014

Or this?? Crazy sick fools, that is who #mammalwatching pic.twitter.com/wO2ogpEDS0
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 24, 2014

Double cheetah tongues are a winner every time #mammalwatching #TeamCATS pic.twitter.com/KL2pdUwGC0
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 24, 2014

I mean, who doesn't think this is the most adorable thing evah?? #TeamCATS #mammalwatching pic.twitter.com/EIsu7FUiWt
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) November 24, 2014

"An NYPD psychologist who allegedly tried to murder her sleeping husband to be with her married lover also tried—and failed—to pin the crime on a burglar by staging the crime scene, prosecutors say."

Uncensored - Key & Peele - Aerobics Meltdown. (Like Too Many Cooks, 80's ephemera becomes something much darker....)

Fox loose in the museum

Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night pic.twitter.com/8o8CFVxyLO
— Soniasuponia (@Soniasuponia) November 22, 2014

Animated masks

Cleaning out my old saved items--monster masks that become animated when paired with your smartphone.

"Maybe being eaten alive is the default option in nature. Only if prey might injure you/escape do you bother to kill it first." Watching cheetahs hunt...

Sculptures by Jason Peltz for a cartoon villains-themed show.

Playthrough of the Aliens Armageddon arcade game.  (I wish it was called Let's Go Aliens!)

The beak of a colossal squid. [photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] pic.twitter.com/lWHWYw1XyQ
— Ziya Tong (@ziyatong) November 23, 2014

The coolest thing I own. #MiniMuseum by @hansfex. Billions of years of history in your hands. http://t.co/VPdQVcsEKe pic.twitter.com/cIdelcrw7i
— Anthony Petrie (@zombiebacons) November 20, 2014

Dancers from the New York Ballet perform exuberant video game-themed victory dances to promote the PS4

An overview of gameplay from the new X-Files board game (preorder for $40 at Amazon.)

Available next year--Dune illustrated by Sam Weber.

Apparently this billboard is up right now at Olympic and La Cienega in Los Angeles.

Nightmarish bug of the day--gall wasps, which trick trees into growing custom made homes for their larvae. Via.

Stray Dog Joins Team, Completes Grueling Race

As the team prepared to embark on the final section of the race- a 59 km coastal kayak – race organizers warned against taking Arthur as it would be difficult and dangerous. The team respected this and started off, leaving Arthur on shore. He refused to be left, though, and started swimming after the team. This was too heartbreaking to witness so Mikael quickly helped Arthur into the kayak, to the cheers and applause from the bystanders on shore.

Via.

This is the "voodoo doll" in the super-racist voodoo episode of "Murder, She Wrote" and I can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/S5V04hcgiQ
— Patricia Lockwood (@TriciaLockwood) November 18, 2014

"Night of the Tarantula" is on Netflix (with John Rhys-Davies).

Journey by Guillaume Guerillot.

Ken Block's Gymkhana Seven: Los Angeles.  (Here's wallpapers of the car.)  (And the making of.)

Gorbachev made HW Bush try and get Lynch to admit who killed Laura Palmer pic.twitter.com/Bb1E1yNEGu
— Ryan Hamilton Walsh (@JahHills) November 16, 2014

From Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, available at Amazon.

The Vanishing Game--a free interactive novel and website written by a James Bond author for Land Rover

William Boyd, who recently wrote James Bond novel, was commissioned by Land Rover to write a thriller featuring the brand. The result is called The Vanishing Game. The novel, which you can download for free at Amazon, is more a parody of GQ than successful story. But the companion site is impressive. A narrator performs the book as beautiful full screen images play in the background. You can pause the action at various hyperlinks to enjoy the visuals.