Just released: Game of Thrones Season 5 Trailer

Watch full screen. Game of Thrones season 5 starts on tax day (April 15).

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Need a Game of Thrones fix? Season 4 Bloopers

Great Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Visual Effects From Game of Thrones Season 4

Queen Elizabeth Visits Game of Thrones Set (and Pugs of Westeros)

Iron Throne Shoes.

For $20K, Game of Thrones Author Will Write You Into Future Novel Then Kill You Off

Valyrian steel, length of the seasons, dragon biology: The Science of Game of Thrones, bonus geological map.

If Game Of Thrones Characters Were Drawn By Disney

Game of Thrones infographic chronology: 4 seasons of the 4 main families and the Night’s Watch.

Peter Dinklage Summarizes Game of Thrones In 45 Seconds.

Super Mario Game of Thrones.

Video: Hodor (Kristian Nairn) Describes His Awkward Game of Thrones Nude Scene.

Game of Goats, A Yelling Goats Version of the Game of Thrones Theme Song.

Game of Thrones Wine Map: The Wines of Westeros.

Supercut of pithy quotes from Game of Thrones, Seasons 1-3.

Fallen behind on Game of Thrones, or want a refresher before Season 4? All 3 seasons recapped in 9 minutes.

Game of Thrones: new trailer and an interview with the actors on who should end up on the iron throne.

Deleted And Extended Scenes From Game Of Thrones Season 3 (NSFW - language)

The Game of Thrones Travel Guide.

Punxsutawney Phil has been correct 39% of the time since 1887

Groundhog Day (wiki) dates back to 1887 when Clymer H. Freas, city editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit, began promoting Punxsutawney's groundhog as the official Groundhog Day meteorologist. Records have been kept fairly regularly since the tradition began showing the ground-dweller's predictions. However, the National Climactic Data Center (NCDC),which has much more information, has also been keeping its records quite closely, and the results might disappoint Punxsutawney fans.

According to the NCDC the data "shows no predictive skill for the groundhog during the most recent years of this analysis. Since 1993, the U.S. national temperature has been above normal 11 times in February, 12 times in March, below normal 6 times in February, 3 times in March, and near normal 3 times in February and 5 times in March." Moreover according to Stormfax, Punxsutawney Phil has been correct just 39 percent of the time since the first recorded Groundhog Day in 1887.

More Groundhog Day/Super Bowl links!

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How To Fight A Baby. Also, how many 5 year olds could you take in a fight?

He should dress that child more appropriately.

That reminded me of this: How many 5 year olds could you beat in a fight?

Apparently, even though I'm old, slow and out of shape my willingness to fight dirty upped my score quite a bit. For example, one of the questions I answered in the affirmative was, 

"During the fight, would you feel morally comfortable picking up a child and using him/her as a weapon to throw at other children?"

Florida woman...

Florida Woman Poops Pants During Field Sobriety Test 

Florida Woman Tells Police She Knew Truck Was Stolen, But She Didn’t Know It Was “That Stolen”

Florida Woman Drowns Puppy in Airport Toilet So She Can Board Plane

Police Arrest 3-Breasted Florida Woman

Breast Implant Leak Delays Florida Woman's Bigamy Trial

Florida Woman Assaults Twin Sister During Argument Over Vibrator

And my personal favorite: 

Florida Woman Killed by Crack in Vagina

via @_Flor1daWoman

This high school teacher is so much cooler than any you had

Scot Pankey is the theater teacher at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School — and the co-star and director of the video you’ll find below, in which Pankey and his students dance around the school to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ "Uptown Funk".

He decided to make this their first project of the new year. And he told his students — from six different theater classes — that he’d do it with them … if they’d let him.

Original music video from the song. if you're interested:

More at Dallas Morning News

Monday links

German man went to court, won the right to pee standing up.

Why Do Sneezes Come In Twos and Threes?

Death-Defying Photos Of Skyscraper Construction Workers Goofing Around.

Scots, wha hae - yesterday was Robert Burns birthday. Here's a bio, poems, Burns Supper instructions, and lots of haggis.

Gallery of awkward mascots.

The Origin and Trademarking of “Couch Potato”.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include 100 year old PSAs on movie theater etiquette, repairing a $12 million Monet after it was punched, processing 31 rolls of undeveloped film taken by a WWII soldier, and the history of horsemeat eating in America.

Obama reacts to Netanyahu invite: cartoon of the day

via @AnneBayefsky

Who Would Win? A Fire-Breathing Dragon Or An AH-64 Apache Helicopter

From the Smithsonian Channel:

It's a battle of the beasts in this web-only original short! The mythic dragon takes on a lethal AH-64 Apache helicopter. Will a laser-guided missile, chain gun, or warhead have any effect on this fire-breathing legend?

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