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Does James Franco Have A Master Plan?

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There is simply no limit to what interests him. “I don’t like being bound,” he told BuzzFeed at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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TORONTO — James Franco has three movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and considering Jonah Hill called his project philosophy "One for them, five for no one" during the Comedy Central roast of Franco, the range is quite interesting.

There's a commercial romance drama co-starring Mila Kunis and Liam Neeson called Third Person, which should be an audience pleaser; another, based on Franco's book Palo Alto, which stars bright young actors and was directed by Gia Coppola; and the third is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God that Franco directed, which centers on a serial killer-necrophiliac living in the backwoods of a rural Tennessee town in the 1960s.

The actor-director-screenwriter-producer-author-artist-student-professor (really, there aren't enough hyphens to fully facilitate a proper title for Franco's résumé) has heard the criticism, but he's not all that concerned with mainstream perception of his more esoteric endeavors, as one of his three films at TIFF proves.

Despite strong early reviews, Child of God will not be an easy sell, but Franco doesn't mind the challenge. In fact, he loves playing the game.

"I don't like being bound. I don't like being bound by a certain discipline, meaning acting isn't going to allow me to express all I want to do, so I direct and do other things," Franco told BuzzFeed. "And I also don't like being bound by mediums or distribution outlets, meaning there are certain expectations for commercial cinema, so if I want to make a video piece or an art piece or film piece that isn't so worried about narrative and wants to emphasize something else, then I'll find a different outlet... It is a matter of categorizing and it is a strategy, not in the sense of putting anything over on someone, it's more about I have these interests. Where is the audience for this project? Where is the audience for this project? And maybe it's one of the reasons why it seems like I'm all over the place, but it's really just kind of giving each project its due, and also enabling me to continue with each of them.

"If I want to do something like Birdshit that has sort of a narrative, but really, it's more about the dance and the projections and presentation, PS1 [the Museum of Modern Art art institution in New York City] is the perfect place for that," he continued, speaking of the performance art/dance piece he helped put on in April. "If I took that to Laemmle's [the Los Angeles art house chain] or the AMC, people would say, 'Fuck you, James!' If I take it to PS1, expectations are different and I can play with the form more."

Understanding that difference in audience — and thus return on investment — is a crucial aspect of keeping his ambitions sustainable. When Franco took his BDSM movie Kink to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, he knew it would get attention, which allowed it to play at other, smaller festivals around the world. Because it was produced on a low budget, much like Child of God, the movie could survive in that more niche world.

"Knowing Child of God is a movie with a very difficult subject matter, I'm going to figure out a way to do it," Franco explained. "A lot of people have tried; Tim Blake Nelson told me way back when, Sean Penn tried to make this and Tim was going to direct it and Sean was going to produce it, and they didn't. And part of that is the money. So what I've figured out is how to make it good, but for a responsible budget, so that I don't have to go and appeal to Avengers-sized audiences. I can appeal to the art house audience, and that will be enough."

Yes, Child of God certainly will be an art house entrant, but it also has more mainstream roots. Though, given his public profile, it's almost hilariously on-the-nose that Franco would make a movie about a serial killer-necrophiliac, it's not his idea, and he's not even stealing it from the avant-garde. The film, which is based on the 1973 Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, was well-reviewed upon its recent premiere in Venice.

And if anything, Franco had to work to make the book more palatable to an audience, given the horrors on the page that detail the life of Lester Ballard, a troubled, backwoods-drifting loner, who's shunned by society and mentally off-balanced. He finds company with big stuffed animals and, eventually, dead young women; it is a disturbing sight, but one that tugs at some odd compassion in a viewer.

Though Franco remained incredibly faithful to the source material, he did have to do some cutting in translating the novel to the screen.

"There were other murders in the book and different kinds of things that I felt like, if you actually watched those things on screen too much, it's going to really turn the audience's sympathy away from this character," Franco said. "What I think is most powerful about the book is that you're able to read this and not see him as a monster; that you follow him, and not that you condone his acts, but you follow him and you go on the journey with him. And that's what we needed with this movie... It's building to this character saying, 'Oh, I can have a love life if I sleep with these bodies.'"


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If Every NFL Team Was A Candle Scent

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You just have to try the “Maurice Jones-Honeydew,” it’s delightful.

San Francisco 49ers: Kaep n’ Crunch Berries

San Francisco 49ers: Kaep n’ Crunch Berries

Chicago Bears: Gimme Forte Pounds of Polish Sausage

Chicago Bears: Gimme Forte Pounds of Polish Sausage

Cincinnati Bengals: A.J. Green Apple

Cincinnati Bengals: A.J. Green Apple

Buffalo Bills: Corn on the Kolb

Buffalo Bills: Corn on the Kolb


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22 Reasons Why Being A Chicago Bears Fan Is The Worst Love-Hate Relationship Of Your Life

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All you want is to love the Bears. Why must they make it so hard sometimes?

Believing at the start of every season that Jay Cutler has the potential to be an elite quarterback.

Believing at the start of every season that Jay Cutler has the potential to be an elite quarterback.

It's his contract year, and everyone knows you get magical powers in your contract year!

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And having to justify Jay Cutler's inconsistent performance and bad attitude by week seven.

And having to justify Jay Cutler's inconsistent performance and bad attitude by week seven.

"But his teammates really respect him!"

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Getting excited about "Bear Weather," because you know that the Bears play better in cold weather.

Getting excited about "Bear Weather," because you know that the Bears play better in cold weather.

Everyone knows it's a fact, OK?

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Seeing the Bears actually play in "Bear Weather."

Seeing the Bears actually play in "Bear Weather."

This was just something you invented to distract us from how freezing Soldier Field is, isn't it?

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Why James Deen Will Never Leave Porn

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The porn actor’s crossover film The Canyons had many wondering if he’d be leaving the adult film world behind. But for one of the hardest-working men in the industry, porn is more than just a lifelong career — it’s a passion.

On the red carpet at the Venice International Film Festival.

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Contrary to what you might have heard, James Deen is not an actor.

It's an understandable mistake. Deen, who has made a name for himself in the adult film industry and recently starred in the non-pornographic movie The Canyons, has cultivated the kind of youth appeal and celebrity status usually reserved for Hollywood stars. But when it comes to being an actor, Deen is as insistent as ever, greeting the designation with an emphatic, "Hell no."

He's just a guy who does porn. And yes, sometimes he acts.

There's no denying The Canyons has raised Deen's profile: As an independently financed film written by literary Brat Pack member Bret Easton Ellis, directed by Hollywood legend Paul Schrader, and starring Lindsay Lohan in the midst of yet another comeback attempt, the movie was bound to raise some eyebrows.

But even with more name recognition than before, Deen isn't trying to rebrand himself as a serious actor. From an outsider's perspective, the mainstream film world might look like an attractive option, but Deen is happy where he is.

"I do adult films," he says. "This is what I want to do. This is what I've wanted to do my entire life. I have no desire to leave. If more mainstream things come up and they're good, I will happily be involved with them. I don't think I'm gonna get a lot of offers. I don't think people are going to beat down my door to be the next Hollywood leading man."

Deen finds the stereotype that he's a porn star trying to break into legitimate acting baffling.

"If I want to sing and dance, I'm not gonna start doing movies," he reflects. "I'm gonna start a music career … I don't think [mainstream] is the ultimate goal for a lot of people."

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Women Are Covering The Hell Out Of The Syria War — So Why Haven't You Noticed?

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Female journalists are behind some of the most important reporting from the most dangerous place in the world for the press. Woman, promote thyself!

A woman looks on as a Syrian rebel poses for the camera near Aleppo, Syria.

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In a small hotel near the Turkish border with Syria earlier this year, four female journalists shared a bottle of wine and some tips on entering what has become the world's most dangerous war zone for reporters.

Two were going in, and the other two had just come out of Aleppo. Their tips ranged from the usual war correspondent fare — safe roads and trusted translators — to the specific concerns of women in war zones: Which areas had recently become more conservative and required wearing a hijab, or other head covering? Who among the Syrian rebel commanders was more welcoming of a female journalist embed? What was the rumor mill saying about the local mayor known for getting a bit too hands-on with female reporters in the past?

"For the first time I look around and I see as many female journalists as males. Of course, we have specific security needs and issues, but finally the debate has moved on from 'should we go cover war' and into 'we are here covering war, how do we make it safer,'" said one British journalist with over 30 years of experience in conflict areas. "We might still be fighting to get noticed at awards and debates or to convince our editors that we should be on the frontlines, but to everyone who pays attention, women are taking the lead in Syria."

That's why she, along with dozens of other journalists, was infuriated when a Guardian article earlier this week asked, "Can girls even find Syria on a map?"

The author, feminist blogger Jill Filipovic, suggested that female voices have been absent from American conversation about Syria:

Can girls even find Syria on a map? If you're reading Syria coverage and opinion writing in major news publications, the answer would seem to be "no". The overwhelming majority of expert talking heads and op-ed writers on US intervention in Syria are male. It's not because men know more about the Middle East or foreign policy or war and security, it's because of long-standing and often unconscious assumptions about male power and competence, and how our media reinforce and perpetuate them.

Her article quickly circulated around the foreign press corps, who weren't shy about going online to protest Flipovic's column.

Rania Abouzeid, a former Time correspondent and regular contributor to the New Yorker whose work on Syria has been at the forefront of public debate and nominated for awards, took to twitter:

So did Liz Sly, the Washington Post Bureau Chief and longtime correspondent in the region.


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Kit Harington (aka Jon Snow) Being All Wet And Wonderful

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Thank you, Wonderland for these amazing pictures.

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Wonderland / Cuneyt Akeroglu

Wonderland / Cuneyt Akeroglu

Wonderland / Cuneyt Akeroglu


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What If NFL Teams Took Their Nicknames Literally: A Photoshop Investigation

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Just remember: what is seen cannot be unseen.

Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

"Cuuuuuuute!" — My wife.

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Arizona Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals

If only the endzone was made of birdseed.

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San Diego Chargers

San Diego Chargers

It is sort of dumb that they were named after people yelling "Charge!" at sporting events. If that trend continues, the new name of the Chargers might be "Qualcomm Stadium SUCKS!"

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

"I might not always play good football, but when I do, no one is more surprised than myself."

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NFL Kicker Gets Four Chances At Winning Game And Gets Shut Out

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Welcome to Randy Bullock’s living nightmare.

Houston kicker Randy Bullock had a chance to win the game for the Texans with this 51-yard field goal — but the Titans called timeout first.

Houston kicker Randy Bullock had a chance to win the game for the Texans with this 51-yard field goal — but the Titans called timeout first.

No worries! We'll just try this again AND THE TITANS BLOCK THE KICK, but there's a penalty! OK, phew.

No worries! We'll just try this again AND THE TITANS BLOCK THE KICK, but there's a penalty! OK, phew.

On the sidelines, Texans owner Bob McNair got very emotional.

On the sidelines, Texans owner Bob McNair got very emotional.

So now Bullock got to kick from 46 yards — and it's another Titans timeout because of course.

So now Bullock got to kick from 46 yards — and it's another Titans timeout because of course.


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You Can Get Your Own "Back To The Future" DeLorean

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If you have a DeLorean DMC-12 and $45,000, you can get your very own “Back To The Future” time machine model.

Danny Botkin, left, and Cameron Wynne of the DeLorean Motor Co. in Huntington Beach, Calif., are outfitting people's DeLoreans to look like they're from "Back To The Future."

Danny Botkin, left, and Cameron Wynne of the DeLorean Motor Co. in Huntington Beach, Calif., are outfitting people's DeLoreans to look like they're from "Back To The Future."

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"I've grown up around DeLoreans my entire life. I was dropped off to kindergarten in the actual 'Back to the Future' car. A DeLorean was my first car at age 16. 'Back to the Future' has been a huge part of the business. The car is so well known from a 90-year-old person to a 4-year-old because of that movie. That shows how timeless the car and the brand is."

About 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s were made between 1981 and 1982.

About 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s were made between 1981 and 1982.

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There are believed to be about 6,500 remaining. The company is currently working on a working on an all-electric version of the vehicle.

There are believed to be about 6,500 remaining. The company is currently working on a working on an all-electric version of the vehicle.

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14 Things Every Football Fan Pretends To Understand

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Of course I know what a zone read is. *Runs away*

You may know what some of these terms mean. You may even know all of them. But at some point in your football-watching career, you definitely didn't, but you pretended you did, to try and look all smart.

The "Tampa 2" defense.

The "Tampa 2" defense.

What you think it means: "It's when two...linebackers...do...something?"

What it actually means: A 4-3 defense popularized by Tony Dungy and Monte Kiffin with the Buccaneers (hence the name). The defining characteristic is the pivotal, sitting middle linebacker, who drops back into a deep zone if he reads a pass play.

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What a "non-reviewable play" is.

What a "non-reviewable play" is.

What you think it means: "I'm pretty sure it's just on scoring plays and...whenever it helps my team."

What it actually means: In fairness, it's pretty complicated. The Football Officials of America have a one-sheet on this you can read, which may or may not be a silly way to spent 10 minutes. Or you could just continue to take Jon Gruden's word for it.

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What a "football move" is.

What a "football move" is.

What you think it means: "It's when you move...upfield? In a natural way? Right?"

What it actually means: Mike Pereira, former Vice President of Officiating for the NFL, somewhat helpfully explained this on Twitter: "A football move = to perform an act common to the game like pitching, passing, or turning upfield." Pitching? Got it. Wait. What?

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Rand Paul On The Warpath

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Once dismissed by the GOP establishment as a gadfly, Paul is starting to look a lot like the leader of his party — and his enemies are panicking. “There’s a big transition in the Republican Party,” the Kentucky senator says in a BuzzFeed interview.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul was in the middle of one of his trademark takedowns of the "right-wing hawks" in his party who "have never met a war they didn't want to get involved in," when he suddenly paused and began grinning.

"There was a funny article the other day in Mother Jones — did you see it? About one of my colleagues?" he asked.

He was trying to do the polite, senatorial thing by not mentioning his "colleague" by name. But when his vague prompt was met with a blank look during an interview with BuzzFeed, he scrapped the pretense of diplomacy and charged forward.

"It ranked the different countries on how eager Sen. [John] McCain wanted to be involved [militarily]," he explained, not even attempting to contain his amusement. "So, like, for getting involved in Syria, there's five Angry McCains. For getting involved in the Sudan, there's two Angry McCains. And there's a little picture of him. You know, he was for getting involved to support [former Libyan president Muammar] Gaddafi before he was for overthrowing Gaddafi. He was for supporting [former Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak before he was for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood before he was for supporting the generals."

Not long ago, the Washington grown-ups who run the Republican Party would have dismissed the junior senator from Kentucky making cracks about an establishment pillar like McCain as little more than the goading of a gadfly. But over the past two weeks, it has become clear that Paul's brand of Republicanism has spread deeply within his party. He successfully rallied a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers against a military intervention in Syria; thoroughly embarrassed Republican leaders who supported the air strikes; and temporarily elevated himself to the role of de facto foreign policy spokesman for the GOP. When President Obama took his case for war to the American people in a primetime address this week, it was Paul who delivered the unofficial Republican counterargument in a series of interviews and a widely covered speech.

Paul, in short, is winning. The Syria debate marked the first time since House Republicans tried to keep America out of the Kosovo conflict in 1999 that a libertarian approach to foreign policy seriously challenged the GOP's old-guard caucus of hawks. And this time, the libertarians came out on top. In this context, his McCain mocking didn't come off as mischievously trolling for a couple headlines — it seemed a little like punching down.

Don't expect Paul to stop swinging. The plainly ambitious libertarian and prospective 2016 presidential candidate has big plans for his party and his country — plans that will require winning a lot of arguments, defeating a lot of opponents, and effectively conquering a GOP establishment that often treats him like a tumor that needs to be surgically removed. He is always on offense: Over the course of his 20-minute interview with BuzzFeed, he took swipes — with varying degrees of force — at Bill Kristol, Samantha Power, Chris Christie, President Obama, President Bush, Cory Booker, humanitarian interventionists, and pro-war Christians (to name a few).

One of his favorite targets — and the one that most delights the political press — is the Bush-era army of neoconservative Republicans who championed the Patriot Act and led the U.S. into war with Iraq. (Paul believes the U.S. should only use military force when the country's national security is directly at risk.)

"So many of the neocons in our party, they think they're the great defenders of the military. They think, Oh, the soldiers must love me because I want to be involved in war," Paul said, before criticizing the assumption that members of the military are eager to fight. "They will, they volunteered, and they're the most patriotic of our young people. But they're not excited about war. They want to go to war if it's the thing they have to do to defend our country."

When asked about the misguided prediction Kristol made earlier this month that only five Senate Republicans would side with Paul in opposing the Syria strikes, the senator interjected to ask, "You saw my response to him?" (Paul had challenged his neoconservative nemesis to visit a military base and talk to GIs before assuming popular opinion was on his side.) Satisfied that his jab had properly penetrated the media sphere, he proceeded to lay out where he believed the votes stood in the Senate. His estimate that 20 or 25 Republicans would vote no was probably modest: The latest unofficial count suggests the number could top 30.

It would be easy to mistake Paul's successes this year — from his campaign against the Syria intervention to his attention-grabbing filibuster against U.S. drone use to the public backlash against the types of domestic surveillance programs he'd been warning about for years — as some sort of permanent sea change in American politics.

Paul knows better. He acknowledges that his ideas have benefitted from "a degree of partisanship" on the right. Republicans, after all, might not be quite so skeptical of executive power, or outspoken against the ever-expanding surveillance state, once one of their own is in the Oval Office. What's more, he spent enough time watching the GOP ignore, then laugh at, then co-opt, then abandon his father's libertarian platform to recognize the fickleness that can define political parties.

But he is also adamant that his agenda's growing popularity is a product of the times: "There's a big transition in the Republican Party, but also in the public. People are right about the public being war-weary. They're right."

Meanwhile, his recognition that the fight is nowhere near won seems to fuel his apparently endless appetite for political combat.

Paul often aims at the president, using his nonstandard political philosophy to find fresh critiques of the administration. He laid into the "Samantha Powers of the world" who foolishly want to "send troops to feed people" in remote countries all over the world. And he called out Obama himself, whose rationale for putting armed forces at risk in Syria he finds indefensible.

"The other day, when [the president] came to lunch, [he said] that we're not facing very many direct threats in this world to the United States... and so you're going to have to be involved in much more ambiguous situations," Paul recalled. "I'm guessing he wouldn't use that term in public but that's the term he used with us."

Paul also finds plenty to dislike in his own party's approach to beating the war drum — particularly the theological overtones of the Bush years. In a strikingly candid speech last year at the Value Voters Summit, Paul, a Presbyterian, cited his religious beliefs while declaring, "I'm not a pacifist. But I do think it unacceptable not to hate war."

He elaborated to BuzzFeed: "I think some within the Christian community are such great defenders of the promised land and the chosen people that they think war is always the answer, maybe even preemptive war. And I think it's hard to square the idea of a preemptive war and, to me, that overeagerness [to go to] war, with Christianity."

In the world of politics, though, Paul seems preternaturally comfortable at war. One particularly instructive example is his feud with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Earlier this summer, Christie accused the libertarian of prioritizing "esoteric, intellectual debates" over national security — a harsh attack that seemed to come out of nowhere. Though Paul didn't instigate the spat, he happily stretched it out over several days, answering every interviewer's question about his aggressor, and memorably referring to the governor at one point as "the king of bacon." The fight fizzled when Paul invited Christie for a beer (he declined), but he has never quite let it go.

When BuzzFeed asked him this week whether he was surprised Christie didn't engage the Syria debate more directly by staking out a position, Paul paused for a beat before offering a cutting response.

"I guess I didn't really notice or think about it that much," he said.

15 Signs Your Barista Hates You

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Just a few quick, easy ways to be an annoying customer.

You order croissants in a French accent.

You order croissants in a French accent.

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You complain about prices.

You complain about prices.

We didn't make them up. We also didn't decide what we paid, or what you tip.

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You don’t wait for your drink to be called.

You don’t wait for your drink to be called.

Is this a small cappuccino? No, it’s a large iced latte. So, similar.

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You order gross drinks that shouldn't exist.

You order gross drinks that shouldn't exist.

A large breve is 16oz of cream and espresso. Would you like your heart attack for here or to go?

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This Is What It Looks Like When A 2,000-Pound Smart Bomb Blows Up A Tiny Ship

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The Army released photographs of a Sept. 4 bomb test in which a solo B-1B flew into this tiny pirate boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Because why not?

Now you see it.

Now you see it.

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Now you don't.

Now you don't.

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The test bombing is apparently meant to show that the bomber (a GBU-10 bomb dropped by a B-1) can be effectively deployed against small sea-borne surface targets, such as pirates, or other small moving objects.

A single GBU-10 bomb costs $23,700. The weapon was developed in the 1980s for the USA's Cold War needs, but was not used until 1998, when President Clinton issued a military strike in Iraq.


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28 Times Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi Was A Total Inspiration

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In celebration of her killer debut performance on Dancing With The Stars , a celebration of our girl Snooks. She is everything.

Snooki closed the night on Monday's Dancing With The Stars premiere because obvi the producers knew that she is perfection.

Snooki closed the night on Monday's Dancing With The Stars premiere because obvi the producers knew that she is perfection.

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She was perfect when she was clearly, inarguably the best part of "Jersey Shore" every week.

She was perfect when she was clearly, inarguably the best part of "Jersey Shore" every week.

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And no party could ever start without her.

And no party could ever start without her.

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Everyone thought they were making fun of her but actually she was in on the joke the whole time.

Everyone thought they were making fun of her but actually she was in on the joke the whole time.

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Are You Smarter Than These Celebrities?

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Keep studying. And someday you might be as smart as Ivan Drago.

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16 DIY Ways To Take Your Store-Bought Cake To The Next Level

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Zero piping-bag skills required.

Just because you're serving up a store bought cake doesn't mean it has to look boring.

Just because you're serving up a store bought cake doesn't mean it has to look boring.

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Stick on some celebratory bunting.

Stick on some celebratory bunting.

Available here in lots of other colors, too!

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Adorn your cake with balloons.

Adorn your cake with balloons.

Q: Who will not be delighted by the presence of miniature balloons?
A: No one!

Make them from water balloons and wooden skewers. Instructions here.

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Turn Mike & Ikes and toothpicks into tiny popsicles.

Turn Mike & Ikes and toothpicks into tiny popsicles.

These secretly easy to make toppers look best when you use a combination of the classic and tropical flavor varieties.

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Which Harry Potter Character Best Fits Your Personality Type?

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Think fast, are you a Ron or Hermoine?

Before you look at this go check out this unofficial, but fairly accurate, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which takes Carl Jung's ideas about personality types and organizes them into the following four sections:

Worldview: Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I)
Would you rather hang with friends or curl up with a good book (or binge netflix alone)?

Information: Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
When learning new stuff, do you prefer to take it in at face value or interpret / add meaning based on your gut?

Decisions: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
When making up your mind up, do you primarily rely on logic or do you tend to gravitate towards your emotions?

Structure: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
Would you rather the stuff in your life be decided and rigid or would you rather stay open to whatever options might come along?

Severus Snape, Neville Longbottom, Remus Lupin, Draco Malfoy:

Severus Snape, Neville Longbottom, Remus Lupin, Draco Malfoy:

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"The Examiner," "The Defender," "The Counselor," and "The Strategist" all share introverted and judging as dominant traits.

Harry Potter, Rubeus Hagrid, Luna Lovegood, Hermoine Granger

Harry Potter, Rubeus Hagrid, Luna Lovegood, Hermoine Granger

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13 Life Lessons We Learned From Our Favorite Childhood Sports Movies

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Air Bud : A Morality Tail.

Cool Runnings: Confidence

You should be repeating this verbatim in front of your mirror every morning. No really, you should. Self-confidence is one of the most attractive and important traits you can develop.

What Cool Runnings Also Taught Us: Haters gonna hate.

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The Mighty Ducks Trilogy: Teamwork

3 words for you: Ducks Fly Together. The real world places a high value on teamwork. I guess we all have Coach Bombay to thank for the collegial atmosphere within our respective professional settings.

What The Mighty Ducks Also Taught Us: Youth hockey is a multi-cultural sport.

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The Sandlot: Facing Fear

We all have a few Beasts in our life, sometimes you just have to MTFU and climb that fence.

What The Sandlot Also Taught Us: How to trash talk.

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Angels In the Outfield: Support

There will always be people there to support us if we let them, be it a parent, friend or Doc from Back To The Future.

What Angels In the Outfield Also Taught Us: Kids can regularly fill roster slots for pro sports teams. See Rookie Of The Year (1993).

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A University Got Rid Of A Giant Pendulum After Guys Were Riding It Like Miley Cyrus In "Wrecking Ball"

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

A 42-inch steel pendulum on the campus of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., has removed for “safety reasons" after a bunch of bros did the Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" on it naked.

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The pendulum was removed Tuesday.

The pendulum was removed Tuesday.

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The Boston Red Sox's 38-Year-Old Journeyman Closer Is An Unhittable God-Creature From Outer Space

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Just try to get on base against Koji Uehara. We dare you.

Delighting Red Sox fans with his wicked nasty arsenal of pitches, Koji Uehara has been lights out this year. His numbers are crazy. CRAZY.

Delighting Red Sox fans with his wicked nasty arsenal of pitches, Koji Uehara has been lights out this year. His numbers are crazy. CRAZY.

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His ERA (1.06), WHIP (0.56), and Fielding Independent Pitching rates (1.70) are all mind-numbingly excellent.

His ERA (1.06), WHIP (0.56), and Fielding Independent Pitching rates (1.70) are all mind-numbingly excellent.

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Uehara has struck out 39% of all batters (94-of-241) he's faced this season.

Uehara has struck out 39% of all batters (94-of-241) he's faced this season.

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Most impressive of all: Uehara has retired the last 37 hitters against him — the longest streak by a reliever since 2007. He has one and a third perfect games going.

Most impressive of all: Uehara has retired the last 37 hitters against him — the longest streak by a reliever since 2007. He has one and a third perfect games going.

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