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People love taking them some pictures of food, and there's no more food friendly event than Thanksgiving. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that yesterday's turkey feasts marked the highest of high points for the Instagram, which saw 226 pictures of turkey dinners uploaded to its service every second near it's high point at midday.

One of the time-honored traditions of Thanksgiving for a number of people is the act of eating way too much before retiring to the local couch to quietly digest. It's a period of much reflection, and sometimes regret, but there's little to no actual activity involved beyond just sitting there, hoping not to die. We know that feel. So, to make the whole process that much smoother, here's five movies to watch instantly on Netflix during your Thanksgiving food coma.

We want to take the chance to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Geekosystem. We hope to heck that you're having a great day, surrounded by loved ones, kicking back, and increasingly filled with wonderful food. We know, though, that, between setting tables, getting pies out of the oven, and arguing politics with your nearest and dearest, things can get a little bit stressful during the holidays. Or, okay, a lot stressful. When we need to step away from things for a moment, there's one site that always helps us take a nice deep breath and get a little perspective. We're talking of course, about Calming Manatee. In the interest of you having a nice, chill day among family, friends, and food, here are a few of our favorite aquatic reminders that things are going to be just fine.

We've all faced the dilemma of attending Thanksgiving and being totally unprepared to bring a side dish, for any number of reasons. Maybe you're working like ten dogs to clear your desk before the long weekend. Maybe you don't want to do the disrespect of competing your mother-in-law's famous mashed potatoes. Maybe, you're just not much of a cook. There's no shame in any of those scenarios. There is, however, an undying shame in showing up to Thanksgiving dinner empty-handed -- don't worry though. Whether you've been tasked with a specific side or left to your own devices, we've got you covered with seven selections you can safely bring to any Thanksgiving feast to ensure you look like a great guest without breaking the bank or a sweat.

Fall is here (even if it's still reaching over 75 degrees outside, damnit), and you're probably celebrating the seasonal change with some brews, like you celebrate a change in anything else. Or if nothing changes. Or if there's nothing to celebrate, really. Pumpkins are going to become widely available pretty soon, and instead of carving that Guy Fawkes face into it for Anonyween, you could do something a little more useful and turn it into a keg.

Here at Geekosystem, a few of us have been fascinated with the often times eccentric Jones Soda for quite a while. Along with the normal staples of root beer, cream soda, and fufu berry (which, if we're counting that as normal, one can probably discern just how weird Jones is), Jones has delved into flavor madness and released some truly unique sodas in their time. From the delicious berry lemonade, to the surprisingly good green apple, to the love-it-or-hate-it blue bubblegum, Jones doesn't just stick with normal cola and lemon-lime flavors. Over the years, they've released extremely odd experimental flavors, usually in the form of limited edition holiday packs. One of the most notorious packs is the 2005 Thanksgiving Holiday Pack, which contains five sodas flavored to match a full course Thanksgiving dinner. We managed to snag a sealed package, and despite being around seven years old, we braved the Brussels sprout, wild herb stuffing, and turkey and gravy sodas just for you. Impressions below.

If you still haven't bought a turkey, it's not too late. Just follow these tips on how to become a turkey hunter and you'll be handling turkey poop and making silly noises before you know it! Whether or not you actually manage to get a turkey is another matter altogether.

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for all the wonderful things in your life. Like infographics. Specifically, this infographic. About Thanksgiving. This infographic, from popular credit website CreditDonkey has all kinds of interesting information about the first Thanksgiving that will shatter your childhood misconceptions as well as information about current day Thanksgiving that well make you salivate. Dig in and gorge on knowledge: It's calorie free and only makes you slightly more tired than more traditional forms of gluttony.

Full infographic after the jump.

While it's always great to take some time off to see our real life families, we're geeks, and we tend to run off immediately afterward to reconnect with our electronic lives. In that spirit, we've prepared a round up of this year's Thanksgiving webcomics from around the 'tubes.

In celebration of Thanksgiving, we at Geekosystem are taking a break from regular programming today. But that doesn't mean you can't read stuff here! Drawn from our backlogs of material you may or may not have read, here are a bunch of lists and videos to keep you occupied.

Lists

1. A Pronunciation Guide for 21 Key Geeky Words and Phrases

2. 10 Sexiest Programmers

3. The Best of the Internet’s Halloween Costumes, 2010

4. 10 Greatest Alignment Charts

5. Memes Within Memes Is Too Unstable: 15 Memes Inspired by Inception

6. 21 Amazing Minecraft Creations

7. 10 Overshadowed Scientists and Inventors

8. 21 Facebook Conversations that May or May Not Be Fake but Are Funny Anyway

9. 6 Hugh Jackman Period Films That Can Be Watched as Wolverine Prequels

10. 10 Worst Science Fiction Governments

11. The 10 Worst Exes in Geekdom

12. The Forever Alone Meme: A 21-Picture Tour Through Soul-Crushing Loneliness

13. Inception Meets Magic: The Gathering: Duel Decks, Extractors Vs. Dreamers

14. Video Game Logos, Old versus New

15. The Video Games of Today Reimagined in 8 and 16 Bits

16. The 10 Most Popular Types of MacGuffin

17. 8 Immortal Image Threads You Could Look Through for Days

18. Mixed Media: 10 Western Video Games that Would Make Great Anime Films

Videos

1. The Most Impressive SimCity You May Ever See

2. Red Army Performs Michael Jackson's "Beat It"

3. Kid Catches a Rare Shiny Pokemon After 25,968 Attempts

4. Russians Drive Through Fire to Escape Burning Village

5. The Soviet Union's Pre-Photoshop Photoshop

6. Koala Fight Gets Rough

7. Space Footage Shot from Homemeade Weather Balloon

(title pic Shooped from Wikimedia Commons)

It's Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: 10 cats give thanks for a bounty of LOLs.

Worst holiday advice ever? A 1936 Camel cigarette ad published in Life magazine advised readers to smoke at least one cigarette between each course at their Thanksgiving dinner. You know, "for digestion's sake."

As some of you may have noticed, yesterday evening Amazon.com sent out an e-mail to anyone who had pre-ordered World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Its purpose was to inform them that the game would take three to six days to ship, because it was going to be released two days before Thanksgiving. So, Amazon might have some inside info that would make them confident that Cataclysm was being released on November 23rd. However, Blizzard has neither commented on the Amazon e-mail, nor, more importantly, announced a release date. In other words, we'd be surprised if this was the actual release date, for a number of reasons...

Online MBA has a helpful infographic about what is perhaps the Internet's greatest contribution to civilization: making it incredibly easy to find porn. No longer will young people be shoving magazines under mattresses, and that's good, because I'm sure we're all going to be sleeping in zerograv stasis pods any day now. Some of the stats on it surprised us, nevertheless. For example, only 12% of the internet and 8% of all e-mail is porn. We would have guessed a bit higher. See the whole thing below: