This Halloween, give out Mars Bars in this size and your home will be the most popular stop in the neighborhood. Ann Reardon shows you how in this video. She’s made all sorts of inventive confections, including a cake that looks like the Instagram logo and a cake that looks like a pile of spaghetti and meatballs.

This is 1 of 29 giant versions of your favorite foods rounded up by BuzzFeed. They include a truly enormous Ding Dong, a Ferraro Rocher candy the size of a baby’s head, and a hamburger that could feed an entire family for a day.

In a mere 6 seconds, from unboxing to completion, Mario Culibrk shows us how to use a selfie stick. They’re really very simple devices once the instructions are broken down into steps as this Vine does.

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I've long been sympathetic to Jabba the Hutt. Despite objections to Leia's slave outfit in Return of the Jedi, it's Jabba who is the most sexually exploited character in Star Wars. Take note: he's completely naked throughout the entire series.

In this video, Gabriel Pacheco goes even further. He argues that although Jabba isn't a hero, he's clearly a good guy trying to do right for his community. Jabba employs a vast number of artists who would otherwise be processing womp rat carcasses for minimum wage. His palace is the most culturally and racially diverse community that we see in any of the movies. He also cares for the natural environment of Tatooine by preserving endangered species, such as the sarlacc.

I'd like to add to Pacheco's arguments. The movies, which are written from the perspective of the Old Republic and the Rebel Alliance, tell us that Jabba is a gangster. But all governments, even one as pathetically weak and corrupt as the Old Republic, describe competitors as criminals. They need to support their claim that Jabba is some sort of crime boss.

Watch the whole thing. Content warning: foul language.

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Rodrigo Pereira calls his street art "urban interference." He's particularly fond of the forms of Playmobil toys and realized that the concrete road barriers in Rio de Janeiro look just like Playmobil heads--once he adds a bit of paint. He composed these in 2010.

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The Tramp looks a bit rough, but Lady looks as prim and proper as ever. No matter what their species, they were destined to fall in love. This is one of several Disney anthropomorphizations by Alaina Bastain. She's taken animal characters from Disney animated movies and redrawn them as humans. She includes characters from Tarzan, Oliver and Company, Jungle Book, The Lion King, and more. You can view the rest at Bored Panda.

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Jessica Bruce, 32, has long been a marathoner. Her best time is 2 hours and 58 minutes. When she gave birth to baby Daniel 7 months ago, she didn't want to stop. So she began training while pushing a stroller.

Bruce recently put her new training to the test by running a marathon in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. While pushing her baby in a stroller, she completed the marathon in 3 hours, 17 minutes, and 52 seconds. This beats the previous world record by 14 minutes.

Her husband ran alongside her. He fed the baby a bottle while they kept running. Although they brought along supplies for a diaper change, it was unnecessary. Baby Daniel slept for the first 20 miles, then relaxed for the remaining distance. You can read more about their run at the Daily Telegraph.

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The ninth Rule of Acquisition states: "Opportunity plus instinct equals profit." Jonah Reider, a student at Columbia University in New York City, saw opportunity where other people didn't. He had room for a table for four people in his dorm room. He had access to a shared kitchen. He had excellent cooking skills. He combined these to form a new business: a restaurant.

Pith, as Reider's restaurant is called, is already booked through November. He calls it a supper club, which it technically is. Reider dines with his guests. But in an interview with Grubstreet, he discusses his goal to making a profit:

You're just charging for ingredients, and not turning a profit. Will that change?

That is great, but it’s also unsustainable. I don’t think I could continue, for a very long time, to spend two or three hours a day doing this, and just getting paid back for ingredients. As a student, it’s great, and I’m happy to do it. It’s such a good excuse to practice cooking. But I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to make this ever so slightly profitable. It’s so frustrating that eating in New York is so prohibitively expensive. Only a specific slice of the city gets to go out to eat. I don’t think that experience is what many people are looking for. It also doesn’t need to be a formal thing.

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Okay, time out. No arguments, readers. You earned your time out by watching this video by BreakWomb that imagines how weird it would be if parents talked to adults the way they talk to their children. Laurel Coppock, Molly Erdman, and Megan Grano treat each other like 4-year olds.

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Is some floozy getting too friendly with your husband? You'll need to deal with your husband. But you may also need to explain to the homewrecker that your man is taken. According to What's on Weibo, a blog that summarizes news from China, market demand has created a new profession: mistress discourager. Adultery and divorce are on the rise in China, so it's possible to earn a good living by driving off extra partners:

So-called “third person dissuaders” or “mistress discouragers” specialise in persuading mistresses to step back from their client’s marriage, and make an annual salary of approximately one million yuan (157,500 US$).

Saving a marriage does not come cheap. China’s “third person dissuaders” or “mistress discouragers” sometimes charge as high as 250,000 yuan (±40,000 US$) to persuade ‘the third person’ (小三), or  ‘the other woman’, to step back from their clients’ marriage.

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"Bum"? Keep things clean, Betty. pic.twitter.com/qwLAwmQwKr

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Chicken Treat, an Australian chicken restaurant, is insourcing its social media operation to Betty, a chicken. This highly trained hen, who is clearly setting herself up for some choice social media consulting gigs, will have complete control over Chicken Treat's Twitter feed until she spells a proper 5-letter English word. This, the company hopes, will secure Betty a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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What do you do if the dead won't stay dead? Greek settlers in the colony of Kamarina in Sicily may have addressed that problem in two graves uncovered by archaeologists in the 1980s. The bodies were weighed down with heavy pottery fragments--as though to prevent the bodies from rising up. Live Science reports on the findings of archaeologist Carrie Sulosky Weaver:

For her book, Sulosky Weaver "needed to understand why these individuals would be buried in a different manner," she told Live Science in an email, during a dig in Turkey.

One grave held the skeletal remains of an adult of unknown sex whose teeth had lines of arrested growth — a sign of serious malnutrition or illness, Sulosky Weaver said. The head and feet of the person were covered with "large amphora fragments… a large, two-handled ceramic vessel that was typically used for storing liquids," she wrote in the article.

The heavy amphora fragments "were presumably intended to pin the individual to the grave and prevent it from seeing or rising," she added.

Another grave contains the skeleton of a child, likely age 8 to 13. The skeleton didn't have any signs of disease, but five large stones were placed on top of it, possibly to stop a revenant from leaving the grave, Sulosky Weaver said.

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As one of the world's greatest astrophysicists, Stephen Hawking understands so many wonders of the universe. But he's just like us, amirite fellas?

Hawking, who has been married and divorced twice, recently did a reddit AMA interview. In it, one redditor asked him "What is the one mystery that you find most intriguing, and why?" The illustrious intellectual responded:

Women. My PA reminds me that although I have a PhD in physics women should remain a mystery.

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Many years ago, novelist Brian J. Noggle bought his wife an iMac. It broke, but he kept the desiccated carcass around in case he thought of something useful to do with it. After buying a corkboard, he realized what he could do: turn the old computer into a modern-looking corkboard. The entire project, he notes, was quite cheap:

Imgur member Arduosity crafted this incredibly detailed and intricate chess set. S/he describes it as "near impossible to set up." But it's the ultimate option in portable chess sets. Just flip open the top, lay out the pieces, then hold very, very still.

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The 1937 Azerbaijani novel Ali and Nino tells the story of a Muslim man and a Christian woman in the city of Baku who fall in love. Their cultures will not tolerate such a relationship and they are torn asunder. This enormous sculpture in Batumi, Georgia by Tamara Kvesitadze tells their story. Every evening at 7 o'clock, the two lovers approach, kiss, then pass right through each other. 

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This video shows the sequence. The metal plates forming the bodies don't collide because they are set at alternating heights. You can see more photos at My Modern Met.