It's like Mad Max 2 was produced by the Food Network! Cindy Fabre, Miss France in 2005, wore this costume made out of chocolate for the chocolate industry's recent trade fair in Aix en Provence:

They used more than 300 pieces of chocolate including chocolate truffles, chocolate hearts and caramel filled chocolate bites to make the outfit, and even covered the Fabre's shoes with the confectionary.

The model accessorised with a huge chocolate bangle and some brown feathers in her hair.

You can view more and larger pictures at the link.

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Etsy seller Rebekka Ferbrache made this adorable little teapot. Do not try to stuff more than three cups of liquid inside.

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The standard orange trick-or-treating bucket is going to clash with your clever steampunk Smurfette Captain America in a utilikilt costume. But no worries: Yami Guru has you covered with his steampunk buckets.

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Yes, the former Marine sergeant and actor who played the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket (NSFW language) can knit. Got a problem with that?

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Driving this truck in the US might get you a ticket. Might. Worry about that if you get pulled over. Now keep driving.

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Relax with your dog in a kayak. A trainer named Jess Forte offers classes on Lady Bird Lake in Austin that safely familiarize dogs with kayaking. Sharon Chapman of the Austin-American Statesman took her own pooch out on the water and reported on the experience:

My dog can swim. Because of her tendency to panic, I had her in a dog life jacket (Forte recommends having any dog on the water in a life vest or at least a harness). Besides helping her float as she frantically dog paddled toward shore, the vest served a second purpose: The handle makes hauling a big wet dog back into a boat much easier.

I grabbed the leash hooked to the vest. A little maneuvering to get her alongside the kayak, and a lot of leaning in the opposite direction by me and coaching from the trainer, and I soon had my now much cooler dog back in the kayak. I was proud of myself for staying calm and being fit enough for the task, and of her for not shutting down afterward (cheese helps).

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Why? Probably because he didn't have a two-toed sloth available:

According to investigators, the altercation occurred when the suspect was selling the carcass to the victim, who planned to eat the animal.

The pair apparently began arguing over the price of the item when the man twice threw the armadillo at the woman.

The animal first struck the woman in the leg and then in her chest.

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I wondered "How is he going to handle Nancy Callahan?" With a clip from The Great Mouse Detective, which was rather clever. Disney movies now seem to be a bit risqué.

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Catherine Martin makes trippy skull models covered with beads in cooperation with the Huichol people of Western Mexico. Her project is appropriately entitled "Our Exquisite Corpse." It's only a matter of time before funeral homes make this an option. Interested?

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Praying Hands is an iconic drawing by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Ross Turpin, a tattoo artist who works in Hong Kong, gave our second-favorite droid a reason to pray by ripping his hands off his body.

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This official music video from his new album places William Shatner where he belongs: looming over us as a semi-devine figure dispensing questionable wisdom from on high. What does God need with a starship? This.

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Get it? Chewbacca from Star Wars rendered in chewing tobacco. It was made by the marvelously inventive Terry Border of Bent Objects. If you like his work, be sure to read the interview that he gave with Alex.

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Peter Gronquist's new show "The Evolution Will Be Fabulous" at Gallery in 1988 in Los Angeles features horned animals with fearsome golden antlers. Among them are golden uni-jackalopes. I know, jackalopes are supposed to be oh so cute. But here in Texas they get into everything, tear property apart, and are nothing but a nuisance.

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Have you ever seen a small airplane dragging a banner behind it? Picking up those banners requires some surprisingly demanding piloting skills because the banners tend to throw the aircraft off-balance:

Most of the planes that carry these signs are rather small, and attempting to take off with the sign already in tow would throw off the plane’s center of gravity, preventing it from getting airborne. Carrying the furled up sign in the cockpit or (typically tiny) payload runs the very real risk of getting it tangled up with the aircraft itself, resulting in disaster. In short, the plane can’t take off with the sign already attached. [...]

As seen in this video (but you will have to look closely), the plane flies toward a pair of uprights, dangling a hook about 25 feet behind. The sign is attached to a big loop, which itself lays across a pair of uprights. When the plane flies over the uprights, the hook grabs onto the loop, lifting it — and the sign — skyward. In order to pull off the maneuver, the plane needs to get rather close to the ground — sometimes, no more than 30 or 40 feet above the surface. While the whole process is risky (and there have beenterrible accidents), it really is the only option available.

You can read the rest at Dan Lewis's Now I Know, a daily email service of neat, odd stories.

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It's understandable why the Wonder Twins are absent. But no Marvin and Wendy? They were, like, the backbone of the show. Still, Ray, a Geeks Are Sexy reader, got a pretty good birthday cake.

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