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Stacked panda cakes

Stacked panda cakes by Kralle cakes. Via.

*Buy cake toppers at eBay.

Awesome cake

A unicorn-riding zombie, rainbow, piranha plant, and more star in this Awesome Cake by Barbarann Garrard/Cake Rhapsody.

*Previously: Kill Bill cake by Garrard.

*Buy unicorns at eBay.

1. Day of the Dead cake. Via.

2. The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition, with DVD, board game, and more, is $6 at Amazon. Via.

3. The plush creatures created for Gallery Hanahou's Luv-able Hug-able Show are now on sale. Via.

*Buy Goonies toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Comment and win a copy of a new book focusing on Steve Ditko's artwork.

2. D30 cake from a "nerdy thirty" birthday party.

3. A criminal defendant was arrested for murder and while in custody managed to get new Nazi tattoos on his face and neck. His lawyer convinced the judge to order the state to spend $125 a day for a makeup artist to cover up the tattoos, less the jurors think poorly of the defendant. Via.

Wall-E and Eve cake

Wall-E and Eve cake by Charm City Cakes. They're having a contest right now, by the way.

*Buy Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes at Amazon.

Ark of the Covenant cake; Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake

Two cakes by Charm City Cakes:

Ark of the Covenant cake. You can see a great photo gallery of the wedding here.

Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake by Mary Lewis.

She also created a Ray Lewis jack-o'-lantern:

And finally, the best of the Old Spice commercials, where Ray Lewis equates using Old Spice Swagger to getting to fly on a rocket-powered raven into space:

*Buy Ray Lewis toys at eBay.

But experiments with students and prisoners who deliberately set out to gain weight show that appetite decreases, and metabolism increases, if people consistently overeat. That's why most of us stay in a relatively stable band, rather than seeing our weight fluctuate wildly. Gina Kolata argues that most people have a pretty narrow band of weight that their bodies are comfortable in--about 10-30 pounds. Stay at the low end, and you'll feel a bit hungry; get to the high end, and you may lose some of your interest in food. But it's actually very hard to bust out of that band on either side.

2. Monstrous cake.

3. Comment and win The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!.

*Buy Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong at Amazon.

Urban Legends Mermaid cake

Mermaid Cake by Karen Portaleo/Highland Bakery for last night's Extreme Urban Legends cake contest on Food Network.

Here's a second cake from the episode, an animatronic, spider-covered cake called "Ursula Lebowski and the Urban Legend Cake" by Orlando Serrano Cakes:

*Buy Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes at Amazon.

Vermin-filled cake

Great Expectations, the Miss Havisham Cake by the Hotham Street Ladies. If you've never read Great Expectations (or the very funny Lost in a Good Book), Wikipedia explains:

As an adult, she fell in love with a man named Compeyson, who was only out to swindle her of her riches. Her cousin Matthew Pocket was but tempted to be careful, but she was too much in love to listen. At twenty minutes to nine on their wedding day, while she was dressing, Havisham received a letter from Compeyson and realized that he had defrauded her and she had been left at the altar.
Miss Havisham with Estella and Pip. Art by H. M. Brock.

Humiliated and heartbroken, Havisham had all the clocks stopped at the exact point in which she had learned of her betrayal. From that day on, she remained by herself in her decaying mansion, Satis House, never removing her wedding dress (as a result of being in the process of getting dressed when she receives the letter, she only has one shoe on), leaving the wedding cake uneaten on the table and only allowing a few people to see her.