We’re off for Thanksgiving weekend, nursing Campari and sodas for our minds and bellies. Check out Make’s paper turkey, which vegetarians and omnivores can both agree is better than leather turkey.

We love the way it takes off on the facets trend in fashion and home decor. And like all good things, you can hack it and make it a turkalope or give it extra legs so everyone can get a drumstick.

Halloween is Candy Blog’s favorite holiday! (With the close exception of Valentines’ day sweeties). But before the trick or treating even begins, it’s good to fill up on sugary cereal. Have a scary good time munching on Booberry cereal. And if you are short a costume, put on a blue sheet and carry around a cartoon of milk. Your costume might be lost on a few health-nuts. But those who recognize you will definitely think its sweet.

Three smiles for hot tea!

A new study suggests that people holding a warm beverage are more likely to view others in a warm light. Mer-chan expects this discovery will break the lingering tea cozy market wide open! And we are well placed to double down on the new findings. If holding a warm mug makes others seem warmer, holding a mug with a deer on it is likely to make them more dear. Holding a Smiley Mug is likely to make them smile. And holding a frog tote is likely to make them jump for joy!

Stuffed with your choice of goodness!

The Ebelskiver filled pancake pan is now better than ever! No more hot hands; it now comes with a stay cool handle. Chowhound has some useful tips and discussion on how to make your own. Or get a history lesson on the delicious treats here. Pancakes are a wonderfully delicious money-saving breakfast. But who’s to say the need to be flat? Stuff in some ebelskiver extra and round ‘em up. It’s a perfect Danish treat, but its not a danish.

The truth revealed!

IBM is teaming up with the chocolate company Mars to sequence the cocoa gene. The complete genomic chocolate map is expected to be completed by 2013. We can’t wait! Will it tell us exactly how closely our early ancestors were related to this wonderful plant. Will researcher’s will discover that chocoholics share a high percentage of cocoa genes? Will they locate a sequence that predicts the onset of sweet tooth? Perhaps it will help us build a better chocolate bar (is such a thing possible?) or a better chocolate eater.

By the way, check out the Mars company website. The front page says nothing about chocolate. It just has a giant globe with the words: “Mars - Welcome to our world. Things are different here.” I suspect their secret confectioner labs are already designing sentient chocolate workers. And Fungalgenome.org suggests that sequencing of the Oomp Loompa genome may be next.