1. Crayon rockets!
   
2. The original rolling ball clock — now available again!
   
3. Also, ever seen the Arrow coin clock?
   
4. Attention BF programmers that want better 3D graphics support: The bfopengl project needs more developers.
   
5. Al Gore changes font (via)
   
6. Food science: Why fry fries twice?
   
7. Fordson Snow Machine from 1929 (on YouTube) (via)
   
8. Virtual radar — Google maps + planes over Europe
   
9. Measuring the ink used by different fonts, the analog way.
   
10. Awesome Hopping Robot
    
11. Self-slicing Pizza and many other interesting projects
    
12. Multiwire circuit boards (link goes to patent). Fascinating older, specialized technology that was actually used. You can get a good idea what it’s all about from the illustrations in the PDF.
    
13. We’re excited to see some hints that open-source embroidery may happen someday.
    
14. Sea glass candy
    
15. Awesome LED earrings at Etsy
    
16. Gear generator program by Matthias Wandel; video demo here. Would be fully awesome except that it’s for Windows only. (A simple, online version is available here.)
    
17. Make a tasty Ice Planet
    
18. Remaking classic perpetual motion machines, at the Museum of Unworkable Devices.
    
19. Interesting perspective: Is luck a skill?
    
20. Some nice looking wooden notebooks
    

1. Micro-KIM 8-bit computer kit
2. Bony desk lamp
3. Robot videos ftw
4. The words of physics
5. Best Lego costume ever.
6. Sound sculptures by Zimoun
7. Visualization of light moving from the earth to the moon
8. How to weave glass
9. Kitchenaid Flames
10. Cat-o-lanterns?
11. Interesting source of food-grade mold-making materials.
12. A nice variation on the ice tube clock
13. Awesome Giant Lamp
14. Sausage link scarf
15. A gentle introduction to bitwise operators
16. Best zoo ad ever?
17. Photos from the Russian space museum
18. Star Trek films: Odd vs Even

• Music of the long now
• Nesting Eyeballs
• Garlic Bread Dalek
• Another Dice Bag
• A good introduction to using solderless breadboards for electronics.
• Silly swirled frosting for cupcakes
• Yet more silly happy face math.
• Comic bok book grammar
• Penrose floor tiles, with links to more.
• Make a drinking straw cruise missile
• “Building blocks” of lego robots
• Creepy soft sculptures by Melissa Sue Stanley
• The Prime Spiral
• Throbbing Oil
• Old school trick for making repeating tiled patterns.

• Visual Proofs
• Another good reason to use math
• Pencil is an open source 2D drawing/animation program.
• One page cookbooks for Indian food. [via]
• Minuteman I ICBM guidance computer. (photo) Beauty in the beast?
• We hope that the folks doing cool steampunk art will take start making stuff in the style of the dashboard of this 1933 Chrysler Imperial Le Baron Sport Phaeton. (Must enlarge the dashboard picture for detail.)
• Weird Bird of Paradise on YouTube (via Geek Feminism Blog)
• The skinny on spotted, striped, and ticked cats.
• I am totally putting one of these engines in my next model airplane.
• Baked cookie gyoza?
• Andromeda in the UV
• Candy Rockets: Powered by sugar, just like you.
• Floppy Mirror
• Tetris Tiles!
• Makerbeam project: a very interesting approach to open-source hardware
• Whisky Density Experiment

• Donkey Kong shelves
• Toys for your geeky cat
• Do you actually know how toilets are made?
• If we had thermonuclear weapons, we’d set the password to um… 00000000.
• Meringue Mario Mushrooms
• The cat ladder blog has more entries than we’d expect.
• Tube Tweezers
• Hot dog sushi — Love the bun “rice”
• Winding a toroidal transformer
• Check out the portable pie chart on this page of paper based visualizations
• Edge lit card (fancy version!)
• Impressionist cakes
• The ultimate camera accessory
• If you like the geeky-crafty aspect of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, you’ll probably also enjoy The Domestic Scientist (“Mad Science with a Hint of Nutmeg”).
• Science teachers: Ask your students to analyze this a/c system!

As they sign up for the TGIMBOEJ project, we’ve been asking participants to publish a link to their web site.

Skimming through the lists, we’ve come across quite a few interesting and entertaining projects, sites, photos, and other links, both old and new.
Here are just a few of our favorites:

• DVD drive teardown
• Zezinho, the poser (interactive installation)
• A reminder of what old electronics can look like
• Also, an old Outlet Blinker
• Microcontroller controls its own power supply
• Animated jack-o-lantern
• Edge-lit robot laws
• PID on Arduino
• Command line client for Twitter
• Elmo hero
• Open-source GPIB toolkit for win32
• Silly, simple USB mug warmer
• One fine button (and some CNC stuff…)
• How to remove plastic packages from ICs
• Meggy Unboxing!
• Notes on shopping for soldering irons
• Potch’s charming home page
• The most beautiful ice-cream sandwich
• Squarecave synthesizer
• Wiring small solar cells with conductive paint
• Taxi meter clock
• Automatic cap gun
• Oscillator circuit shirt
• Hacktastic binary clock
• Theremin kit build
• A Cray-2 logic module
• Stokes’ ProjBlog
• Nixie Punk
• Symbolic math in Java
• 10x SD card

• This C-17 is actually quite impressive.
• DIY Spider Catcher.
• Warping text to splines.
• 6174 is an interesting number. And so is 1729. In fact, some people claim that there is no such thing as an uninteresting number.
• Rat or mouse?
• Compact Marble Run, made in four hours.
• Math Midway traveling exhibit.
• Big switch lamp.
• Some thoughts on edible lasers.
• Hello Kthulhu.
• Had not heard of Haidinger’s Brush. Have you?
• We want superconducting maglev train sets. Now.
• Cloud wakes and vortices are visible from space. Did you know that an island can shed vortices in its wake?
• Crocodile locomotion.