• Mickey Mouse Logic is darn useful.
  
• Gag gift for a cat owner
  
• Xylocopa Design: especially the anglerfish earrings.
  
• The Zero Dollar Homepage
  
• Mini Yip Yip
  
• Valentine on a Peggy.
  
• I love Fred products. Check out the packaging on this one.
  
• low-voltage fuorescent driver
  
• Pac Snacks
  
• Magnet curtains
  
• Cute AVR ISP to breadboard adapter PCB. [via]
  
• High-voltage cake
  
• Research LOLcats
  
• SpriteStitch
  

• Knitted Algorithms and fractal stamps.
• Brilliant flat-panel solar clock.
• DARPA bumper sticker.
• Overly cute Robot Scarf with tutorial.
• Autonomous Foosball Table.
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories officially endorses this Zelda Quilt (of power) by the makers of the incredible Galaga quilt.
• I just can’t help loving zip tie rings. [Via Make]
• Fiber optic candy. Here is the patent. Now where can I buy some?
• Dancing Davros.
• Hacking Signs for a higher purpose.
• Be sure to get your Bittersweets in time for VD this year.
• K’nex + LEDs = awesome, surprisingly enough.
• Breadboard cake.
• Cuttlefish don’t recognize it when they see themselves.
• A litter of young chips, nursing.
• Cat Scratch Dog.
• 555 metronome.
• Grow Moss in a Pot!
• The largest known volcanic explosion in Earth’s history happened in … modern day Colorado.
• And the biggest (recorded) earthquake in the USA was in modern day Missouri.
• FSM Wirework.
• Mupcakes. Like the Muppetones, but edible.
• When you want to find a comparison between Sottocenere al Tartufo and Speziato al Tartufo, the Cheese Mistress comes through.
• The HSC Electronic Supply branch in Sacramento, CA has closed. Liquidation sale: January 18 & 19, 10A-5P. “Everything MUST GO, including the fixtures!” (p-a-r-t-y?)

Holiday gifts, some math fun, and the usual weirdness.

• We personally endorse the excellent Geek Jewelry from Nicholas and Felice. Here is a bit about the making of.
• Acorn Studios products: Even more geek jewelry
• Don’t count sheep in this chair.
• What’s special about that number
• Virtual Slide Rule. Score!
• Pizza: the final frontier
• Kitties are great. This one likes to play in the water.
• Making fractions easier: Tips that sometimes work.
• LED Hanukkah Menorahs for sale by Lyle.
• God Hates Shrimp (or so I’m told).
• FSM Holiday e-Card Machine

(The revenge of random stuff; November edition.)

• Check out the Dalek Cupcake Army by Cat Morely of Cut Out + Keep! Speaking of which, Cut Out + Keep has a new projects section and is looking for your contributions to it.
• Objects of desire
• (2D) Dalek cookies!
• Tiny, but not surface mountelectronics
• What makes an office bathroom great?
• 1862 Bar-Tender’s guide
• A cylon pumpkin with a movie.
• Cylon Vexplorer
• Another cylon pumpkin, who has some cool friends.
• A Variation on our Snap-o-lantern using an XBC
• The sordid story of the Signetics 25120 9046xN fully-encoded random access write-only memory IC. (Datasheet here.)
• The final word on cats versus dogs
• Playpen ball calculator
• Dubya… veal….
• Umbrella bats continue to show up here and there.
• If only I had one of these in high school.
• Make your own iron-on letters.
• The British translation of Rube Goldberg is Heath Robinson. (And Brits, vice versa.)
• More component art (thanks Patti!)
• LOLBLADERUNNER! (And more)
• Weird blinking lights.
• New honorary Mad Scientist: Rebecca Stern. (Rebecca, you rock!)
• My photo of a transistor was featured in this promo piece sponsored by Intel about their new chips.
• Screenprinting chocolate. Nice.
• History of the Utah Teapot
• Binary cookies.
• Is it christmas? (On average, the answer turns out to be no, by the way.)

• After my video has had 10^6 views on YouTube, I have learned, firsthand, the sad truth about such things.
• Costume for people who like Big meatballs.
• The ID Please flickr group.
• Cute 500 watt cat
• My new favorite expression: “Sneakier than a dehydrated grape brick.”
• Whoever put together the graphs on page 9 of this PDF datasheet (for an SMT DC-DC converter) should be shot.
• Hey Okies, what’s with your tasteless new license plates? (via).
• I bet that magnetically controllable liquid photonic crystals would be fun to play with.
• I could look at this table of data structures all day long. link.
• I bet that the people who run this blog are as freaked out by looking at Evil Mad Scientist as we are when we look at their page.
• I like LED Jack o’lanterns
• List of electrical plugs in different countries. Yup, that’s useful.
• I like that the BBC has an updated Dalek Cake recipe.
• Beware, there may be Daleks already lurking in your kitchen.
• I wish that I had a good excuse to build a web site based on tiddlywiki; I really like the interface.
• Speaking of awesome things, check out this video made with Google Street View. It should be longer.

• Could you decode a message from an alien civilization? Here is your chance to find out.. It’s one of the most rewarding puzzles that I’ve ever seen.
  (Hint: print the pages out large to work on it.)
• Individual Icons makes fantastic geek jewelry incorporating screws, rulers, thermometers, levels, and compasses.
• See also: GeekGirl Jewelry made from electronic components
• Density game
• If you like evilmadscientist.com, then you will probably
  also like….(similicio.us)
• New Honorary mad scientist:
  Tim Hunkin(thanks Matt Tovey)
• Another variation on our circuitry snacks
• Video showing what you can do with a mac laptop and Processing.
• Every math geek chef and their brother has seen the beautifully fractal Romanesco broccoli, but I had never seen the more mundane fractal hiding inside red cabbage.
• ACME Portable Hole $3.25/3
• Have you ever found yourself wondering where you could buy 3D glasses by the thousand? (Not… that… i… would… have… any reason for that.) Source 1, Source 2.
• What every baby needs
• Bagless shopping concept
• CandyFab has its own
  wikipedia pagenow.
• Custom PCB is yet another low-cost prototyping service that nobody seems to know about. They have been around a while, but I haven’t tried them. (Have you?)
• There are not many things that would I would trade-in my Prius for. Not many.
• How to prepare a kiwi
• Admit it. You want this squirrel-infested coffee table.

• John Maeda made a misspeller
• Earth and Moon to Scale
• For reasons that are completely unclear to me, my picture of a very happy door (blogged here) got dugg. (Our circuitry snacks also got dugg this week, so maybe it’s okay.)
• Bagel Throwies!
• Lego AT-ATcollection. I particularly like the ultra-minature ones, linked from that page.
• Fractal pumpkins
• If you have kids, and live in Kansas, you might consider moving, so that your kids can get an education. [via]
• Notes on growing sugar crystals.
• Rock, Paper, Scissors. Like random chance. If only we had three sided dice. (Or a multiple thereof.)
• Robowerk Simulator— for designing hobby robots– complete with animation. This has great potential.
• There’s a new short DVD out from Bitter Films.
• Free* CandyFab Stickers

Yes, it’s that time again when we round up and post some of the cool stuff out there on the interwebs:

• First, check out this remarkable movie of Robot Arm Clocks. The creativity and resourcefulness shown in this project is astounding– look at all the different kinds of clocks that they made– holy cow.
• Those of you who are into AVRs and LEDs (you know who you are) might like to look at this page of LED games. It’s in Japanese, but worth the effort to look. (You can always cheat and translate it too.) Source code is there for the downloading, kits are available– in Japan at least– and there’s also an alpha-stage version of BASIC for AVR there too.
• Those of you who are not into AVRs and LEDs, but want to be, please check out Ladyada’s new, extensive, and growing AVR tutorial.
• Next, get yourself an RC Predator kit. Includes digital camera.
  See also: this DIY version.
• Anybody for Dust hockey?
• Here is something that I thought was needed and somebody else did it so I don’t have to: It’s a list of readily available chemicals.
• Neat scale models of planets and stars. (The Sun I can grok. Antares, not so much.)
• Excellent Periodic table satchel at Etsy. Sold out, but you should tell the seller to make you one.
• An oldie but goodie: the Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics tells you, in gory detail, how laser diodes work. (I took a semiconductor laser class in grad school. This was one of the references that we were given. Really.)
• Not exactly CandyFab, but this rock-candy jewelry is interesting.
• Tinkerlog has more AVR-ish goodness.
• Awesome FedEx Shirt
• Serious Eats. Cool food blog.
• Tastespotting. Food pseudo-blog for the illiterate visually oriented.
• Kawaii Not, the web comic for cute gone bad. Link goes to my favorite strip.
• Graphical resistor color calculator
• A report from Julian Bleecker (techkwondo.com) about ordering PCBs from Gold Phoenix.
• Cocktail Party Physics. Another sciencey blog.
• There’s something odd, amusing, and slightly awesome about these dog wheelchairs. Their anti-bite collars aren’t bad either.
• Fun online Crystal lattice toy
• More playing with food.