(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.)

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