rubber bands Making rubber bands is incredibly labor intensive Rusty Blazenhoff

makers Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column Gareth Branwyn

delightful vegetables How many rubber bands does it take to make a watermelon implode? Rob Beschizza

makers Excellent way to make a simple bandana DIY mask without cutting or sewing David Pescovitz

makers Video about making blacker-than-Vantablack pigment in a home lab Mark Frauenfelder

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

tires Making tires out of duct tape and rubber bands Rusty Blazenhoff

chain reactions The best chain-reaction Rube Goldberg machine I've seen yet Mark Frauenfelder

makers How to make a coin-operated gumball machine out of cardboard Mark Frauenfelder

DIY How to make Wolverine claws from popsicle sticks Caroline Siede

watermelons At around 500 rubber bands, the external pressure forces the watermelon to explode Mark Frauenfelder

videos Coke Bottle Gatling Gun fires arrows Cory Doctorow

Kids Video: HOWTO make a paper cannon Andrea James

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Tiny wearable camera, rubber band loom, Picklemeister [Gadgets 005] Mark Frauenfelder

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

Science Dinner’s Revenge: mealworms that survive in the stomach, then eat their way out of predators Mary Roach