Quoted: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Downloadable paper automata! (machines) Very cool stuff.

Quoted: Download. Each kit comes as an acrobat file. You can download the kit to your computer the second your order is complete. You can then view the file using the free acrobat reader which is available here.

Print. Print out the fully illustrated instructions onto paper. Print the parts pages onto thin card with full colour front and back. Most commonly available injet printers are perfect for this.

Assemble. Score and cut out the pieces. Glue the parts together with white school glue to make your own working, moving paper animation model!

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They have a bunch of normal-looking-but-actually-whimsical and Escheresque tie designs. But expensive!

Quoted: Take the plunge, ravishing silk ties

Quoted: Typography and symbol rugs cut out from felt by John Agelii

Quoted: This plugin is geared towards the enthusiast designer (somebody who can’t justify expensive software for a hobby). It will allow you to use SketchUp (available free), along with an SVG editor like Inkscape (open source). This means that all of your exact calculations in 3D can be preserved as a vector format in 2D for the actual construction process.

I want one of these! Too bad it's $1800.

Quoted: Currently Sold Out at Sears or available as the Carvewright online, the Compucarve is a compact, 3-dimensional computer controlled cutting machine. It allows a ‘novice’ to make a 3d routed object, with what looks like drag and drop processes.

The unit performs many other standard woodworking functions, including ripping, cross cutting, mitering, contouring, jointing and routing. The CompuCarve can work in most soft materials, including wood, plastics (polycarbonate or cast acrylic) and certain types of high density foam.

The unit ships with software and a range of designs, but you can program your own. I am sure you have to use proprietary software and an equally unfriendly file format (MPC), but $1800.

A very cool idea to celebrate World Pinhole Camera Day (who knew?)

Quoted: Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy!