In the mood for PC board snack? The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories can provide a component by component guide to constructing a confectionary circuit board. Heavens, they’re tasty.
Can’t get enough of Leonard Nimoy? Well, here ya go. Knock yerself out.
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I’m convinced that all chemists are pyro’s at heart. I didn’t say anarchists or criminals, I meant Pyro in the technical sense of the word. By 10 years into their careers, most synthesis or process chemists have experienced the awesome spectacle of the Mighty Exotherm at least once. Significantly, 4th of July demonstrations never recreate celebrated lab explosions or hood fires.
A good BLEVE is a real crowd pleaser and a sight to behold. However, professional pyros choose the more cosmetic displays, ignoring the really elegant deflagrating ether ketyl still or the fabulous ozonide conflagration. I guess we chemists will have to keep those delights for our own enjoyment.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
The Evil Mad Scientist Labs site is pretty interesting–glad you linked it.
While lab fires no longer leave me panicking, explosions sound much more unpleasant and I’m glad I haven’t had any yet.
The good thing about explosions is that they don’t last too long.
One soon tires of the commonplace and proceeds to contravene theory – can a flame be so hot it dissociates its own species and goes out? (more suited to philosophy than science) Solid flames like nickel-aluminum or titanium-carbon are a different dimension of panic. The refractory lump clearly cannot do anything globally evil and then, son of a gun, it does.
Klatuu Berada Nicto.