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<a href="http://makezine.com/magazine/" target="_blank">Make</a> magazine goes 'fringe science' this issue and it includes a great piece about one boy's adventures with the bizarre Hieronymous Machine. This first appeared in the pages of <a href="http://www.andrew-may.com/asf/" target="_blank">Astounding Science Fiction</a> after enamouring its editor John W Campbell Jr. William Burroughs also became a fan, calling it the wishing machine.

Here's a <a href="http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/09/in_search_of_psi.pdf" target="_blank">PDF of the article </a>

Plans are included in the PDF but here's <a href="http://www.geocities.com/c_cosimano/thehieronymouspattern.html" target="_blank">a set online</a>. The great beauty of this arcane device,  however, is that you don't even need to <em>build</em> the thing for it to work. Just print out the plans and it will sync up with your psionic abilities and do your bidding.

Now that's what I call science! Just don't tell <a href="http://badscience.net" target="_blank">Ben Goldacre</a>...