Flutterby™! : Tim Hunkin

From Jerry Kindall comes illegal engineering, a history of safecracking, but it also lead to the rest of Tim Hunkin's fascinating and quirky site. Where else are you going to find detailed diagrams of exploits like making flying sheep:

In 1976, Wilf got us the job of making 400 pyrotechnics sheep and pigs for the Floyd's animals tour. A 6 inch mortar fired a cardboard tube about 250 ft into the air, when a delay fuse ignited a second charge that blew out the tissue paper animal

or pictures of coin operated animations, including a nutcracker which "works well on really tough nuts like brazil nuts, but tends to pulverise walnuts."