If you'd like to make oobleck at home, here's the recipe from Peter van der Linden's book Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets: "If you have enjoyed this book

If you'd like to make oobleck at home, here's the recipe from Peter van der Linden's book Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets: "If you have enjoyed this book you might also enjoy the text Bartholomew and the Oobleck, by Dr. Seuss, ( New York, Random House, 1973). As Dr. Seuss explains, Oobleck "squiggles around in your fist like a slippery potato dumpling made of rubber." He doesn't tell you how to make it, so I will here. How to make Oobleck 1. Take one cup of cornstarch. 2. Add some drops of green food coloring; Oobleck should always be green in color. 3. Slowly knead in up to half a cup of water. Oobleck has some extremely strange, non-Newtonian properties. It flows like water through your fingers, except when you work it like dough—then it immediately assumes a solid consistency. Except when you stop kneading it, it turns back to liquid. If you strike it quickly with something hard, you can shatter it! Like all Dr. Seuss books, Bartholomew and the Oobleck can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. Software engineers can benefit from a sophisticated reading of Bartholomew and the Oobleck. The world would be a better place if every programmer would just play with Oobleck occasionally. The good programmers would be more rested and refreshed and the bad programmers would probably get their heads stuck to the table. But always remember, no matter how lowly or exalted a hacker you are, you are a child process of the universe, no less than the disk controller, or the stack frame mechanism (explained at such length in Chapter 6)." This book came out in 1994 so is dated now, but as you can see it's treasure!