Top Ten Finest Sticking Substances Known To Man (Or Woman)

If there was a tear in the space-time continuum, I am of the opinion it could be fixed with these wonder-substances.

1. Hot glue. Hot glue rocks. I'm a recent convert. It's great for taking the strain off cables, for preventing bolts from slipping, holding solder joints true and for attaching virtually anything to anything else. It's far stronger than I remember it being as well - last time I'd used it was at school. They must've had special weak glue for teenagers...
2. Gaffer tape. It could probably hold together a train. Apparently Americans call it Duct tape, or some substance similar at any rate (I got confused reading Make magazine when they said that Gaffer tape was like Duct tape but stronger).
3. Cable ties. I think they're zip-ties or something in America. Translucent ratchets of ridiculous strength. While the previous two are for holding together big things, these will hold together the little things that go with them. When combined with the sticky pads to hold them to flat surfaces you get an instant tidy computer case.
4. Sticky Velcro. Whilst Velcro is, in itself, a wonder substance, it's not until it's got a strong adhesive on its back that it really comes into its own. You could hold down a helicopter with sticky Velcro.
5. Heat shrink tubing. The bodger's friend. All the shitiest/laziest soldering joints you've ever made can be instantly hidden and improved with some heat shrink tubing. It's like insulation tape, but better - there's no gummy adhesive that goes everywhere as it inevitably slips because there's no way it ever slips.
6. Insulation tape. After dissing it in the last section, it saves itself by being pretty damned opaque. For cables, I'd rather use heat shrink (provided there's a free end of cable to get it onto) but if I need to prevent light escaping around the edge of a light box- or a tear in the space-time continuum - insulation tape is where it's at.
7. Fablon. Aka sticky-backed plastic, or adhesive film, or something. A big roll of vinyl with glue all over the back. You can save an insanely ugly bodged case with some decent Fablon application. I've used it to line drawers and cover shelves in our house rather than replace the old ones that came when we bought it.
8. Laminator pouches. If the space-time continuum could fit into an A4 pouch, I'd laminate the hell out of it. Not only would it be held together tightly, you could take it in the shower as well.
9. Expanding foam. You know the stuff, you use it for filling big gaps and things. It's ugly as sin but you can carve it back and paint it, and it works as an adhesive as well. If the crack in the space-time continuum was getting big at one end, I'd fill it with this stuff first.
10. Blu-Tak. What, you've never held something together with Blu-Tak (or other similar poster-holding-up putty-like substances)? You are a FREAK and a LIAR. I had a hard drive in my Amiga 1200 held in place with Blu-Tak to lessen vibrations. Now that I'm a thirty-*cough* year old man I'd use something else, but back then it did the trick. It's also good for holding screws onto screwdrivers as you lower them into place in confined areas, and removing fluff from the window in optical mice.