HOWTO make a Joule Thief and get all the power you’ve paid for

This wee beastie is a Joule Thief, a device whose sole purpose in life is to exhaust the power remaining in batteries that are too weak to do anything else. Simply build these and affix them to your “dead” batteries and thrill to the spectacle of the power you’ve paid for being available to you, right down to the last dribble.

Then go out on the porch, shake your fist, and tell those damn electrons to get off your lawn. If you want to skip the curmudgeonly comment, you can go straight to the instructable.

(I use rechargeables, so I have no need of an electron-marrow-sucking device)