Tag: steampunk

  1. It still clicks...

    22 February 2007

    Remember those old IBM keyboards with the clicky keys that sounded like gunshots when you really got going on the console? It's a shame that they're so rare these days... what was done to this one is definitely not a shame, though: It's been turned into a steampunk typewriter keyboard, complete with working indicator lights and function keys numbered with roman numerals. All of the brass parts were hand fabricated, no less.. this is a true work of art.

    Please note that some of the images are broken - I suspect that's because this site is being slashdotted since it hit …

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  2. Wrapping gifts to the sounds of Lovecraftian horror.

    05 February 2007

    An old chewing gum commercial says "Double your pleasure, double your fun," but I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind.. one hannah Kersey, age 23 from the UK have birth to triplets. Triplets carried to term in her two uterii. I'm not pulling your leg, folks, she really does have two wombs. The three girls (two identical twins, and an odd one out) were born by cesarian section seven weeks early.

    Does anyone out there have a USB scanner that I can borrow? Mine just died in the middle of something important... The new threat to …

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