You know this word? Steampunk? I have been familiar with it for years and one of my students, in preparing for her senior project, asked me about one thing or another and I brought up this as a possible topic. I in turn did some checking and forgot about the marvelous community out there living this Victorian/Industrial Age fantasy. The photo on the left is an example of the items these people come up with: freaking gorgeous (click on the pic, I'll wait...). There is also the Brass Goggles one of the original blogs on the subject. If you have ever seen the film "Steamboy" you'll get an idea of the alternate reality created by the steampunk movement.
I just thought it was frigging cool. I want that desktop computer, just because...
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