This beautiful Mac rig uses outfits a classic Macintosh with a well-done aesthetic overhaul and a keyboard pulled from an antique Remington typewriter. Truly a thing of beauty!

Image courtesy of Dvice

See a little more detail at Dvice.

Being “the lighter side of Steampunk”, we generally shy away from all matters political. But SOPA (a bill that’s been “shelved” for now), and it’s equivalent PIPA, are directly relevant to us — because if either of them pass, we might not be able to exist.

In short, these bills would put the onus on Brass Goggles to check every single site we link to in order to be sure they don’t have any material that infringes copyright on them. If we fail, we could be taken offline in the US, even though we don’t host any of the material ourselves. This is not something we have the capability to do – our volunteer staff is hard-working, but there’s no way we could check every single link.

If PIPA passes, it’s likely only a matter of time before our beloved blog and forum are taken offline.

If you care about this site, too, please:

• If you live in the US, contact your Senators about PIPA and your Representative about SOPA. You can use the link in the black bar at the top of the blog and forum to find them.  Phone calls are best!
• If you live outside the US, contact your State Department. Telling them that these bills will affect you negatively can lead to international pressure; and it will send the message that such legislation wouldn’t be desirable in your country either.

Montblanc has a series of very rare Skeleton pens, and while they aren’t strictly steampunk, they certainly tickle all the right fancies to feel at home in a steampunk wardrobe.  Now all I need is to scrape up the $90,000 it takes to own one…

Photo by Montblanc Pen Lover

[via rare pens]

Artist ameobabloke created a lovely “antique R2D2″ droid:

Image courtesy of Amoebabloke

[via technabob]

Wood Goggles on Etsy

Wired has a pretty cool overview of a nice home makeover in the Steampunk style. It seems quite well thought-out:

Photo courtesy of Wired Magazine

[via reddit]

Who speaks for dead 19th century authors?  Diani, Devine, and Steampunks do!  In a horrible twist of events, the publishing company that currently has the rights to publish Huck Finn, decided to replace the N-word with “Slave”.  This is Literary Graffiti, and to change a word that was placed there by purpose to make people ask questions goes against the spirit of History.

Mark Twain was a humorist however, and so Diani & Devine think that if he were alive today, he would fight this butchering of his story with comedy.  So using the logic of the book butchers they shall replace the offensive word “slave” with a more pleasing one, “ROBOT”.   (Click more to get details to the launch party)

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Classic!

Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)

This handsome fellow is a 3 inch vinyl replica of the man who literally invented the Modern Age, second only to Charles Babbage and but one step above Isambard Kingdom Brunel in my book.  Nikola Tesla deserves a place of honor in a Steampunk Home.  He runs $6.45 which isn’t a bad price.

As for a brief review on him.  I only have two complaints.  1. Why is he only 3 inches tall?  I would love for this to be about 6 to 7 inches tall.   2. Why is this not a lamp!  His glowing ball of Florescent light should be spewing it’s Alternating Current of Justice to illuminate my desk!

Find him here: At Neato Shop

Looking for some Last minute Steampunk gift ideas?  A Kickstarter Project Has these beauteous playing cards.  They are over 100% funded and will be closing in 4 days. So if you enjoy the design you’ll need to act fast to jump on this project.  You’ll need to support the project with at least $20.00 USD to get one white deck and one black deck.  The lower tiers only offer you a discount in buying the decks.

Expect to see more Steampunk Gift ideas as we get closer to Christmas!