Everything is getting steampunked! Birdhouses, NERF guns, and more!

Gift Guide Tiny tiny steampunks can now ride in a miniature steampunk walker! Sneak it onto the game table to mow down orcs or to give your fellow mechwarriors a laugh! Just beware of ewoks wearing goggles and steam power log jams.
Is your home infested with the songs of blue birds? Do you constantly find parakeets in your vacuum tubes? Give these fowl friends a home of their own! No need to have birds interrupting your experiments and making nests if your constructs, just put up some steampunk birdhouses, complete with gears, cogs, pipes and ornament!

Nerf Maverick Nite Finder Steampunk Gun

Under fire? Need to shoot back, but don’t want to kill your opponent? NERF is your answer! Daze and confuse your opponents with foam darts, then when they are no longer blasting hot lead your way, show them the beautiful design of your non-lethal weapons and become instant friends as you admire the ornate craftsmanship and exciting colors!

The cover of Victory.
This book looks very interesting. It’s all about science and wonder and adventures! Victory is an onslaught of action-packed scientific adventure in full-spectrum color – containing facts that every boy and literate girl should know. Click the image for an in depth review.

Finally in the Steam Theater is It Shines, Shakes and Laughs. It is very strange. Watch the seven minute movie here.

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A Weekend of Steampunk Things (11-14-09)

As I am writing some steampunk stories, and as I enjoy steampunk things, I thought I’d write about a few steampunky things I’ve found out about this week.

While listening to the Clockwork Cabaret I heard about the Phono Vault. They sell the kinds of music steampunk music you might hear on the Clockwork Cabaret (even some on vinyl!). If you sign up for their newsletter, you get a free song a week. This week I got The World Turned Upside Down by Charlie Kahn. It’s quite an enjoyable listen.

While perusing the wares of a dusty bookshop I discovered a curious thing. On a pane of glass flickered the words Steampunk Magazine! I ran my fingers over the glowing glass and perused the magazine. Inside I saw many wonders on lifestyle, mad science, theory, and fiction. The layout and style of the magazine have the feel of the Victorian era. I browsed the latest issue, #6, and found stories about Lizard towns and madness engines, an interview with a steampunk rock band from London, an article on alchemy, and much more. All the issues are available for free online. There is also available A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse, which will be very useful in a catastrophic event.

I took a stroll in the Steampunk Workshop and took a gander at a fine looking Wimhurst Machine.

A telegram arrived and I learned that at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, an Art of Steampunk exhibit had opened.

As I walked down a country road, a house passed me by and they invited me in for a cup of tea. I was able to rest while still moving in my intended direction!

That’s about all I had this week, come back again to see more of the wonders I discover!

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