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Creative Commons License – Additional Rights Granted

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Designs by Jake von Slatt on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license granted below: A commercial exception is granted for use of designs displayed on this website by the author Jake von Slatt for individual

Antipodean Steampunk Adventures

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Cliff writes: Just thought you might be interested in one small part of steampunk in Australia. the photo is of my computer build, I have yet to add power supply, monitor, keyboard and mouse – but they are coming along nicely.   Your work and your site are well

Jake on WIRED Science

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Last year I had the privilege of taping a segment for WIRED Science with Chris Hardwick.  As far as I know the piece never aired (“not sciencey enough” I heard through the grapevine!  😉 ) but it’s finally turned up on the WIRED Science website. There is a larger

CogitO

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Luke writes: Sir, I have no idea what your personal politics are, but I feel that purely from a creative and professional point of view, you might enjoy this. We do indeed, Thanks Luke! As far as our personal politics are concerned, we find Obama and Biden somewhat conservative

Jay Leno’s 1906 Stanley Steamer – Part 2

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Here is Part 2 of Jay’s 1906 Stanley Steamer piece. Enjoy!

The Mans Heart

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Here’s a picture of the completed heart of The Burning One built by our own Meredith Scheff! This is a screen grab from the incredible Fullscreen Gigapan of the Man at Gigapan.org!

Steampunk Scooter in Japan

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James writes from Hirakata, Japan: Hey!  Big fan of the site and of anything and everything steampunk…Funny thing is, there are so many people who are straight-up steampunk without even knowing that such a cult underground exists.  For example, when i was a teenager, I modified a 13inch TV

It’s About Freedom, Sir . . .

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We’ve seen this gentlemen before here at The Steampunk Workshop. He is Stephen Fry and in addition to playing the inimitable "Jeeves" in the ITV version of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster he is a supporter of free software. The GNU organization has, created, nurtured, and fought for

The Music of Mr. and Mrs. Hazelwood

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I’m not sure how to categorize these two – also, I’m not a music critic so I just don’t have the language.  Think Squirrel Nut Zippers with some Goth influence.  It’s neat stuff, old timey but with a nice edge. Have a listen here It is my understanding that

Velokraft No Com – WANT!

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WISIL HPVers is one of the best sites on the net for information about recumbent bicycles.  I’ve recently managed to get sir CodPeace of The BostoDelphia Blog interested in them and he sent this link to a review of a bike that I must have. This bike was conceptualized