Run Run Rudolph

30,000 lights to rockin' Christmas music.  This is the spirit showing how we beat the Commies ...

Happy birthday, Vacuum Tube!

On this day in 1904, the electrical Vacuum Tube was patented.  It revolutionized the world, allowing electrical (as opposed to mechanical) switching.  Forty years later, it was the core technology of ENIAC, the world's first computer.

I remember Gray Beards who called these by their old name, "valves".  That is a great way to think about them, with electrical current representing flowing water in pipes, and vacuum tubes acting as valves to open and close the pipe.  And I remember listening to baseball on our old 5 tube superhet radio.

The H.M.S. Steampunk

Isegoria brings the cool.  No doubt a work of the League of Gentlemen Naval Architects.

Real Steampunk

What's cool is just how well this century-plus old technology still works today.

The greatest visual pun of 2012

It's early, but this now officially has pole position.

Well done.

Steampunking your Nerf pistol

Pretty cool step-by-step instructions.  You're basically just painting it steampunky colors.  And just in time for Halloween.