The Betacantrips Travelogue

A pretty image seen via pixelstyle.

Tor.com has an interview with James Ng, who explains some of the inspiration for his steampunk art.

Night Patrol: Assassins and thieves that dare to enter the forbidden palace would be wise to avoid the night patrol. Stepping into the circle of light generated by the patrol robot will not only cause the guard dog to attack, but will also set off the gong and baton alarm that summons more guards to deal with any intruders swiftly.

Seen on Planet Debian, this post.

Even at the most physical level. This is a cup that won’t topple over when you accidentally kick the desk! Gunnar’s Viking of Approval certifies it.

OK, no joke: LUST. I want an N900 so bad I can almost taste it. Um, anyhow, seen on LWN.

KDE.News has a report from the Maemo Summit, where Nokia handed out 300 N900 phones to developers. "However, it is not the hardware which is most interesting to us – it is the software. The N900 runs Maemo, a Debian Linux based operating system for high-end smart phones. Compared to pretty much all competition, the N900 offers a very open software platform and provides a terminal application by default."

Seen on Tor.com, some photography by Tyrus Flynn, particularly some stunning shots of "Steampunk Fashions".

Lots more neat stuff: Steampunk 101.

Check out this really cool casemod.

Seen on True Chip Till Death: Steampunk DMG.

This will be a (fingers crossed) fully functional gameboy with blue backlight, wood paneling, luxurious pleather and felt, and leafed in gold all-surface spray. Whole thing cost me about twenty bucks for supplies, and I just scrapped a bunch of household crap to it: A button, an old camera case and lens, wood paneling from a dresser on the sidewalk, a melted clock, and a shitty iPod case.

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“We Who Are About to Die of the Awesome” is a great name. On Tor.com, a story about a Roman mock-naval battle in Queens.

The museum was serious about the dress code: there were boxes of fabric out for those who didn’t arrive properly attired, and the biggest threat of all was, no toga, no free beer.

Oh, yes. The article didn’t mention that part. Free as in beer, beer as in rhymes with “oh, dear.”

Such a cool picture. But you needn’t watch the videos. From 8bit today, coverage of some releases.

August is only half way, but has already brought us some fine 8bit releases. A game, some demos for obscure platforms, glitch art and some pixel graphics are covered in this small list of 7 productions.