Steampunk: I’m over it. And this ridiculous Steampunk Toilet is a good example why. I mean, come on. [NerdSalad via Technabob]

I mean, what else, right? RIGHT? Wayne Eyre—the owner—and special effects artist Dean Johnstone—the designer—thought exactly the same. In the immortal words of Gob Bluth: Magic! [Stuff]

This strange little nook, hidden behind a clockface, pictured below, that thousands of people see every day, doesn’t even exist as far as most people are concerned, except for the few intrepid graffiti artists who’ve made it up here—”SODA TIME” is an easy favourite defacement, but click through to the panorama to find your own—and the guy who comes up here to keep this thing greased and running, with appropriately quaint, old-timey oil cans.
His name is Vernon—an overly distinguished, he thought; one he always hated, and which the kids at the foster home made sure to hold against him. He was stricken with a rare fungal growth at the age of 14, which transformed his right eye—the good one, the one he could use to seek refuge in comic books—into a grizzled keloid. He was given, or bequeathed, really, a job by the friendless old man who’d been oiling the gears since the early 1900s, and who took a shine to the boy, for, however offensive his visage, he had a fine heart.

Until it was broken, by a girl from Hoboken. Her name is Tiffany, and she just couldn’t find it in her being to love him, no matter how many times Vernon made it clear, with kindness, affection, and even once, heroism, that she was his beginning and his end, his night and his day, his pain and his relief, his life and his death. Now, as Vernon sits idly in this faintly luminescent cell, oiling gears and scratching words into the walls. Tiffany is now on trial for murder, but trust Verne—and trust me—she didn’t do it. [Victor Hugo via the NYT via Fark]

You see? Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just a fully-functional Victorian house car on wheels tooling around the Nevada desert.

Be warned: The rest of the images in the gallery link below are light on gadgetry/vehicles and heavy on WTF, sexy Mad Max hippies, fire breathing and even some bondage. [LA Times]

Outfitted with a wood veneer finish and brass detailing, this Damnation Timberclad PS3 is clearly a member of the anti-steampunk movement known in some circles as vaporhood, waterprick, condensationjerk or aquaramones.

The modification leaves the system’s internals uncracked, meaning that this PS3 has an intact warranty (though mailing it back to Sony in this condition is not necessarily recommended). We’d hate to see them replace the custom ‘Liquid Iron’ and ‘Liquid Rust’ treated disc bay with *shudder* black plastic. [Brass Goggles via bbg]

John Herrman’s knowledge of the anti-steampunk movement was critical to this post.

Creator Alan Rorie says that the concept behind the Neuron Chamber is that there are alien brains inside the chamber that are under observation, and we’re watching the cerebral process at work. In this case, it’s an reaction moving from the Soma down the Axon of the neuron.

In actual terms, this is an arc puller causing an atmospheric reaction that looks like a flame moving down the rail. Rorie likens the design to a horizontal Jacob’s Ladder. Throw in some steampunky elements for good measure and you get a pretty neat art exhibit. [Almost Scientific]

While it technically does run off steam, Niow cautions you’ll need to wear insulated welding gloves to handle it without getting burned. This is why she’s temporarily using compressed air for now.

If she can secure a smaller portable boiler she’ll give the thing a run at full power, as was intended. Just wear those gloves as a precaution anyway, ok Ani? [Flickr via Laughing Squid via Hackaday]

We’re big fans of art deco, even though we’re not old enough to actually have lived during the actual movement—septuagenarians we are not. But, with BioShock being such a great-selling game recently, we suspect that art deco could be coming back in style. At least, we hope so, or our art deco bedroom furniture set would look pretty dorky. [Datamancer]

Plus, it’s actually kind of dangerous. Sure, people have been known to fall off a Segway from time to time, but the Legway is even more challenging to ride because it doesn’t turn very well and it requires a keen sense of balance. But hey, if you are a nerdy treehugger with a taste for adventure, it doesn’t get better than this. Hit the following link for instructions on how to build one yourself. [Instructables]