There was a time owning a piece of steampunk goodness meant that your or your friends had to have talent and tools at hand. Now thanks to Richard Nagy, the Datamancer if you have Money instead that will work just fine too. The Datamancer is selling custom steampunk machines for $5,500 dollars a clip, which is a discount on the price of future runs of the product. Nagy expects the price to end up being around $7,500. Which while it is a lot of money for a latop, considering the skill craftsmanship and time it takes to get a dell to be a delight it isn’t hard to imagine the labour being on the pricey side.

If i had disposable money these would definitely tempt me. Especially considering each model comes with a Key Shaped Steampunk USB drive, it would be like your very own steampunk Voltron! If this is your thing be sure to check out the Laptop Preorder section of Nagy’s Site!

DVICE.

Tags: datamancer, laptop, richard nagy, Steampunk, Voltron

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Bringing the funk, with a side order of noise!

Towels from Heaven, laughs from the heart

Thanks to everyone who has been stopping by and contributing to the show. We are working to make it easier to submit your story ideas, found links and other awesome bits to the show. Anything else you think we need to work on? What to Expect for today’s show. Lots of art and nostalgia, some nostalgic art, and some crazy and zany jokes. I love April fools day unfortunately gathering stuff for a news site such as this becomes treacherous AFTER the holiday has run its course.

Geek Cruft

• You’re all very Lucky! If this had gotten a lot of views I would have continued
• I got gotten! RE-35 doesn’t exist
• How to print better pictures
• April Fools roundup
• FEAR, the concept we discussed in the last show stayed with me, and spawned a doodle
• Gunbrella, Not a Joke
• Hard Times Art Hour!
  • Voltron Dans Les Coquelicots by Hillary White
  • Simon C Page: Hero and Villain
  • Vincent Kohler | BillonDe-construct your next construction job, count the trees
  • Dissertation on hearts, takes art to heart
• Nostalgia
  • All the beauty of the old handheld games, Nostalgia Wins
  • Voltron is actually coming back to TV: Defender of the Universe indeed!
  • So is Thundercats!
  • Steampunk is nostalgia for things that didn’t happen, be faux nostalgic for the whole year
• Killing Zombies? Need to do it from a distance? Machete Gun
• Help save Steve! Send in your Zombie tips
• Parkour in dreamland
• Kickstarter is awesome, from Desktop Trebuchettes to Coffee STUFF

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Romulan Ale, or Energy Drink Fail?
• Coffee Joulies, nifty Idea!
• More Power? Salt and pepper to the rescue
• Next week more Coffee, including the tragedy of the fallen coffee pot
• New site to read! Dear Coffee, I Love you
• Palm Civet or Baby Ruth factory Kopi Luwak, from Soup to Nuts

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Here we go with a quick rundown of each of the social networks I’m currently a part of and what is wrong and right with each one. Why bother beating about the bush here, we have needs they need to be fulfilled. There are problems and they need to be dealt with, shape up or close down.

Believe it or not most SocNet’s are simply extensions of USENET, don’t believe me stay tuned to find out. Don’t know what USENET is? I just died a little when you said yes… You should probably consult the oracle and reflect on your crime, By the By… You owe the oracle one cup of strong black coffee, and a bagel.

Just view them in this light. I’ve also begun to refer to each post i see about a new social network as YASN posts. Yet Another Social Network… you know its getting pretty thick in here, we need to start culling the herd. Weed out the sick and infirm and run with the strongest of the pack.

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Tags: britekite, identi.ca, jaiku, Plurk, pownce, social networks, socnet, twitter, Voltron

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On Today’s Show: Coffee, Earth Day, Paypal, Voltron, Cheese, and Espresso

• Know-To suggestions?
• Hyadis

Real News Bytes

• Prepping for Earth Day. Free Digital newspaper. RSS anyone?
• Paypal says better safe than Pretty. No to Safari
• Information wants to be free. Darwin’s Footprint evolves
• The kids are alright. If they play video games

Tech Cruft

• Cheesy News: Man Proposes using video game
• Voltron is next. Be all that you can build. Army looking into Robot suites
• Or just put a big gun on a truck
• Fight fire with Fire. Jet powered, but useless firetruck
• Jet 1 Pelican 0. But A for Effort on the bird’s part
• Nothing is scared anymore. Cloudvertisment.
• Homer floats nice

Caffeine & Food

• Cheesy News: Cheese as art
• Wiimote, espresso. nuff said?
• Science once again proves moderation is the key

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Tags: caffeine culture, Cheese, Coffee, Earth Day, Espresso, Paypal, tech news, technology news, Voltron