Ordinal's Cabinet of Ephemera

A selection of steampunk, Victoriana and Second Life news about which I do not really wish to write at length.

For longer nonsense, please see An Engine Fit For My Proceeding, and for shorter, see my Twitterings.

Nov 19

» Second Life Herald: The Great Bot Hunt

Nov 18

Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier - Boing Boing

Nov 17

b3ta.com board

Nov 07

» Science: Tesla Coils Playing the Mario Bros Theme are Unsurprisingly Awesome

» dead on second life

Nov 02

pac-man? that’s pac-gentleman to you on [technabob]

Oct 22

David Bushnell’s Turtle Submarine

Oct 21

Pictures! :: antique clock

Oct 19

» New Search Currently Under Development « Official Linden Blog

A promising development!

Oct 16

» Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 Makes Remote Pen-and-Paper Play Easier - Boing Boing Gadgets

Police revolver muzzle-cam from 1938 - Boing Boing

Oct 09

“ PloppSL allows you to create intriguing Sculpted Prims for SecondLife™ easily. Both texture and model are created in one step. Simply paint the front and back side of your model and it will be converted to a Sculpted Prim by PloppSL.

— Plopp SecondLife - lovely tool, off-putting name

Oct 01

“ Libertarianism, by contrast, is a theory of those who find it hard to avoid their taxes, who are too small, incompetent or insufficiently connected to win Iraq-reconstruction contracts, or otherwise chow at the state trough. In its maundering about a mythical ideal-type capitalism, libertarianism betrays its fear of actually existing capitalism, at which it cannot quite succeed. It is a philosophy of capitalist inadequacy.

— Floating Utopias — In These Times; China Mieville, one of my favourite authors

Sep 24

via Boing Boing

Paleo-Future: Boy’s Flying Machine of the 20th Century (1900)