http://steampunklib.vox.com/library/posts/tags/april+fool/page/1/ all hail Verne and Tesla en Vox Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:16:17 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss april fool http://steampunklib.vox.com/library/post/fish-and-fools-and-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Steampunk Librarian) http://steampunklib.vox.com/library/post/fish-and-fools-and-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://steampunklib.vox.com/library/post/fish-and-fools-and-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:16:17 -0700 <div>Happy <a href="http://www.emmadavies.net/content/blog/nice/poisson-d-avril.aspx"><strong>Poisson d&#39;Avril</strong></a>, everyone! This was a fun holiday when I was in France. Here, it&#39;s not quite as absurdist, but the internet has made it more entertaining. Some examples are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml"><strong>flying penguins</strong></a>, Google&#39;s new <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html"><strong>custom time</strong></a> email, and a collaboration between Virgin and Google called <a href="http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html"><strong>Virgle</strong> </a>that promises to take us all to Mars. I took the questionnaire to see if I would qualify and got the following: &quot;Well, you&#39;re distressingly normal and could conceivably adjust to life as a deep space pioneer, though we recommend instead that you leave the Mars missions to the serious whack jobs.&quot;</div> <div>&#160;</div> <div>Also: <a href="http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570"><strong>Squidpunk</strong></a>.</div> <div>&#160;</div> <div>Which brings us to steampunk! No April Fool links here, although it may sound like one when I go on about Tesla towers and self-propelled Victorian houses...but both of these and more will be at the <a href="http://makerfaire.com/press/bay2008returns/"><strong>Maker Faire</strong></a> in May. </div> <div>&#160;</div> <div>The Cabinet of Curiosities has <a href="http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2008/03/cabient-of-curi.html"><strong>an all-steampunk edition</strong></a>; go and peruse!</div> <div>&#160;</div> <div>Will nanotechnology and body modification lead us into <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/03/etech-second-en.html"><strong>a second Enlightenment</strong></a>? We can only hope.</div> <div>&#160;</div> <div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/games/questionaut/pop.shtml"><strong>Questionaut</strong></a> is an educational game that is not really Victorian at all...but as the main character wears goggles and travels in a hot air balloon (a DIY one at that), I&#39;m going to say it fits. It&#39;s fun to play, too, and takes some problem-solving brainpower to move up the levels!</div> <div>&#160;</div> <div>If we get rid of trucks to save the environment, we still need a large-scale delivery system. Why not consider the underground pipeline? (Better yet, let&#39;s make them all pneumatic. Zoom!)</div> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://steampunklib.vox.com/library/post/fish-and-fools-and-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9702605e4cd500f48d09059f0001?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> games steampunk april fool maker faire