Congrats to the winners of the book giveaways! The winners for the Vampire Empire books will be posted soon.




If you’re looking for more contests, check out the Steampunk Empire’s countdown to its 10,000th (!!!) member.



In news which sounds like the beginning of a Jules Verne novel, a powerful x-ray beam will be aimed at the planet’s core.



Also Vernian, but unrelated: Look, airships!



Clockwork Watch, a multimedia project, is on the horizon. Go and see, and support it if you like.



The last link of the day is most definitely Not Safe For Work, so consider yourselves warned. It’s a photogallery of women from a New Orleans brothel in 1912, and is fascinating, but some women are clothing-deprived.