Yes, steam does rise from it.

Steampunk screenplay based on "Hackers"

This is just incredibly unfunny. Even the pimple-faced chubby geek version of me in high school wouldn't even chuckle at this. I don't think "steampunk" is the infectious meme Cory thinks it is. I do think steampunk is very visually interesting and there's a lot of great steampunk art (GIS for steampunk) but constantly posting some new steampunk image is like knowing that guy who finds out he can make the cool kids laugh by snorting milk out of his nose, and does it at every lunch period.

The worst part of this little fan script is that you have to have seen the one star groanfest Hackers to even get the so called gags. I guess the big difference between me and the boingboing people is back in 1996 when Hackers came out, I was saving my pennies for movies like MST3K and Brain Candy, and avoiding this content-free jargon heavy box office bomb. Funny, "content free and jargon heavy" does describe Cory's postings pretty well.

Heck, there was a another steampunk posting yesterday. It looks more Dune-ish to me than Steamish, but what cracks me up is this line, "This guy is to lighting what Roger Wood is to clocks." Err, Who? I've never heard of this guy outside of BB. Now the steampunk non-craze is being used to promote Cory's pals?