Earlier today, some media outlets published a wackadoo rumor that Facebook co-founder and real life Justin Timberlake Sean Parker was planning to marry his fiancée in a medieval, Game of Thrones-themed, costume-mandatory ceremony this summer.

Musical haircut Justin Bieber has a new Christmas song, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and the video is inexplicably steampunk-themed. Sorry, steampunks: time to get a new quirky aesthetic pastime before it blows up among 14-year-old Beliebers.

Today's Gawker Giveaway features one of a kind mechanized frills from the eclectic Steampunk and industrial design house edmdesigns. Their Etsy shop hosts an abundance of Victorian styled, hand-made jewelry suitable for everyday wear.

It's a steampunk mouse. Duh! [Boing Boing]

It's a measure of the fluorescent-lit hellishness of the modern cubicle maze that we're consumed by nostalgia for office cultures that none of us remember. Part of the attraction of AMC's Mad Men is the show's depiction of Madison Avenue at the start of the 1960s, populated by hard-drinking chain-smoking womanizing ad…

"The Telectroscope is a 21st Century realisation of a 19th Century design. A tunnel bored beneath the Atlantic connects London with New York and by the aid of a complex series of lenses and mirrors allows people at one end to see and be seen by those at the other." Of course this steampunk art installation is really…

Now that steampunk is dead, the media is sending people out to videotape people who like to dress old-timey and make their computers look like steam engines. For example, Jake Von Slatt here shows the Boston Phoenix his custom keyboard and RSS telegraph machine.

Steampunk! According to the NYT's Thursgay Styles, it's a "subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives." They describe steampunkers as fusspots…