Save The Date: October 9th/10th
Our first annual conference will be Friday, October 10th, at Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. There will also be a reception Thursday evening (10/9), and an informal breakfast Saturday morning (10/11).
The Seasteading Institute
RSS feed of all site changes
I have just enabled a feed for all comments on the site. Most importantly, this will include all replies to forum messages, so you can keep track of all the forums with a single feed. I’m not sure if it also contains initial forum posts, but if not, you can get them with this feed.
Snippets through 6/23/2008
With my injured shoulder, work has been slow this month.
Migration
Vince Cate has written an excellent wiki page on Migration:
Why not buy a remote third-world island?
This question is common enough that it is in our FAQ (although buying land and taking over an entire country are answered together – should fix that). Adam from the Floatingman Island project, recently said:
Hakim Bey on Permanent Autonomous Zones
While the anarchist author Hakim Bey’s visions are different from our own in many ways, there are strong similarities as well. For example, Wikipedia says:
Ars Technica piece
Sorry for the lack of new content lately, I’m still recovering from my injury. To make sure you don’t forget about us, check out Seasteading: engineering the long tail of nations, an Ars Technica piece on us from earlier this week.
SlingSteading
My right arm got overly excited by this whole microstate concept earlier today, and seceded from its socket. While it has been forcibly reunited with its fatherland, it was weakened by the attempted rebellion, and as a result I’m going to be a one handed typist for a week or three. Obviously this means you should expect less blogging and not much in the way of replying to emails. I may pass off some projects to other people in the interim, we’ll see. Hopefully I can find some good typing-less work to do, like catching up on some background reading.
Snippets through 6/2/2008
Main areas this week – pictures, conference, volunteers, wiki.
