TSI June 2009 newsletter
The website for Ephemerisle has been launched! Our upcoming aquatic festival now has its very own domain. Take a look and be sure to join the mailing list and follow us on Twitter.
News
Happy Tax Revolt and Secession Day!
I don’t think I can do any better than last year’s inspirational post, so I suggest enjoyable re-reading it.
If you’d like to read more about secession, independence, federalism, revolution, non-territorial secession, and related matters, go check out Secession Week at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom.
More shipping container homes
via OpenWorld comes the post How to Live in a Shipping Container, with a number of pictures of shipping container homes:
Nation Founding Classics: Laissez-Faire City’s ad in The Economist
Laissez-Faire city was a new country attempt in the 1990s, based in Costa Rica. Despite many flaws in the idea (some of which I document in my 2001 visit to CR), I will always have a warm spot in my heart for it, as it was the first project I had some firsthand experience with. Here is the ad they took out in The Economist in June of 1995:
New Retirement Cruise Ship project
I’m glad to see other people trying this area, we are actively investigating it as well, and the more players the better when it comes to getting acceptance for a new industry. It will be tough to make it work, though, a number of post-ResidenSea ventures have tried a condo cruise ship, and none have pulled it off. It is worth keeping in mind that investors, founders, and banks lost approx $100M to $200M on ResidenSea, out of a $270M or so investment!
Anyone Can Build A Boat
Maybe not a boat that goes in the ocean. But a boat for a calm lake? Totally, says Chicken John. Like, I think this boat is made out of duct tape:
His post has a few other examples. Great inspiration for Ephemerisle, whose website is now up at ephemerisle.org.
Secession Week Blogging Begins!
Check out Monday’s post on Secession Going Mainstream and Basics of Secession, or the Intro/Index Post, over at our sister blog A Thousand Nations. Please help us spread the word about Secession Week!
Video: Open Sailing
Via Justin Pickard (who has some entertaining commentary) comes this video from Open Sailing. I had some trouble understanding the concept when I saw their website awhile back (perhaps a language issue?), but the video makes it clearer. I like their idea for swarming algorithms based on weather, political systems, and so forth to automatically suggest good clustering locations for all the participating vessels.
Engineering blog has posts!
There seem to be almost no subscribers to the engineering blog, which perhaps is because it has no content! So I have made a couple of posts:
If you are interested in the engineering aspects of seasteading, subscribe here.
