Seasteading Radio Ad
Give it a listen. It’s awesome! The ad will air on Free Talk Live. Normally we don’t pay for advertising, but the rates were cheap and it’s a pretty targeted show, so we figured we’d give it a try.
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How to Start Your Own Country Anthem, by Danny Wallace
This is by Danny Wallace, a British Comedian, who had a TV show about trying to start a Micronation in London called [How To
James & Patri Tour ResidenSea
We came, we toured, we partied, we left.
Before tonight’s Independent Institute reception on ResidenSea, we were informed that we needed to submit our names 48 hours in advance for background checks, and bring an ID. Perfectly reasonable for a ship full of deci and centimillionaires (if you can afford $300k+/year for a property you use 3mo/year on average, you probably have quite a bit o’ juice!). James & I figured we’d be shuttled straight to the reception, and only get to tour the ship if we made a friend onboard.
Guggenheim “Shelter” Design Contest – Single-Family Seasteads?
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition.
Robert Ballard’s TED Talk on ocean exploration
A number of people have emailed me this awesome video, and it was posted on the forums. Some quotes from Robert Ballard:
“NASA’s annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA’s budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.”
_”Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean.
Suggest and vote on key sections for the book revision
One of my major projects during the summer and fall of this year will be getting the seasteading book in shape for publication (initially via POD). I have a giant pile of links and ideas about little sections to write – there is an arbitrary amount of nuance, fun speculation, and neat technologies that could go into the book. But I don’t have time, and even if I did the final result would be hugely bloated. So I need to start by 80/20ing the book – nuance and fun can be added later.
I want your help.
Media update
Well, the Discovery Channel show was pretty disappointing, they only used 5 seconds of the hour+ they filmed of me, although some ideas from the book were featured. I will restrict my comments here to saying that I do not favor many elements of their floating city design. The Reason Magazine article, on the other hand, is excellent! Mainstream vs. niche media? TV vs. print? Who knows. But we will not be posting a video of the Discovery Channel cameo, you should just go read the Reason article instead.
TSI Booth at Maker Faire – Video
This time-lapse video of Maker Faire by Bill Sherman was shot from right outside the TSI booth, so its basically a time-lapse video of us! You can see Liz throughout the video, as well as several volunteers, and a little of me (in the bright light blue shirt) towards the end.
20,000 Nations Above the Sea: Is floating the last, best hope for liberty?
Reason Magazine has published an in-depth story about seateading, 20,000 Nations Above the Sea: Is floating the last, best hope for liberty?, which begins:
Ideas evolve quickly along the Friedman family tree. The late Milton Friedman, an economist at the University of Chicago, was one of the 20th century’s most respected and influential advocates for classical liberalism.
Seasteading book wish list
If you ever feel like purchasing gifts for TSI and our Seasteading Book Library, here is my seasteading wish list on Amazon:
If any of these books interest you, one option would be to buy it, read it, and then donate it to us when you are finished.
