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:
News
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.
Offshore wave break – Wicked, Dude!
As I was falling asleep and visualizing breakwaters (design, manufacture, and deployment thereof), I thought about how my favored breakwater design works by making the waves pile up and break (as opposed to being a wall that breaks the waves). And suddenly I realized that, if it was deployed in a circle to protect a seastead colony…it would be a never-ending surf break!
Topsider Homes
Check out Topsider Homes, builder of Hurricane-Proof homes in the southeastern US:
Jim Lee: Floating Villages in Cambodia
This is a guest post from Jim Lee, author of the paper Castles In The Sea: A Survey of Artificial Islands and Floating Utopias in our Misc Resources section.
Flickr photostream
I’ve created a Flickr Group for seasteading images. If you’d like to be able to add photos, just email us your Flickr username and some example pictures. You can also subscribe to it by RSS. We plan to integrate the feed into the site at some point, but using a mature external service seemed like the easiest thing for now. Here is a live slideshow of the photostream:
Snippets through 5/28/2008
Sorry this is late, I’ve been sick since Friday, and a bit overwhelmed with the email deluge resulting from our big media week last week. Plus Monday was a holiday, so Friday will be my seasteading day this week. But I wanted to get this email out because there’s lots in it and will be lots more on Monday, I expect.
