Volunteer Heidi Lein, who made the Conference flyer, has also created a print advertisement for us (PDF).  Good for cubicle decoration at work!

From The Onion comes a Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy:

BOSTON—According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn't even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for the other candidate in this year's presidential election, and there is nothing you can do about it.

 Lots of stuff this week...

 Here's a new section from the book beta, a topic I've been enthusing about recently.  Comments are welcome, as are pointers to any existing open-source projects which are similar to the idea.  If there are no such projects, well, someone should get cracking on writing one!  Oh, and if someone wants to make the logo described, that would be cool too :) (thanks to krustad for the logo).

 Some of my favorite pictures from Inside the £800m Dubai hotel boasting a £13,000-a-night suite and dolphins flown in from the South Pacific:

We have our first 2 schwag designs up at an online store!

 Lots of stuff this week...

Enjoy our first video podcast, in honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day!  Ye can also view it on our server in low quality or high quality.

And these fine pirate links!

BBC Culture Shock interview here.  They asked some pretty hard-hitting questions, it was a good interview.

Thanks for all the voting on Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead. We could use a wider variety of suggestions & topics - if you haven't yet, please take a few minutes to brainstorm funny / pithy / cute / witty ideas for the list.  We'll choose final candidates in a few days.

This was a fun interview, some good questions and a very business-oriented approach.

Volunteers Helen Lein (designer) and Chris Rasch (conference organizer) made us this great flyer (PDF). We'll be postering parts of Stanford and UC Berkeley with it, and of course y'all should feel free to post it anywhere in real or virtual space. The image links to a larger PDF.

We're going to do this community/web 2.0 style.  Here is the list of Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead, please add suggestions and vote on the existing ones!  We'll use it for the back of the shirt.

We need a final list by early next week, I think, to be printed in time for the conference, so please take a few minutes and help us now.  You can also add suggestions as comments here and I'll put them on the list, if you don't feel like making an account on the list site.

Via Sean Hastings:

THE world of extreme sports regularly sees its top athletes travel to some of the most unusual or exotic locations in order to carry out death-defying feats.

But never before have a group of international star skateboarders taken to the high seas as they did recently off the Essex coast.

The daredevils descended on the controversial “micronation” of Sealand, a former wartime fortress located six miles off Harwich. 

After being winched onto the weather-beaten outpost, the skaters performed a series of stunts that took them to the very edge of the platform, more than 100ft up in the air.

The article includes a video of the event.

Wayne & I have been working on pintstead designs (for conference schwag):

And jesrad has been posting some pics to the Flickr Group also:

 A little early, as I'll be out of town Friday - Monday.

Check out our latest press releases.  

Vote With Your House

Beat High Housing Costs - On the High Seas!

 Arnold Kling has a paper (PDF) which is directly relevant to the political motivation for seasteading:

In this essay, I will suggest that competitive government might be better than democratic government at satisfying the desires of the governed. In democratic government, people take jurisdictions as given, and they elect leaders. In competitive government, people take leaders as given, and they select jurisdictions.

Via slashdot, Google's patent application for:

• Community
  • Added a box to the front page listing upcoming GTGs, with a module that automatically parses our Meetup.com Calendar.  Yay for standards that let web services play nicely together!
  • The German magazine Cicero: "Magazin Für Politische Kultur" is interested in doing an in-depth story this fall.
  • Please use the wiki to keep technical notes after a discussion!