“Don’t look now, but I think our government just socialized everything EXCEPT medicine!”
–Jennifer Bishop via flutterby

Help design the Seasteading ’08 t-shirt

No conference would be complete without t-shirts. The Seastead Institute will have the logo on the front, and “Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead” on the back. If you want to make suggestions (or vote on the existing suggestions), enter them here:

Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead

The final list will be picked on Monday next week. We’d love to see your ideas!

Meme of the now

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture.
Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.)
Include these instructions.

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Glenn Beck talks to Joe Lonsdale about Seasteading

The first Seasteading Institute social was last night. What a blast! Patri gave a very inspiring speech about his motivations and hopes for seasteading, and I got to meet some very cool people. I’d guess about 25 people showed up. It was held at Joe Lonsdale’s house in San Francisco. Joe recently appeared on Glenn Beck’s show:

Your life as 936 dots

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Seasteading Social tonight

The first seasteading social is tonight in San Francisco.

Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080819/en_movies_eo/24472

Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way.

After a major court victory, the studio has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.’ anticipated adaptation of the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Fox originally tried to develop the project more than a decade ago, but didn’t manage to get the film off the drawing board. The studio claims Warners never properly acquired the rights to Watchmen, and, in a major twist, instead of seeking a share of the would-be blockbuster’s box-office gross, Fox is seeking to kill the flick entirely before it unspools in theaters March 6.

Large Hadron Supercollider Webcam

The LHC webcam is suprisingly interesting to watch.

Exploring Life Extension

Large Hadron Collider rap