Apparently, Sealand is for sale. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out Wired‘s 2000 cover story on the artificial micronation.

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Now this is just a supremely cool idea: A nonprofit called Kiva is making microlending twice as micro by allowing individuals anywhere on earth to pledge amounts as low as $25 to be collated into loans to small entrepreneurs in the developing world. An intriguing next step would be a totally open-source approach to microfinance, […]

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Via Marginal Revolution, I see I ought to be wishing everyone a happy Global Orgasm Day. Be sure to do your part for world peace before the day is out.

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Via Wired News, I learn of a truly inspired concept: Baker Street’s biggest brain takes on the disciples of Cthulhu in a Conan Doyle–Lovecraft mashup of a game called Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening.

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Via Radley, I see I can finally link to an online version of Chuck Klosterman’s most recent Esquire column on the seeming impossibility of revolution in modern America. Short version: I’ve started wondering what would have to happen before the American populace would try to overthrow its own government, and how such a coup would […]

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You know, back in the day, Stan Milgram had to spend painstaking weeks creating passports to mail out to a “random” sample of Americans just to provide John Guare with play titles. Now, all a grad student has to do is write up a little blog post (and, in fairness, a script to mine Technorati) […]

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Via Dinosaur Comics.

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Missed this last week. from Robert A. George: There’s something painfully ironic about Trent Lott being named “minority whip.”

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Vertigo has posted the first issue of Doug Rushkoff’s Testament as a free download. I’d meant to start following this when it first debuted but (sorry Doug!) didn’t find myself getting into comics shops with any frequency. But maybe this is a good time to start…

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