Facebook Funder Buys Stake in Fantastical Ocean Utopia  Hooray!
A bunch of eccentric rich people are striking out to create
their own sovereign nation in the middle of the ocean! Again!
You may remember back in the 60s when a pirate radio broadcaster
occupied a sea-bound fort 6 miles off the coast of Great Britain
and declared it the Principality of Sealand. (It's for sale,
btw.) But while that little adventure in sovereignty was merely
for kicks, Wired reports today on a venture much more exciting
for its batshit reasoning, impressive backers, and fantastic
scope.  Ladies and gentlemen, various Silicon Valley
millionaires present, The Seastanding Institue, "an organization
dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities 'with
diverse social, political, and legal systems.'" In other words,
a project funded in part by PayPal founder Peter Thiel to create
a libertarian utopia made of "vast clumps" of seafaring
homesteads in international waters. And, of course, they've got
a 300-page manifesto. They're not