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An anonymous reader sent me a rather weird ad on Craigslist: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

I’m not sure which is more disturbing: that someone wonders that, or that it is the W4M section.

DealBreaker has found some odd ones too. Oh yea, be careful what ads you respond to — it might end up haunting you later on.

You have heard of homesteading (claiming unclaimed land) before, perhaps even seeing it take place in the film, Far and Away.

Patri Friedman (all around geek that works at Google and writes at Catallarchy) apparently had some free time over the past few years and worked on what is truly the ultimate guide to constructing a self-sufficient community on the high-seas; and it is aptly called Seasteading. See the Powerpoint slides from a presentation he gave a couple years ago.

In addition to wading through the swaths of information presented there, you might also be interested in a hands-on account of Project Atlantis — a similar concept to Seasteading put together during the 1970s by Werner Stiefel.

And if you just cannot wait for any of these to germinate and you have $1 million, you can buy your own studio apartment on The World, a large residential cruise ship operated by ResidenSea.

See also: Ocean reclamation, the building of artificial islands

Economist Arnold Kling pointed to a new paper that truly synthesizes many of the problems higher education has as both a business plan and as a institution for instilling intellectual curiousity (or lack thereof).

It almost makes me wish I had never gone to college, or rather, that my friends who did not, were really ahead of the game.

See also: Teaching teaching to teachers about teaching teaching to teachers.