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   * http://www.utopianideas.net/
   * http://www.oceania.org/ (now defunct, but some decent renderings)
+  * http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/seasteading-sea-buildings-pictures/index.html
 ==== floating utopias ====
- "For each such rare project that sees (usually brief) life, there are many unfettered by actual existence" > http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/
+   * "For each such rare project that sees (usually brief) life, there are many unfettered by actual existence" by CHINA MIEVILLE > http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/
+  *"Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas" >  http://seastead.org/commented/paper/index.html
 ==== ocean(i)a ====
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 ... and in history
   * http://www.faqs.org/faqs/oceania/faq/
+==== Blueseed ====
+localised offshoreing.
+"Blueseed aims to provide an alternative solution to the US work visa problem for Silicon Valley and allow professionals lacking a visa to legally work in close proximity to companies and investors from the Valley. Blueseed plans to do this by providing living and office accommodations on a vessel anchored 12 nautical miles offshore from California (half an hour by ferry), in international waters outside the jurisdiction of the United States."
+http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/the-real-pirates-of-silicon-valley/
+==== history ====
+"The petty squabble between urban shore dweller and visiting seafarer is really just a recasting of the bitter, millennia-old conflict between settler and nomad, a social, economic and spiritual rift that in other parts of the world seesaws between bloody skirmish and nervous stand-off." http://www.griffithreview.com/edition-20/50-essay/52.html?showall=1