GIP: teal deer

A while ago, I was looking for a teal deer icon for tl;dr moments.

Google Image search (I think it was) led me to this cute picture of a teal deer, which I have now made an icon of, by permission from the artist (Kunika).

Goodbye, Swiss Cottage

The other day, I came across a web form that would let you enter just your UK postcode and it would try to pre-fill most of your address.

For a lark, I entered GL55 6HS, the postcode that my grandparents had for many years. But their house name isn't there any more :( I suppose some later occupant renamed it.

The road, Grevel Lane in Chipping Campden, still doesn't have any house numbers, so the postcode lookup just gave me list of house names (bit more than a dozen, I think) - but no Swiss Cottage. (There was a "Stella Maris", which rang a vague bell. A neighbour, presumably.)

It's been years since I was there last; I was a child at the time. So I'm not sure what it looked like or precisely where it was. But looking at Google Street View brought up what I think might have been it; unfortunately, the entrance is a bit off the main road and you can't see whether there's a sign with a house name on it from the Street View.

Ah well!

Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law

Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law (860K PDF) - a fascinating article about Sealand and HavenCo.

The author, James Grimmelmann, is an Associate Professor of Law, and the paper deals mostly with the legal questions surrounding HavenCo and its relation to law (such as that it thumbed its nose at national law relating to things such as copyright yet depended on international law regarding the status of Sealand and also on national Sealand law to ensure that its operation remained legal there) - but there is also a fascinating section on the history of both Sealand and HavenCo.

An interesting read, I think, for both people interested in micronations and those interested in data havens, cypherpunk, etc.!

There is also a PDF of slides from a presentation which summarises the paper in the second half and has lots of interesting pictures in the first half! Including many views of Sealand itself (from the outside and some of the quarters inside), a picture of some server racks, as well as some of the people involved (including, presumably, Prince Roy and his wife Joan, though the pictures are not captioned).