Tokeleau or Dot TK.: ok the other day, when i was just wandering thro the net, i came across this dot tk site. It is one of those guys who give you a domain free so that you can use a short and specific domain name ending with a dot tk and then redirect to any other domain you have, which might have a very difficult name. sounded like a nice concept. they run ads on your dot tk domain and you have to pay them to get these ads removed. or you can buy these domains to have control over them... whatever... but that is not what is ineresting. i wandered a little more and stumbled across tokeleau. Tokeleau is a small island noth east of newzeland - it is in the middle of nowhere in the sea. it seems it takes 32 hours by boat to get there from the nearest place. and this is a set of 3 islands or as they call it atolls (whatever) i think the islands put together would not have more than a thousand inhabitants. ok.. why am i writing about this.... well nothing, it sounded so romatic. a island in the middle of the ocean, with no acess to anywhere. especially to ppl like us who are used to living in the mainland. a UN report also says that global warming will drown these islands some time during this centuary. now that is even more adventerous. its a nice dream to settle in that island, you get to fish, climb coconut trees and then fish and then climb coconut trees and fish and climb trees....
also mentioned is the fact that the dot tk project has installed a browsing centre and high speed internet on the island. its like a study on the effects of the internet on a very distant cut off society. anyway, should be interesting to live in that place. will do some more research on it later.
also... those guys in the island are so jobless that they come up with innovative ways to make life interesting. they have different numbering systems for different things. For us two coconuts is same as two monkeys.. the concept of the number two is the same in these cases. But for them, they have different numbering systems for cocounts,a different numeral system for octopus, and yet another system for fishes...
anyway, once u go there, i am sure you will not much free time on your hands. you will need much more than a normal human life span to get thro two or three of their systems.