Long term it's cheaper to not have your neighbors hate you!

Unless you have a strong military-industrial complex, in which case it's great business

This will definitely be useful for helping switch between work and personal projects on the same laptop!

The best approach is to go all in buying and selling land when the prices change. Ended with more population and more land per person.

What's really cool, is it's the first time that gittip has demonstrated that people can raise this level of money this quickly. The equivalent of ~$12k/yr in only a few days. With those numbers it might become a legitimate alternative to things like kick starter even for things that are more project oriented.