Cards Against Humanity buys a private island ("Hawaii 2") & gives it away

Cory Doctorow 6:00 am Tue Dec 23, 2014

Each 250,000 of the CAH Holiday Bullshit subscribers got one square foot of a wooded island in Maine, called Hawaii 2 (nee Birch Island).

The owners are subject to a license agreement that lets them do anything nondestructive (trees are especially sacrosanct: "If you hurt a tree on the Private Island, we will curse your family for a thousand (1,000) generations"). It's really intended to be a shared space for wildlife recreation activities.

The CAH project also raised $250K for the Sunlight Foundation.

We bought a private island and gave each of our 250,000 Holiday Bullshit subscribers one square foot of it.

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