Found this site AmericanPassport.com - where you (as an American citizen) can order a passport online. My first thought was how are they going to prove who you are, binaries is rather easily forged (if you have the proper knowledge that is)…

Then I looked a bit further in the application part, well - it’s not as online as it seems. You have to print out a bunch of documents, sign and send them back and some of those has to be hand carried to an acceptance agent. You get the drift.

Why not just go to the local one and get a passport in hand for a couple of bucks?
In Sweden, you just go to a licensed photographer, take a photo, sign your name and glue the photo to a speical form and mail it in, identification is done by a birth certificate and that you identify yourself with a valid ID (or have somebody with you that can vouch for you) to the cashier at the post office. That’s it.