via OpenWorld comes the post How to Live in a Shipping Container, with a number of pictures of shipping container homes:

On a forum thread, Thorizan posted several interesting links to cargo container-based housing. CNN: Recycled homes, one box at a time

Using containers to build homes has increasingly become a trend in the past several years because it can be cheaper and faster than using traditional constr

(Another new snippet from the book beta, inspired by a lunch conversation today.)

When talking about how we'd like to revolutionize the governing industry, we used the metaphor that we'd like government to be more like the internet industry than operating systems.  One of the properties of the internet is that it is based on a variety of open standards which allow many diverse programs, companies, machines, and people to interoperate.  We'd like seasteads to have this property also.