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Unusual Houses · Abduzeedo

jlam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:51:19 GMT

Years of giant trade deficits in consumer goods have left North America awash in multimodal shipping containers. Some have designed houses from them. One episode of This Old House featured a builder in Florida assembling four to six of them into a moderately-sized house.

Compared to other materials, containers come cheap, but the trend has yet to catch. I imagine living in a 40-foot standard unit might feel like living in a single-wide mobile home, and zoning would relegate it to mobile home parks.

Meanwhile, they appear as design exercises, along with many other unusual houses.

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Black Rock City on Flickr/Yahoo Maps

jlam — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:27 GMT

Built on satellite images taken mid-morning either Friday or Saturday 2005 as used in Yahoo base Maps, geocoded photos match only 2005 exactly. See in the satellite orthophotos the Dutch Windmills have already burned—Thursday evening, September 1. In 2006 Black Rock City moved about one kilometer northeast to Special Recreation Permit Site B.

The dilemma then becomes, should placement match geographic coordinates or rough features of the city? Whatever the solution, Yahoo could update the base Map at their choosing and break existing placement for most photos. Currently beyond the capability of Flickr Maps, the solution lays not just in geocoding but also in timecoding each photo and placing it on the correct annual map.

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Zooomr gives free unlimited Pro accounts to all bloggers, via LiveJournal, Vox, and all other Open ID enabled platforms.

jlam — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:08:06 GMT

Zooomr, an incredibly advanced, feature-rich, photo sharing community much like http://Flickr.com, offers free Pro accounts to bloggers who sign up and link back to Zooomr. For one year, they allow unlimited monthly full-resolution image uploading, storage, viewing, linking, and downloading. They promise to allow full access to the images after the first year, even if those Pro accounts do not renew, what an offer!

On the fore, http://Zooomr.com uses only an alternative login, Open ID, an emerging way to reuse your identity across multiple sites. Since developers at LiveJournal invented Open ID, naturally users of http://LiveJournal.com, http://Vox.com, and other Six Apart platforms can log into Zooomr and create an account without creating another identity and maintaining yet another password. Open ID lets users on these and all other enabled servers login into Zooomr and not only post images but also comment on others. Put simply, unlike Flickr, which now requires users create and use a Yahoo identity, Zooomr admits folks manywhere without yet another password. Quite a boon for replying, isn't this how social media should work!

LiveJournal keepers could follow the instructions at Zooomr, but rather than use MyOpenID, simply log into Zooomr and create your account! Bypassing MyOpenID frees you from its Terms of Service, a lengthy and vague license for a brave new tangled legal world with an identity service for a fourth party. Instead, Zooomr asks only a brief set of rules. Recently AOL (via http://OpenID.aol.com) and Yahoo (http://IDproxy.net) have begun providing Open ID support too, for all Instant Messenger screennames and Yahoo identities.

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