*Ø* Blogmanac | Cyber help for Jamaican poor
I have a mate who bought a shipping container which he modified and uses on his rural property for storage and as a cabin when he visits. Containers are cheap (about $500 here, or $US250) and make great, vermin-proof shelters. I also like to think that every container being used by human beings is one less being used in the appalling global shipping industry which has many people fooled that our local areas can't provide our needs. Here's another use to which a container has been put.

"The Container", brainchild of Paul Mobbs, is a Jamaican project to develop a community computing centre in a regular shipping container. Container Project aims to 'repatriate technology' by giving people access to information technologies, and the skills to manipulate them, to serve their own purposes – for example, developing their own digital media. Read about the Container Project