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Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project. Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge. It’s a great project. [...]

On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for �150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach. The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change.�Artist�Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]

Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too: “An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by�Pete Dungey, a�Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.” On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: �”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]