And you are here why?

An excellent writeup at Core77 , which also hits upon my pet-peeve with the current fad involving shipping containers While shipping containers have recently enjoyed a high profile as prefab housing components, the fact is they are poorly suited to the job. Shipping containers are windowless boxes—all of their structural integrity is in their vertical corrugated walls. Eliminating these walls to make double-wide spaces means extensive and expensive structural retrofits to allow clear-spans. As for recycled shipping containers, they need to be stripped of about a thousand pounds of toxins before they are ready for habitation. Most important, once shipping containers are modified to be housing modules, they can’t any longer be shipped on the intermodal container network. If you add a 20-foot-wide glass door to a shipping container wall, this door will sit outside of the dimensional envelope of the shipping container—and if you try and cover and protect this glass during shipment, yo...

via Find Properly , we have this (somewhat) nifty interactive take . Its pretty nifty (especially the morphing between the Beck and Geographic maps), but it would have been even nicer to have a summary of some kind show up as a hover/tool-tip. Its embedded below, but go to the original to get the full experience ...