I’m currently stuck in suburbia (while I get my life sorted out) where we see something equally as disturbing as the “how astroturf-green can you get YOUR lawn, neighbor?” syndrome: the tendancy to pave over lawn to provide extra parking for the second SUV + vehicles of the two teenage children. This nationwide trend is apparently contributing to increased flooding as the rain water which would normally be absorbed into the ground through soil (no matter what was planted there) now follows a different path to man-made drainage systems not designed to handle such a volume. This, plus numerous other social and environmental problems found here, have me convinced that the core problem is suburbia itself, feeding back as it does into the minds of those who live there (here… good grief…) providing a kind of self-satisfied, structural justification for everyone’s actions. Where we live, a handful of enlightened residents use part of their garden space for growing vegetables but by rough calculation it only amounts to 0.01%. Even among the enlightened we see the use of organic compost on vegetable plots while chemical weed killer is applied to the remaining area.

Not related to suburbia, I recently watched your excellent talk from 24C3 on the Arctic Cold War then listened to the earlier interview with Tim Pritlove and enjoyed them both immensely. It was a thought provoking experience and I’d like to thank you very much for doing what you do. Long may it continue.

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Motorless lawnmower? like the old push ones? wow.

The HD800 looks cool.. it does. Oddly enough, though Im excited about this new xacti I got, and it is my second one, IM still not convinced Sanyo knows anything about video for the web. or video in general. But Im excited at the prospects!

Where I live (in Oklahoma), grass is not as important to landscapes as trees. Being in a very windy environment, trees block wind and keep the soil from blowing away. Grass is also used in fields between crop rotations to allow the topsoil to recover.

I mow a few family lawns to help out the older folks, and because of gas prices and maintenance costs constantly on the rise, I sold my gas mower and purchased a motor-less lawnmower.

I’ve been wanting a new video camera for months now, and I think I finally settled on which one to purchase: Sanyo Xacti HD800.

PS: I wish you had this plugin.

btw, i peed all over your parents lawn. its dead now. your welcome.