Morning Linkage (Apr 2)

Heavy on the visu­als today.

Touching pho­tos of Mexicans in America who sup­port fam­i­lies at home
doing mun­dane jobs dressed as superheros.
http://dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm

I will make time to see this mod­el and all the rest dur­ing my spring road trip:
http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/Comingin2009.htm

I am fas­ci­nat­ed by pho­tographs of decay­ing infra­struc­ture. From
Abandoned Britain, Helling Asylum: I chose one of the 8 pages of
pho­tos. Be aware that you can spend hours on this site.
http://www.abandoned-britain.com/PP/hellingly/5.html

Another vari­a­tion on plumb­ing mate­ri­als used as in light­ing design. I
like that he’s solved the switch prob­lem with­out resort­ing to a hidden
tog­gle or some­thing else non-plumbing.
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/31/kozo-lamps-by-david-benatan/

Useful key­board mod­i­fi­ca­tion soft­ware for any­one whose work involves
lots of get­ting all those pesky lit­tle typo­graph­ic glyphs to appear in
print and on line.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/02/typography-keyboard-layout-download-now/

More tomor­row,