Year: 2009 (Page 25 of 25)

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,

Every morn­ing I send JimH a quick sum­ma­ry of my morn­ing cruze around
the net. He sug­gest­ed that you all might like to see the results as
well.

From Core77 a snarky short descrip­tion of how the US Mint makes coins
(cool pho­tos) there’s a link to the longer COINage mag­a­zine ver­sion at
the bot­tom. The oth­er entries in their Pro­duc­tion Meth­ods Series are
worth a look.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/production_methods_coining_12577.asp

Fun­ny Kin­dle case. (Yes I love my kindle)
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/kindle_2_case_mod.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954

Schneier has begun the annu­al “movie-plot” threat chal­lenge. Ignore
the first cou­ple of com­ments, the good ones are at the bot­tom. Check
back often.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/fourth_annual_m.html

Prob­a­bly an April Fool’s joke and cer­tain­ly the only way you’ll ever
get me to play gui­tar hero.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/guitar-hero-leonard-cohen-coming-this-summer/

There’s a new xkcd. It’s only sor­ta fun­ny. (IMHO)
http://xkcd.com/563/

More tomor­row if you all would like.