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links for 2007-04-25

• Religion: The Pope Lets Go of Limbo | Newsweek
  With a new Vatican report, the Pope finally sends unbaptized babies to heaven — and signals that he may be less conservative than his image suggests.
  (tags: religion catholic)
• KICK MAP COMPARISON
  A proposed (and rejected) redesign of the NYC subway map.
  (tags: cartography maps design publictransit nyc via:swissmiss)
• Como se dice ‘Helvetica’? | SND Update Blog
  There’s been a lot of news made this year about the 50th anniversary of Helvetica’s debut on the design scene … But a much more senior typeface, Mexican Blackletter (a.k.a. Gothic miniscul), is pulling it’s own spotlight time now, too.
  (tags: typography design)
• Ebert: We spend too much time hiding illness | Chicago Sun-Times
  Roger Ebert writes about his recent health woes with an amazingly upbeat attitude: “There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I’m not going to miss my festival.”
  (tags: chicago movies health via:37signals)