Arriva Wired Italia

Non una semplice rivista, piuttosto una bibbia sin dai tempi della new economy, alla cui bolla è sopravvissuta indenne. (Kataweb)

100 Essential Jazz Albums

A list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. (The New Yorker)

Facebook Company Profile (CrunchBase)

“On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the student body at Harvard had signed up. Other schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network.” (CrunchBase)

Web Accessibility Resources

100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials | WHDb

The 32 Totally Essential (and Free) Apps for Every New PC

We (Maximum PC) have put together a list of what we think are the most essential PC apps for every Maximum PC reader. These are all free programs (except one) that should be immediately installed after a fresh build or reformat; 32 indispensable programs and utilities that we couldn’t imagine computing without.

Customize the AdSense Font

You may wonder what took Google so long, but you can now set AdSense ads to a custom font. You can only choose between Arial, Times New Roman, and Verdana at the moment

63 Must have Grunge Fonts

63 free grunge fonts shared via outlawdesignblog.com

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

101 Typography Resources for Web Designers

(Vandelay Design Blog) – Lists of Great Fonts, Download Fonts, tools, articles and more resources

How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed

(wakeuplater.com) The Evolution of Websites: Apple, Amazon, Adobe, CNN, Nike.Yahoo and more..

Canonical URL: how to tell Google about duplicate pages

Google Webmaster Central Blog: “Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we (Google) now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that’s accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.”

Xobni – Search Your Outlook Email Inbox

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that helps you organize your flooded inbox. Free download.

FDPF Library – PDF generator

FPDF è una classe PHP che permette di generare files PDF direttamente da PHP, senza utilizzare la liberia PDFlib. La F di FPDF sta per “Free”: puoi usarla per qualsiasi utilizzo e modificarla per soddisfare le tue esigenze.

The League of Moveable Type

A collection of open source fonts. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source

.htaccessEditor 1.0

An online tool for creating .htaccess files online

Future of the Internet (Pew Internet)

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.

The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos

“Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time”: Adobe, Apple, Canon, Google, IBM, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, Mozilla Firefox, Nokia, Nortel, Palm, Xerox.

Timeline of Web Browsers

Straordinariamente dettagliato

Flying Club Cup – Beirut band

Flying Club Cup è il titolo di un album della band Beirut. L’album, composto di 12 tracce, è uscito a settembre 2008; qualche mese più tardi La Blogothèque e The Take Away Shows team realizzarono un video per ognuna delle tracce dell’album.

Ne venne fuori Cheap Magic Inside, a Flying Club Cup Tale ovvero il racconto di un opera d’arte musicata in 12 episodi.

Quello che segue è il primo episodio, “Nantes”. L’indice completo è qui

Debut Art

Mogwai – I’m Jim Morrison I’m Dead

“There are no lyrics on this album, so all the potency, texture and variation of moods come from instruments alone. Mogwai paint pictures in sound; no words needed.” (Ian Rankin, Scottish crime writer)

Mogwai on MySpace

Yuko Shimizu selected illustrations

Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and a fine artist. She is also an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts, New York.