10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

“Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML” (Nettuts+)

David Lynch Launches Transcendental TV Site (Wired.com)

“The iconoclastic mind behind Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and DavidLynch.com, one of the first celebrity membership sites on the internet, jumped into the online television game Wednesday, launching the David Lynch Foundation’s DLF.TV. The site’s focus is not on creating memorable demon spirits like Twin Peaks’ Bob, but rather spreading the word about a time-worn technique to eradicate them, namely transcendental meditation, or TM.” (blog.wired.com)

David Lynch Foundation Television website (beta)

Mother Mother

“Vancouver Canada’s Mother Mother are generating much recognition with their original approach to modern pop/rock music; a beautifully bent portrait of vocal harmony, clever, offbeat lyricism, and dynamic instrumentation.” (mothermotherspace)

Mother Mother – Hayloft – Luxury Wafers Sessions

150 Sueños Ilustrados

150 children’s dreams illustrated by different artists

Sumo Paint

web-based, Photoshop-esque graphics editor

Top 10 Paul Newman Films

An Enduring Movie Career (TIME website)

30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

30 beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial sites and designers

Eluvium – Genius and the thieves

8 chances to win Kindle 2 Wireless Reading Device

Here’s the list of websites where are Kindle 2 contests and giveaways.

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Interaction Design: It’s All About the Subtleties

Pop-ups have earned a bad reputation, mostly because design teams often use them to distract users with unwanted advertising. However, a well-designed pop-up with useful information can add real value to a web experience.

50 Best Websites 2008

I migliori 50 siti web del 2008 secondo Time.com

Guide to CSS support in email clients (2008)

“We’ve (Campaign Monitor) put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail.”

The Internet Bird Collection

The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world’s avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of the world’s birds that is available to the general public free of charge. While the initial aim is to post at least one video or photo per species, the long-term objective is to eventually include material showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g. feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species.

The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design

“Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas. After selecting a typeface, choosing the right paragraph style is one of the cornerstones of good typography. This is a brief inquiry into paragraph style for the Web.” [joetangerine.com]

Blue Note album cover archive

Vintage Vanguard

Fuga di talenti da MySpace, novità in arrivo su Facebook

Mentre da Myspace si è avviata una fuga in massa di talenti, ieri i creatori di Facebook hanno invitato stampa e top bloggers a Palo Alto per annunciare alcuni significativi cambiamenti all’esperienza Facebook. “The Facebook changes include a redesigned home page and a plan to make the ‘pages’ of celebrities.” Un resoconto della conferenza stampa di due ore è riportata qui dai tipi di TechCrunch. (via WBW, TechCrunch)

Carta da parati anni ‘70

Grande collezione

Gravatar – Avatar riconosciuti globalmente

Un gravatar, o globally recognized avatar, è semplicemente una immagine che ti segue di sito in sito ed appare accanto al tuo nome quando fai qualche operazione. Gli avatar ti aiutano ad identificare i tuoi commenti sui blog e sui forum web, quindi perchè non su ogni sito?? Gravatar è un’idea che nasce dai creatori di Wordpress

Le foto degli utenti su Street view

The Missing Google Analytics Manual

Get the most out of your Google Analytics with this collection of links to implement, configure and get insights from Google Analytics. (FutureNow’s GrokDotCom)