The Best of 2006 in Blogging, Books, Design, Music, Video and more. Resources, pleasure, inspirations and good websites during this year. Enjoy…

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Feed Icons - Home of the standard web feed icon. Originally designed by Mozilla Foundation for the Firefox browser. Adapted by Microsoft. Vector version reproduced by Matt Brett (mattbrett.com), December 19, 2005.

ByIRIS Design how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.

October 2006: Beirut live in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall performing Postcards From Italy.
Beirut Band - Postcards From Italy (live in San Francisco)

Le sorprese son belle proprio perchè arrivano sempre quando meno te le aspetti. Questo fine settimana due delizie musicali: una scoperta e una riscoperta. Zach Condon viene da Santa Fe, New Mexico; ha vent’anni ed è il one-man band di Beirut. La band, appunto. Anche se è dall’età di 15 anni che Zach incide piccoli album, è a maggio scorso che esce il suo primo vero disco per la piccola Ba Da Bing! Records.

Ma The Gulag Orkestar, questo il titolo del disco, è troppo sopra le righe per non essere notato: la prima a notarlo è la storica 4AD che non ci pensa 2 volte a far entrare in famiglia Zach Condon e reincidere il disco, aggiungendo 5 nuovi brani.

E’ passato solo qualche mese, il disco e la Beirut band suonano (in concerto Zach viene accompagnato da otto musicisti) e giusto prima che finisca l’anno il negozio della Rough Trade scopre che è il proprio disco dell’anno: il primo della top 100 2006. Provate ad ascoltare Postcards from Italy e ditemi se non è bella musica…

E che bello ritrovare Tom Waits: si è presentato qualche sera fa al Daily Show (NYC) suonando una delle tantissime b-sides pubblicate nella sua recende collezione di 3 cd Orphans [Fold-out Digipak with 24-page booklet]

Technorati was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. [Sifry’s Alerts]

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The origins of the World Wide Web Consortium.
(…)In October 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS] (…)

The Sub Pop History Site “This site documents the look and feel of Sub Pop prior to 1991. It includes all of the original columns that [Sub Pop’s] Bruce Pavitt wrote for the Rocket between 1983 and 1988.” Also includes Sub Pop newsletters from 1990, an ad archive, and details about groups such as Nirvana and Mudhoney.

A partial list of papers written by people at Google, organized by category

For all those who’ve been good this year…
by Brand Spanking New

CSS Source Ordered 1-3 Columned Page Maker [by ClevaTreva Designs - The Generator Form v2.90] - Positioniseverything.net

Search Engine Land is a new search news blog launching December 11, 2006. Danny Sullivan, along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be providing information about search engine marketing and how search engines work in general, from a searcher’s perspective.

BuzzFeed automatically detect new buzz by crawling 50,000 of the very best web sites, blogs, and news sources. Then our technology crunches the raw data from these sites to identify new buzz that’s just starting to spread.

Information Leafblower
The Top 40 Bands in America - 2006 Edition