I’m not at An Event Apart: Atlanta. Which is a shame because by all accounts I missed some wicked banjo playing by Dan Cederholm. And I love listening to some good banjo.

However, I am following along via Twitter, and saw this announcement by Jeffrey Zeldman, web design godfather and co-founder of An Event Apart:

.@simplebits just unveiled Pears pea.rs, an open source web design pattern library/WP theme. #aea

Pea.rs looks like a convenient little tool for web designers to bookmark, a library of sorts where commonly needed HTML/CSS patterns for common page elements like navigation, lists and such can be quickly grabbed and used. I’m sure you’re all so amazing that you don’t need it for your markup, but I also think for prototyping some page elements this might be a good resource to go-to to quickly grab and paste. You might also find a few new ideas on how to arrange your markup or CSS, too.

Check it out.