links for 2009-06-25

• All About Blog Design: Customizing colors for the Journal theme
  I love the new default Journal Black theme in Typepad. I als love the fact that you can customize it without switching to Advanced templates. Here is a post by the themes designer that explains how to change things in the custom CSS. My only wish is that he had outlined the entire CSS this way. Since I want to tweak some alignments and get rid of the dingbat that sits on each post and (annoyingly each page)
  (tags: typepad)
• ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
  I'm making a few author sites right now and just found this awesome palette maker. Great for thinking about color sets.
  (tags: tools design)
• Informed Comment: Washington and the Iran Protests: <br> Would they be Allowed in the US?
  Juan Cole has some very good and sadly true observations thinking post, ...Moreover, very unfortunately, US politicians are no longer in a position to lecture other countries about their human rights. The kind of unlicensed, city-wide demonstrations being held in Tehran last week would not be allowed to be held in the United States...