Here's one thing that I had no idea you could do with Delicious: bookmark color palettes!
This hidden little gem was apparently introduced one April Fool's day, but it was useful enough to stay (if not enough to become famous). To bookmark a color template, just save a bookmark and, instead of a URL, specify a color: prefix and then a bunch of HEX color values, like so:
color:FE9600,FFC501,FFEE4A,77477E,03001C
As you can see in the screenshot, the result is quite fetching. The only thing missing (in my opinion) is a way to display larger color swatches. The existing ones work well with Delicious' layout, but they leave something to be desired in terms of visual impact; I find huge, full-screen palette previews much more visceral.
Still, you can't beat Delicious' ubiquity and tagging ability. It's basically taking Adobe's Kuler, removing the Flash bit, and making it a lot more ubiquitous. Now, if there were just a way to search only palettes...
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