ColorSchemeDesigner.com is a nice javascript-based website that allows you to quickly and easily design web-safe color palletes with a variety of designs. Full support for mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accents are supported, along with Vision simulations for various types of color-blindness. Color selections can be previewed with a template light and dark site for a quick sample, and easily exported to RGB schemes, Photoshop ACO palettes, GIMP GPL palettes, and more.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.
I liked the author’s point of view, he gave me a lot of inspiration.