What a find Sarah! It's funny, it's often not the BIG things, but the small ones that can make such a big difference. The improvement in typing Markdown over HTML is pretty small, but when you're in the WP text editor every day, the speed, convenience, and visual cleanliness of Markdown just makes it easier and faster and I feel better about the whole thing.

In the case of Awesome Color Palettes, I don't put out palettes every day. Although I have used ColorLovers.com & design-seeds.com on occasion. In this case I think it might be "fun" as much as "function," although it is a pretty nice way to drop a hex palette under a logo or other graphic you're posting somewhere.

I don't think this is going to be a plugin that I'll install everywhere, but with the right crowd, it could be functional and/or a lot of fun. I'm sure you know about Emoj.li, the all emoji social net launching in a few days. I think ACP could be fun on a group blog of designers to post palettes back and forth. Sort of like emoji for the design crowd.

TY!