All Iraq, all the time

According to Web site www.lostremote.com, former CNN news chief Eason Jordan is launching a new site called www.IraqSlogger.com, named after Donald Rumsfeld’s reference to how the war is a “long, hard slog.” The site aggregates Iraq coverage around the world, and it even provides translated accounts from Iraqi newspapers. He explains, “(The site) grew out of the feeling that I think many people shared that there was no one place to go. Individual news organizations do terrific work, but you can spend the better part of a day going from one site to another and one TV outlet to another,” searching for a full picture.

Killer color is Kuler

Need a killer color theme for your Web site, art project or magazine pages? Head to Adobe Kuler, an interactive Web-based app that whips up snazzy themes in a matter of seconds.

Kuler (not sure if it rhymes with “color” or “cooler”) lets you browse other users’ themes or create your own using a drag-and-drop color wheel and/or numerical settings (RGB, CMYK, etc.). You can title, tag, save and publish your themes, and download them as Adobe Swatch Exchange files for use in Creative Suite 2 applications (like Photoshop).

This is one slick tool, equal parts fun and practical. It’s free for now (and in beta); hopefully Adobe will see fit to keep it that way.

Find Adobe Kuler at http://kuler.adobe.com/.

Wishing you geese and soy

Now that you’ve been bombarded with Christmas carols for 25 straight days — perhaps more if you’re one of those who launches into the season the day after Thanksgiving — you ought to ace this test. Visit www.chicagotribune.com/ carolquiz,0,4932856.triviaquiz to test your knowledge of Christmas carols.