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At the end of every episode, they say, “Tell Your Friends”.

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Once again, someone has got a whole load of sand in their vagina and tried to shut down The Pirate Bay. I’m (on the whole) against file sharing, but trying to ‘shut down’ a website like TPB it just futile. Here’s a quick quote from The Guardian to explain the situation:

The Pirate Bay has (briefly) vanished beneath the internet waves again, after several Hollywood film studios won an injunction against its bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg.

The injunction (which Torrentfreak says was granted without an oral hearing) prohibited CB3ROB from “connecting The Pirate Bay website and its servers to the internet.

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If you go to adobe’s website for CS5, and hover over the DreamWeaver section, you’ll see the flower expand, revealing browser logos on the petals. You’ll see Internet Explorer’s logo, FireFox’s logo and Chrome’s logo, but mysteriously missing are Safari (Apple’s native browser) and Opera’s (another vocal advocate of web standards) respective logos.

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You’ve spent some time on the internet, and have maybe noticed some of the super-cool illustrations and wallpapers out there. Now, you want to have a go at doing it your self. Here’s a simple 3 part guide to doing it.

1). Find a nice inspirational quote about graphic design. A good place to start is Chris Coyier’s excellent Quotes On Design. It’s brimming with just the sort of thing you need. For this tutorial, I will be using “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” You can use anything though. (more…)