Inspired by Matthew Inman's "How to Make Square Corners with CSS", I hereby set out on a journey to reveal the one true technique to create coloured, non-gradient backgrounds for divs, paragraphs and other XHTML elements.  After literally seconds of painful research, I'll show you how to do this technique yourself.  Here's a sample of what you can expect to see.

To get it to work properly cross browser, you'll need to install prototype, scriptaculous, you'll need a server running Apache 3.14159 or higher, and...

oh hell, just go read his article, funny stuff...