Hot on the heels of the Panic boys' discovery that their graphics were being purloined and used on other sites without their permission comes my discovery that the Donate via PayPal button graphic you'll find on this site's Tutorials page has been nicked by a Mac consultancy company which shall for the moment remain nameless. (I ain't stopping you Googling the text shown above, mind you.)

I just happened across the site randomly – the graphic isn't being referenced from my servers – and sent the company a little note congratulating them on their support for the Mac community, but pointing out that nicking a graphic I created without asking permission is at best a little unprofessional. I have yet to receive a reply – I'd hate to be a customer in urgent need of assistance.

If they'd asked me, I'd have said go right ahead, with my blessing, but I hadn't released the graphic under Creative Commons or any other GNU licence, and it's a little cheeky just to lift it verbatim. Am I being too much of a Western-capitalist-consumery square?

In other news, having been paid on Friday, the young lady and I breakfasted at Carluccio's this morning – mmm! – and I bought myself a new wallet to replace the one which had been inadvertently chucking in the bin alongside the remains of a sweet and sour king prawn. We wandered around the deserted and very pretty marina complex at Canary Wharf, taking some photographs, before ducking into the UGC there to watch X-Men 3.

Finally, if you're looking to waste a little more time on the web, check out the highest viaduct ever built; details on designing information systems to keep people away from nuclear dump sites; a design for a dog bowl to stop your mutt from, pardon the pun, wolfing down his food; what happens to salt grains when you vibrate the table they're on at various frequencies; the review of a restaurant recommended to me by Ruth; and finally, this most adorable picture on a cat on an iBook, taken from the Cats love Macs Flickr pool.