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The background is a seamless texture. A google search with those for keywords will bring you a bunch of info. A quick tutorial for creating your own: http://pegaweb.com/tutorials/web-page-backgrounds/web-page-b...

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I know about seamless textures. I'm asking about that specific granular type of texture. Does it have a name? I could have sworn someone on HN made a generator for these things just a few days ago.

Photoshop has it. Not sure what they are called though. Are you looking for this: http://noisegen.krisnoble.co.uk/ ?

Wasn't that site, but similar. Thanks though, this is good enough.

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