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Wow, that Goblinscomic guy fails at web design 101.

There's a huge black graphical bar in the background with black text that males the left inch of that paragraph unreadable.

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Possibly your adblocker is overambitious? I'm mobile right now but it's working in current Firefox, Dolphin and Chrome on Android. Black area is the background for a left side vertical ad, but even with Bluhell Firewall blocking in Firefox the layout is fine.

I'm on Conkeror (basically Firefox) with Adblock. It looks like (to me) that the text doesn't line up with the background image, causing some of the text to instead cover that black bar. Seems odd; you'd think the text and the background would be part of the same div or whatever.

I'm going to say this is definitely an Adblock Plus rules problem. I'm not using it in Firefox (no need with NoScript and RequestPolicy), but I do have the adblockplus.org version in Chrome and get the problem there. Disabling Adblock Plus for the site fixes the display.

I'm not going to dig into it, but I suspect that it's a case of floated divs and Adblock Plus is removing not just the ad or its iframe but the entire div that it's in, thus allowing everything else to move left.

It works fine for me in Conkeror with no AdBlock.

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