diff --git a/pastebin/templates/about.html b/pastebin/templates/about.html
index 956a851..93e126e 100644
--- a/pastebin/templates/about.html
+++ b/pastebin/templates/about.html
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ import sys
 def paste_code():
     request = urllib2.Request(
         'http://dpaste.de/api/',
-        urllib.urlencode([('content', ''.join(sys.stdin.readlines()))]),
+        urllib.urlencode([('content', sys.stdin.read())]),
     )
     response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+    # Strip surrounding quotes (NB: response has no trailing newline)
     print response.read()[1:-1]
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
@@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 <p>Save this script in <code>/usr/local/bin/dpaste</code> and <code>chmod +x ..filepath</code>.</p>
 <p>Usage: <code>cat foo.txt | dpaste</code></p>
+
+<p>Or you could use <code>curl</code>:
+<code>alias dpaste="curl -F 'content=&lt;-' http://dpaste.de/api/</code></p>
+
 {% endblock %}