Programmer Challenge: Stop the Blinking Ads: "You know what drives me absolutely nutty?
Blinking things on a Web page.
Animations and blinky ads make it extremely difficult to read. What part of ‘Don’t make your potential customers hate you’ don’t the advertisers understand?
Anyway, here’s my challenge to the programmers of the world: come up with a simple browser add-on that will simply [...]"
Pogue's Posts - http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com