06-19-2006, 09:10 AM
Quote:Does this sound familiar? You type an Internet address and suddenly your browser is frozen and American Express drops a curtain over the text you are reading. Twice. Or a giant Papa John's pizza slowly floats across your screen, like an edible blimp. Or a foot stomps into view, with the words "Power to Your Feet" under its Nike sole.
The Web huge swaths of it, anyway has been turned into a maddening dodge 'em course of blinking banners and gaudy animation. The cursor has become the new fly swatter, the "close" button our national mosquito...
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