Ack! I saw a popup!

I knew this was coming, but it startled me none the less. I haven't seen a popup in about three years (unless I accidently mashed cmd-K in Safari which happens from time to time as I pound the keyboard bouncing around my little world).

I'd followed a link a friend sent me to Wired (ostensibly to read Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead) when up popped an old dead dragon, long ago slayed but risen again wearing new clothes.

I guess you'd call it an in window popup, but the idea and annoyance were the same. A slab in the middle of the browser window was obscured by an ad for Microsoft Office for Mac. I had to click (click? who clicks? where the heck is that mouse anyway!) to make it go away.

Here we go again.

I don't want to go back to the luddite ways of turning JavaScript (or whatever demon is feeding this pest) off, but I will if I must. This really sucks.