I posted a GreaseMonkey user script at the root of this site. It suppresses the pesky floating ads, aka SmartAds, that overlay the text of Le Figaro articles. This is my second GreaseMonkey script, the first one was written in order to remove post by a certain annoying guest blogger at Marmot’s, which has since moved here.

Useless for 99% of the people reading me blogs, but here goes

UPDATE
I wrote a new version that seems to work better. Ads show up for less than a second – depending on your machine’s speed – and then, poof! all gone.

Safari now has a tag, a proprietary HTML extension that allows Quartz-style drawing from JavaScript. It was created for Dashboard widgets.

If you specify a canvas width ≤ 54 and a height ≤ 71, Safari appears to use an uninitialized pointer to render the canvas, displaying raw memory as bitmaps.

Here’s an example. rentzsch.com

Only “works” on Safari, of course…