Adblock is the shit. It’s a Firefox add-on. It lets you block images, iframes or flash in web pages based on the source. I’d totally recommend running it. At first I didn’t get it (for 2 seconds), as I thought It’d automatically block ads. But then I found that you have to build your own database of ads.

So I took 5 minutes, went to my daily reads, right clicked on the ads and blocked them down to the root, i.e.,

This: http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/800/14845/1187986648/oasc04.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/BusWeek/AMD_63019_ros_300_geo/AMD_PeoplePower_300×250.swf?clickTAG=http://oascentral.businessweek.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/businessweek.com/home/143853630/Right2/BusWeek/AMD_63019_ros_300_geo/AMD_63019_ros_300×250_geo.html/34353536653630383436643036646630?http://breakfree.amd.com/people/?sa%20_campaign=media/breakfree/busweek/crmain

Becomes this:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/* (Edit: be careful about blocking Akamai content, they deliver good and bad. Probably more good than bad.)

I stamped out annoying flash ads (press ctrl-F, and then click on the beige overlay), silly google adsense text ads and even that Washlets ad (NSFW maybe, seeing butt doesn’t make me want to wash butt…oh btw, watch the video with the Asian woman: Washlet is “an opportunity to pamper yourself” [your butthole]).

You can also block non-advertising content, say for instance someone’s ugly profile pic on Facebook or all those annoying badges on TechCrunch. Whenever I come across a new ad, I love stamping it out. Yep. I’d definitely recommend it.

Below, from the NY Transit Museum. A detailed model of how a hydrogen fuel cell works. For homie Daivd who 1) shared a video with me and 2) works on hydrogen fuel cell buses.