Another current ugliness is a classmates.com floating ad (interactive map of United States), above the BA Blog content. I was trying to copy and paste some text from
Eggs, bacon, sausage, and spam -- in fact, the title as a label for that link -- and part of the text was under the ad, and when I tried to highlight the entire text, the ad expanded whenever the cursor came near it, so I couldn't see at all what I was doing. Grr...