Someone should put boston.com out of its misery. How is it possible that the New York Times has not yet laid off every employee at boston.com, and replaced it with a clean and functional website -- like nytimes.com -- without all the annoying popups and animated ads.

At a minimum, boston.com should just use Google AdSense for relevant text ads, and then just publish Boston Globe stories. The site then might become usable. (And boston.com could probably do a staff reduction since they would not need a team to manage the annoying online ads.)

Just now I had to go to boston.com for the first time in months -- to lookup a death notice. Boston.com can't even get this right -- see the layout of the screen here.¶2:03 PM