No Popups!

Sun June 26, 2005
From Eric S. Raymond's HTML Hell Page: http://www.catb.org/~esr/html-hell.html
Pop-up windows
Some particularly irritating designers have discovered the magic formula that causes your browser to spawn a new window when you click on a link — or worse, ways to make pop-up windows appear even if all all you're trying to do is exit their wretched hive of scum and villainy as rapidly as you can find the Back button. ... (see the link above for more)

(It was the "wretched hive of scum and villainy" bit that made me laugh really hard)