Free advice for Boston.com
Quick suggestion: if you want to be "My Boston," be more like tampabay.com, the joint web venture of the St. Petersburg Times (a fine paper!) and Tampa Bay Times.
Which means? Getting rid of crap like this, and giving us this. Or this. Or this. And it's all right there on the main page--just scroll down a bit!
I'm going to go use the internet now.