Redesigning a web site, especially one with as many eyeballs as CBC.ca gets, isn’t easy. You’ll never please all the people all the time. And while most reviews of the latest redesign have been positive, one bone of contention heard is about the weather-box in the upper-left corner. Presumably the designers wanted something there to balance out the ad.

Now, an anonymous Vancouver programmer (not me!) has developed a tool to remove it from the site — well, to remove your ability to see it.

Some people using the Firefox web browser can download an extension to block advertising which, on the CBC site, makes the weather box hang in mid-air taking up valuable screen real estate.

The weather-box blocker is being promoted in Usenet newsgroups and on the popular social-news web site Digg.com.

Download the ad PDF here.