Chris, I have no idea idea what happened when you visited the link. Crunchgear is a well-known blog on mostly technology. I just hit it again with Chrome, firefox, firefox with adblock disabled, and IE7 and nothing unusual. They are a little pic heavy in the right column without adblock active, simialar to the newest images column on ETS but more of them, trying to get you read other articles.

Only thing I could think of is someone might have sneaked a nasty add via one of the adservers pushing the advertisements.

-Tommy