Found a new jquery plugin: <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2007/10/15/humanized-messages-for-jquery/">
http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2007/10/15/humanized-messages-for-jquery/</a> From the authors blog: "(...) It's simply a large and translucent message that's displayed over the contents of your screen. (...)"