I'm pretty sure that was intentional. Choices like that can sometimes keep a certain sort of person out of a budding community, and even though they are a localized pocket of worldsuck, may decrease worldsuck globally.
Yes it was! The font "papyrus" is only used in this page. Because Ava Gardner loved it :)
And I guess that it removes any interest in this work!
No, my interest was removed when I saw s-expressions.
Reminds me of John McCarthy's lament at the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML: "An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice." »