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Same here, reminded me of this parody: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Too late. It has already become popular. These are "better" versions of it http://www.google.com/nexus/5/ , http://www.android.com/kitkat/ . I call it "powerpoint style design" and it has all the drawbacks of powerpoint slides (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint)... some stupidities just refuse to die.

I might give Zuck my bank credentials but I would have no trust whatsoever in some random .cc site (whose demo doesn't work).

yep, but it is open and you can self host your Cozy. So far you can't say the same of FB :-)

Jeebus. This.

ArE yOuR eYeS oVeRsTimUlAteD YET YET YETYET YET ETYET EYTYETYYETYYET???

Can't quite tell whether the horrendous load time on this link is the HN effect or part of the design. Probably the latter.

Parallax.