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Turn off Javascript for the page. Everything loads instantly, no more animation.

The amount of work that went into making this pretty-good layout unreadable is insane.

Thanks, that is a huge improvement. There is still a large amount of completely useless whitespace, I guess that is there to enable the obnoxious animation malarkey...

This site should be used in schools to teach future web developers what not to make.

Not sure if I'm particularly lucky with my PC, but everything is smooth and nice and I really enjoyed the effects on this page, and I appreciate their effort to use more modern technique than a plain static article.

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