His incredible 52 Assistants show is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jljt5Ml28FU
The eye-opening and amazing part is the unrelenting practice, preparation, and study time Ricky Jay (and others in the documentary) have committed to the art.
Beautiful and inspiring to see that effort from people.
I bet if you disallow images the site renders poorly, too.
Maybe disallow the letter "e" and see what happens.
If all websites that don't really need javascript for anything but bling that makes marketeers happy and users miserable got rid of it tomorrow, worldwide, I wonder how many coal power plants could be shut down?
There is one way to find out, and one step to get there is to not put up with this nonsense anymore. Driving a car with the handbrakes on to get a pack of cigarettes is not modern, not progress, not sophisticated, and not exactly dignified either.
Why is javascript "critical" here? It's really critical, as in there's no other way to go from viewing one set of text to another set of text on a page without javascript?
This site cannot be reproduced without images or the letter "e". It can be reproduced without javascript. Trivially.
I'd think things would go similarly with Javascript. :-) If you don't want AJAX and local tasks such as validation, you can still construct practical stuff without it.
(Most of my oral discussions with folks work practically without using Javascript... I'm not as optimistic about my browsing, though!)
"Good job! I sought to say what I thought about your post in a similar fashion, but I found it wasn't as straightforward in actuality as it was in my anticipation."
This constraint is not what you could call most hard of all constraints that folks can comply with in writing. Many moons ago, I had many chats with a smart woman (an IT industry analyst, nowadays a VC!) using only four-symbol words (words just as long, or just as short, as "full" and "with"). All right, it wasn't always an option for us to comply fully with standard grammar; a substantial fraction of our writing did consist of partial phrasings (lacking a noun, or lacking an additional pars orationis, as folks would say in Latin -- say, "good work" and not "that's a good job"). Still, that woman and I could chat for a fairly long duration in this fashion, about a surprisingly broad array of topics.
I wish I had logs of our chats now, inasmuch as that constraint is fairly hard... I do think I said "Good Airs" in such a chat as a way of naming a capital city of a country south of Brazil. But much that I said is hard to think of now.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Disparition-French-Language-Georges-Pe...
[1] http://www.amazon.it/Allalba-Shahrazad-ammazzata-Giuseppe-Va...
Also, at MIT's annual January puzzling match, I had fun solving this most-common-thousand-words thing (it has a list of cool stuff that you can study at MIT if you want to know how to build flying things... but all in most-common-thousand-words-only fashion).
http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/enigmavalley.com/you_will_no...
Its solution is at
http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/enigmavalley.com/you_will_no...
I thought it was a Hunt classic and did honor to xkcd too.
Also, I don't appreciate the sarcastic tone of your comment. It's not necessary and I can see by the comments below that you are wrong and out of line.
It was then translated in to English as "A Void", also without using the letter "e".