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and they still haven't removed that cursed gears intro whenever I visit the page. Hello Flash homepage intros!

Indeed. This is one of the most unreadable pages I came across in a while. The sidebar also creates a ton of problems. It interferes with my navigation habbits. When I use the cursor keys to move around, suddenly some other page loads.

Also unreadable without JS.

The mobile version works though.

I tried it on an iPad just to see the difference and I encountered strange scrolling problems.

Pull it from Google cache.

(I hate this category of Blogspot templates...)

Well, perhaps I was downvoted for "hating" those templates. I really, really dislike them.

As for the JS dependency, when I want to read an item published under such a template, I view the Google cache copy. It loads up just fine without JS -- or I'm forgetting that, foolish me, I have google.com whitelisted.

Not sure about one's satisfaction with this on mobile, but it would be worth a shot.

Nor do they want us to use CMD-[left arrow] to navigate backwards through our browser history.

And no space bar for scrolling, so annoying.