It's ironic that an article about the awfulness of js on the modern web is rendered unreadable by javascript and/or flash: http://imgur.com/8Iikyd7. The page literally crashed my browser on first view.
The difference between what happens when I turn off all my blockers(http://imgur.com/yNnP3km) and when I just turn off JS(http://imgur.com/cPSi5qq) is pretty dramatic. It looks like most of the load is advertising according to Disconnect.