[tuatoru]

I have no idea what that might be about, except that it's by the "Roots of Progress" guy.

All firefox shows is a big grey rectangle with a URL at the top of it. Clicking the URL takes me to something that is a long column in the centre of the page, in 2-point type and one centimetre wide.

Some whitespace is good, but you can have too much of a good thing.

[hilbert42]

Similar problem here (viewed on Android). Initially, a blank page until I turned on JavaScript and refreshed the page - then after some considerable delay the page eventually rendered OK.

(Normally, I view the web with JS off to speed up pages, stop ads and reduce the amount of spying and my usual reaction to sites that play these silly irritating games is to get off them ASAP. Turning on JS here was an exception as the title posed the article as being of more interest than most, which was in fact the case.)