Maybe your google is broken, but on mine, I get plenty of hits. If you do a view source on the page you'll see why it works, there's a static copy of the full text just for google to index. Try this search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+river5&...

I get all the hits in the first page. This is something that was just posted recently so you can see they're still indexing the site regularly.

Now the page rank might be hurt by the fact that Scripting News is http and they say that they're downgrading http sites. That's fine with me. The web is not owned by them, as far as I'm concerned. YMMV.