For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

You should really try readability:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Wow. I didn't know this existed. You sir have made my life better today. Thank you.

Or Opera's builtin accessibility layout.

Or Instapaper. I can't read on most news sites anymore for all the crap they put on there.

Or the Reader feature in Safari.

I love this. Thank you.

It's the disqus real time update feature - click Pause below the comments box.

Why should I have to pause the comment auto-updater just so that I can finish reading the article?

Yeah, at first I thought it was Chrome's AutoPager plugin, but even after I disabled it, same thing happened. I had to resort to the print-friendly view.

I had the same problem and then I switched on Safari's Reader feature -- problem solved.

Same, I was holding the scrollbar with my mouse's left button down to prevent that!

Yeah, I thought I was dreaming at first like I was on some spam site that was trying to take me to the ad. As far as the article goes, very interesting to get into the psyche of someone whose blogs we read on a continuous basis. Whether you love him or hate him, humanizing people always helps break the online barrier.

Yes-- that was another annoying thing that I didn't mention.

Same here. Hence, I read the 'printer friendly' piece instead: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-...

I launched Safari and used its Reader feature.

Pop-up? Toolbar?

People laugh at me when I say that I disable Javascript and only enable when I absolutely need it. Thanks for letting me laugh back. :-P

The toolbar was so bad that I turned No-Script back on. I had given Javascript the benefit of the doubt, but sites like that ruin it for me.

"The interstitial pop-up"

Surely you meant the "intermittent" pop-up.

No. I meant interstitial:

Interstitials - On the World Wide Web, interstitials are web page advertisements that are displayed before or after an expected content page, often to display advertisements or confirm the user's age. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitials

Aha! Consider me educated. -1 for a stupid question is perfectly justified.

(I naively assumed you used "interstitial" to mean "occupying an intervening space," which would not have made sense.)