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.

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.

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

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.