Not only that, it's such a processor hog it makes my MacBook Air fans whir at full volume.

I disabled JavaScript on the site, hoping that would make it behave, and got... no blog, only this:

> This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing dodgy, though, and nothing hosted at third-party sites. Just some jQuery and animation bits. So please, if you'd be so kind, ask Noscript to call off the hounds.

Congratulations, those “animation bits”, which you won't let me turn off, make your site unbearably annoying to read.

> which you won't let me turn off

In the lower right corner of the site there is the word "normal". Hover over this area and select "stop animation" from the menu that appears.

(Not that this excuses any of it. Just saying it's possible.)

Ahahaha. Hover. On a tablet.

(Didn't see any controls whatsoever, but that site happily slowed my FF to a crouch)

And that ignores the issue of argueing for more fidelity while making the argument hard to read.

I'm actually having a hard time keeping my eyes on the text. It's almost sickening trying to focus.

I hope this developer isn't making content on real websites.

You are not the only one. I couldn't keep my eye focus on the text due to the rotating background, and closed the website after reading the first two paragraphs.

It also lags down scrolling.

On the iPad it even blinks when scrolling. Though, it's a cool design.

Thanks for saying so, though I will admit I don't actually own an iPad and never tested the design there. Apologies to iPad users.

I aim to detect mobile browsers and just disable the background by default on mobile. (Incidentally, on the client side, is using Modernizr's "touch" flag a best practice here? I'm something of a noob.)

And it makes the fans on my rMBP go nuts