and then forget to re-enable it and be baffled as to why their browser is utterly deprecated.

and wonder what makes the few well-designed websites that don't need javascript to be read that special

... or so I can dream.

The internet isn't a static thing, these days. You can get by without js, but you can't do much in the way of interesting dynamic content

A lot of sites these days seem to be skipping right over the "interesting" part and going straight to the static/dynamic distinction.

Well with the direction CSS is taking, Javascript isn't only for 'cool and moving things' anymore. I use Cufon for fonts, since it's better and cleaner than font-face.

Not people that are targeted by this blackout.