the corner office

I saw an interesting headline on an Evening Standard billboard this evening, so when I got home I thought I'd hop onto the newspaper's website and read it. Except that after opening the article's web page, my CPU monitor started showing that one of the CPU cores was maxed out, and the CPU fan started going into overdrive. I've got Flashblock installed so it wasn't even the usual Flash sludge causing the problem. Some JavaScript madness, presumably?

Whatever it was, it's crazy that I can't open a web page without it killing my PC. My laptop is getting old, but not that old. I won't go to the Evening Standard's site again, but the problem is, many other news sites aren't much different. Stop the madness, web developers.