To add to it, the issue is about purpose. There's nothing wrong with an application that needs JavaScript because it can't function without it. My day job is one such application, and I've written others as side-projects (anything that does calculations without a server-side component is an instance).
But this presentation is just a bunch of text with navigation. This is what the web was written for, and it should work no matter whether you have CSS or JavaScript on, and it should use progressive enhancement to add on the useful features. That means using hyperlinks for navigation and CSS that doesn't hide all the content until your JS loads (which seems to be the problem with Chrome. The page actually is readable in Lynx).
But this presentation is just a bunch of text with navigation. This is what the web was written for, and it should work no matter whether you have CSS or JavaScript on, and it should use progressive enhancement to add on the useful features. That means using hyperlinks for navigation and CSS that doesn't hide all the content until your JS loads (which seems to be the problem with Chrome. The page actually is readable in Lynx).