I'm thinking this might be a really serious bug in the way it loads thumbs from Flickr.  I'm going to try and copy what is being loaded below on initial page load testing by Pingdom Tools, and this is with it set to show no thumbs at all.  There are hundreds of request being made to Flickr for thumbs. 

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