Building a static site generator is always a good learning exercise.

US and Canada

Yes but doing this keep x running in the background, wich might not be power efficient, remember that this is what he is trying to achieve.

Just stop X, easy. Or don't even start it in the first place

Use Mutt or Alpine for email

Could you send a signal to pause X so that it doesn't cause wakeups?

I think censorship is a bit of a strong word.

It loads content as you scroll down the page.

As far as I can see, it also removes invisible "pages" of content(i.e. stuff you saw and you are about to see) from DOM to decrease the load on renderer

I find that using good aliases for common git command is quite useful. Here are my gitconfig to show some examples. https://github.com/alexcp/gitconfig/blob/master/.gitconfig

I think you could improve the site dramatically by using a more readable font.

I have the same problem, I'm using Chrome. It might be related to linux.

This website http://domai.nr help finding such domain names.

I am pretty sure you don't need to install jekyll on your computer, github will compile the files for you when you push.

*Of course you wouldn't be able to test localy so it might not be a good idea.