I agree that Flash is awful. But there are two different arguments here:
1) Flash is awful
2) Flash is the _only_ contributor to power drain so lets vilify it, and let's ignore HTML5 ads for now. (this was DaringFireball's implication)
The article does a wonderful job of demonstrating a very near future where John Gruber's Macbook will have 2 hours of battery life thanks to spinning gerbil HTML5 ads.
Again, I'm all for disabling Flash, but DF's constant championing of HTML5 as a panacea for all of Flash's forthcomings needs to be stopped (it's becoming a religion).
If anything, this article encourages a more constructive discussion than the trolling DF does.
AOL's Techcrunch claims that AOL's competitor Yahoo is performing poorly and may lay off people.
(as an aside, TC's amazing ability at tanking Yahoo's stock price makes buying Techcrunch a really smart move by AOL)