I'm beginning to think text-shadow is the new <blink>. Why on earth would you put a text-shadow on body text?

Not at all @wrs. I develop on a Mac, and in Chrome and FF 3.6 on Mac the text-shadow seems to help readability, but I just took a closer look on Windows and I can totally see how it is a distraction. (The font rendering and thus text-shadow rendering is quite different) I removed the text-shadow from the paragraphs and have updated the site.