Well, I can at least see where they are coming from in limited circumstances. For instance, recently I had to decontaminate H.I.V.E (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) which had way too many fonts and images (and backads, G-d help me), but it also had some headings which used some angular font or other (same as in the pbook) that was supposed to tie in with the computers theme.
They were also using some special font and demented CSS to make a weird colored panel for the Author Bio.
