You're not only out of the loop, you're under a rock if you haven't even heard of Don Knuth before and you're in the computer science world at all. (I guess if you're just a humble web programmer ignorance is understandable.) His material is not for Ivy League students, it's for anyone interested in computer science itself rather than just programming. A "fascicle" is the book-form of a new episode in a television series' season, you learned a new word! (I guess only Ivy League students like learning new words? I'm not one but I like to learn new words.) It's part of the ongoing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAOCP You did understand "volume 4" I hope, which indicates there is a volume 1, 2, and 3. There are also other inferences you can make from the use of "volume" as opposed to another word (like "part").

For your assertion that it should link to a page describing what it is, I think you're wrong and I don't think you addressed my point about that being less efficient. Even in your case, I think it's more efficient this way. I don't think you would understand much in the submission without a lot of googling, and that's if you're even interested in understanding (which I doubt given your resistance to merely typing "define:fascicle" into Google) in the first place. A blog post describing the work would tell you as much, but since you didn't even understand the title, you already knew that you likely wouldn't understand the work. (Gods help you if you're on Windows and can't read PS files without downloading stuff from websites you've never visited.) An incomprehensible (to you) title saved you time. It's better for you this way. You did ruin your potential efficiency gains by spending time complaining about the submission type in the comments, much more time than it would take to google the parts of the title you didn't understand, but you knew that already when you ventured to the comments (which people seem to do regardless of the format of the content--I know I often get more out of the comments than the submission itself and sometimes will skip the submission entirely).

Edit: I will grant that there is an additional improvement to the title. Adding to the end "on Satisfiability". Which wouldn't help anyone not inclined to google but does at least say more specifically what it's about.