Why Black?

Why do my pages have a black background? 3 reasons:

Black compliments my graphics demos better.
Large bright areas give me headaches during late night machine missions.
I'm not using black to make political or religious statements. :)

Some people liken black backgrounds to being dark, subversive, or somehow "against society", but I don't see any difference between black and white for backgrounds. See, for my printing artwork, I don't use black. My theory is, since computer CRTs implement an additive color model, the best way for me to have good color contrast is by using red, green and blue as primaries against a dark canvas. For my printing demos, I stay with cyan, magenta and yellow for primaries and use a light canvas to stay with a subtractive model.

In other words, I'm making the statement "I like it, and I'm not making any statement." :) [triangles of red, green & blue - a very old QBasic stunt I later wrote into an MS windows screen saver when teaching myself the MS Windows API]