Problem loading images on Cultofmac.com in Safari and Chrome
Someone at work Suggested I change my DNS servers to openDNS and see if that resolves the problem.

As it may be that the DNS server from my provider is what is slowing down the page load due to the cross domain calls.

I just tried googles 8.8.8.8 and  8.8.4.4  DNS servers.

It turns out that this is indeed the case.
The images load as one would expect. And changing back to the IP's DNS the Problem reoccurs.

But I do not really want to change my DNS servers. So will be asking a separate question related to this.