Site Title Appearing Twice on Mouseover / Removing Hover Titles?

For the first part, is this a function of the header? I’m using a Child Theme and Custom CSS to make it confusing, but in the parent theme I believe I would have to alter this block of code:

<title><?php
	/*
	 * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
	 */
	global $page, $paged;

	wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

	// Add the blog name.
	bloginfo( 'name' );

	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";

	// Add a page number if necessary:
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'spun' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

	?></title>

For others who are curious, that was indeed the block. It created some sort of redundancy. I removed the following chunk:

// Add the blog name.
	bloginfo( 'name' );

	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";

	// Add a page number if necessary:
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'spun' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

…then saved the header.php file and uploaded it to my child theme and the duplication in tabs is gone!

Still can’t figure out how to eliminate hovering text when mousing-over the circles, however…

I spent a monster amount of time in my child theme’s version of content-home.php, hoping that would be the place to remove the floating text boxes, but to no avail. Has anyone had any success removing mouseover floating titles from Spun? I’ve never seen a page where anyone has removed them…

Success! If anyone wants to do this on their blog, I would install the “Use Google Libraries” plugin; then add this jQuery to your footer.php before </body>:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery('document').ready(function($){
	$('[title]').removeAttr('title');
});
</script>

So awesome.