As far as I know,
from the 'people' I know that frequent it, it's suffering a sustained DDoS.
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Thinker,
Tue 22 Jul 2008, 16:40,
archived)
Apparently so:
"The site is still down due to an ongoing DDoS attack.
Remember kids: DDoS is cruise control for cool."
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Ttssattsr,
Tue 22 Jul 2008, 16:45,
archived)