Citizens are urged to remain calm…
kate@uptime:~$ ping financialstability.gov
PING financialstability.gov (66.77.70.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
— financialstability.gov ping statistics —
108 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 107015ms
h/t
Update: Financialstability.gov is back and a nation dares to breathe again…

heh. Perfect description of the Obama ‘White House Financial Stability Web Page’. Perfect. I particularly liked the ‘cannot display the web page’ statement.
In other news:
Could not find host accountability.gov. Please check the name and try again.
p.s. Many sites now block ping requests 😉
Hmmm…
Linux box running the BASH shell. Named Uptime.
What’s the domain?
I’d tell you but then my sysadmins would have to kill you.
A nit to pick – According to the Hoffpo write-up in the main link, “The two states left out: Montana and New Mexico.”
Errr…actually it’s Montana and Vermont, but I guess Vermont and New Mexico are easy to confuse.
MAybe California should set up their own version of this website – people could go there to download their IOU’s.
reminds me of the old Carol Burnette show skit: the airline pilot goes on the announcment speakers firmly declaring: “there is no cause for alarm !”
So …………does this mean that the huffypoof is now the offical media oragn of the 0-bama white house?
That’s gotta sting in the tingly pants.
—- ORGAN —–
Hillarious.
“spy agency had implicated North Korea or pro-North Korea groups.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/09cyber.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
See if you can get what’s left of Hans Brix out of the shark tank while your at it.