Apparently someone posted a comment on Groklaw that referred to this comic, which prompted a lot of people to come over here and take a look, which prompted the database to slow down, time out, and then crash. I had to reboot the server.
Not that I’m complaining. Please feel free to recommend, link to and visit this site so often that I need to upgrade the server. That’s the kind of trouble I like.
Everything seems to be running normally now…