It appears that the box which hosts some B.org sites, includuding this one, has been linked to from Slashdot. This means that, as of this writing, zillions of crazed linux geeks are swarming the servers around B.org. So if you're experiancing any slowness or connection failures, that's why. But don't worry, Claude tells me it usually only lasts a day or so, so if you can wait out the bad whether things should be back to normal soon.