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By Owen Thomas, 6:40 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008, 417 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The website of the New York Times is unresponsive beyond an archaic "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" error. We didn't even have to check the site — we could have gathered as much from the frantic IMs being sent by the same Internet poseurs who like to blog about how the mainstream media is irrelevant to their lives.

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