I actually had to put this in a ticket

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

From the logs:
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Internet traffic yesterday was impacted by online coverage of Michael Jackson's funeral.
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Did my best to avoid the circus, and got bit anyway. Dammit.

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

Sadly, that would actually explain a slowdown I had yesterday.

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

Even in death, the man molests the world.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

i live near blocks away from all this shit and at most i can attest to is that there was very little traffic on the freeway.

[devilish69angel.livejournal.com]

nicely played.....lmao!

[commanderd.livejournal.com]

I'm in the UK and even we had the network slow to a crawl as people hit the news sites to find out more about it.

That wasn't the killer though - that came about from the hammering the Exchange servers got when people started sending around the jokes..