Hurt, but not defeated, the humongous giant clam....
Wait. Wrong story. Actually Science-Based Medicine is back. Finally. Go. Read. Enjoy. Particularly a bit about crank conferences.
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Category: Announcements • Blogging • Medicine • Science
Posted on: September 24, 2009 1:00 AM, by Orac
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nice!
why not add a lovely giant clam illustration to that post? they're so gorgeous!
http://www.scooldivers.com/images/sites/critters/giant-clam.jpg
(not vouching for copyright on that, just one i liked) :)
Posted by: luna1580 | September 24, 2009 1:27 AM
Are you sure it's stable?
All I get is:
"A communication error occurred: The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time."
Posted by: Lilith | September 24, 2009 6:38 AM
I'm having trouble too. I was able to reach it up until about ten minutes ago, but no more, sadly.
Posted by: LW | September 24, 2009 6:40 AM
Well if it is back, it isn't for me.
Posted by: Danimal | September 24, 2009 6:40 AM
Down again, worked 2 hours before. Now I'm really suspecting a DoS-Attack.
Posted by: Eike Scholz | September 24, 2009 6:43 AM
I can't get into it either. :(
Posted by: Dawn | September 24, 2009 7:19 AM
Works for me ATM - nice and snappy, too!
Posted by: Scott | September 24, 2009 8:50 AM
Working for me. Yay!
Posted by: Todd W. | September 24, 2009 8:54 AM
Yay! I can get into SBM and get my fix. Oh...and read what your "friend" has to say. :)
Posted by: Dawn | September 24, 2009 9:51 AM
I get an error every time I try from host pops
"This Account Has Been Suspended."
Posted by: Malk | September 24, 2009 12:34 PM
Sorry to report this, but it's gone again!
Posted by: geekdiva | September 24, 2009 1:18 PM
Seems to still be okay for me. Have you guys tried clearing your cache/temp files?
Posted by: Todd W. | September 24, 2009 1:23 PM
It worked fine in Firefox, though for Internet Explorer 8 I had to clear the cache, history and then just delete if from the Favorites list... and then add it back into Favorites.
What also worked was just typing the URL in my hand.
Posted by: Chris | September 24, 2009 2:00 PM
Wow, Chris, if you type the URL in your hand, your computer goes to the right site? What a fabulous connection you must have! (Just kidding. I know what you meant.)
Posted by: Dawn | September 24, 2009 2:42 PM
Since the Science-Based Medicine web server is now being hosted by a new service, it will have a new IP address. It takes a (short) while for that new address to propagate to all the Domain Name Servers (DNS) in the internet, including that of one's personal internet provider, that a web browser uses to find web pages. Until the address is updated at the DNS of one's internet provider, you will continue to be directed to the old location, and the error message there. It is possible to replace whatever default DNS you use with a third party DNS, which may have other benefits. I use OpenDNS, which already had the new SBM address late last night my time, which thus enabled me to reach the site already then.
Posted by: Art Tricque | September 24, 2009 5:19 PM
PS I wonder why you are suggesting we view that article, Orac? ;-)
Posted by: Art Tricque | September 24, 2009 5:22 PM
Dawn, I realized later what happened. When they switched to that server it was having trouble switching, so I used the odd number address (DNS?) that worked for that time and set it in favorites.
The problem was I was going directly to the wrong DNS. sigh
It was a stupid user problem.
Posted by: Chris | September 24, 2009 5:47 PM
So what those of us with crappy ISPs need is someone to post the numerical value of the new URL. (do I have that right?)
Posted by: daedalus2u | September 24, 2009 7:43 PM
I found it, and it works
http://72.47.235.241/
Posted by: daedalus2u | September 24, 2009 7:50 PM
Not sure if this is a temporary issue or not, but SBM appears to be down again. Got a "failed to connect" error.
Posted by: Todd W. | September 25, 2009 12:52 PM