The Internet broke
If you've had trouble getting your morning Valleywag fix, I'd like to proudly pass the buck to Network Solutions, who suffered an outage.
Incidentally, no, you're not the only one who had AIM problems today. They must be busy swapping the office signs.
And Gmail's churning out errors; to its credit, the user level is still nearly doubling every month, so relax, go make some coffee, and let that jerk from Marketing wait a few more minutes for your e-mail.