Website administrators fear the slashdot effect (“slashdotting” / “being slashdotted”) — now slashdot.org, “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”,  is down itself. Here is a screen shot:

Unclear what “Guru Meditation” refers to, but in case you’re wondering, the Varnish link generated by the slashdot web server goes to http://www.varnish-cache.org. Which takes you to http://varnish.projects.linpro.no, which says,

Welcome to the Varnish project
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator

(The slashdot site was working again an hour later)