Thanks Dustin. If you don't mind sharing, it would be interesting to know what caused the outage.
Simply, and without too many details: the load balancer failed to work properly when one server in the cluster stopped responding, causing a cascade of errors which successively crashed all of the other servers (including, interestingly, the RDS database server -- which even Amazon was unable to explain).
the dcurt.is domain in your hn profile doesn't work either.
Don't you think that would be due to his blogging platform being down?