Syria was offline a few days ago, and when they came back, Network Solutions seized a bunch of domains from there. But I haven't heard of anything global.
More people, applications, services and sites are getting online without significant underlying infrastructure upgrades.
Everyone's switched to TalkTalk?
Can't say I've been hearing that myself. Seems fine to me. Reset your router? :P
Yeah.. It's not just my office internet, my home, A webservice in the UK I use, some US web services. Gmail has been choppy recently.