OKAY, BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT IS REALLY FLAKING OUT: I just tried to follow this link to the Weekly James and it took me to Ev Williams’ EvHead blog! God knows what it’ll do to you.

UPDATE: Now it’s producing a “Blogspot is down for maintenance” page. Supposedly it’ll be back up at about 10:30 Eastern, so you may want to adjust your surfing accordingly.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Paul Schmidt writes wondering if Blogspot was hacked:

I don’t know about the other blogspot hosted sites, but an attempt to

access Tim Blair or the Volokhs initiates a download of an executable

(presumably a trojan).

I don’t get that, but my system is set up to block such things routinely. You should beware of any site that wants you to download software unless you’re quite sure of the reason why. Just say no to unexplained downloads.

UPDATE UPDATE: Schmidt just emailed back:

It’s happening with Mozilla (my usual browser), but IE properly shows the

“down for maintenance” message. I don’t see anything in the page source

that should cause it, but then, I’m not a web guru. If it’s still happening

after it’s working in IE, I’ll notify the blogspot admin.

Stay tuned.

ONE MORE UPDATE: Hacking fears appear to be misplaced. One reader reports that there was a notice of scheduled maintenance up last night. And reader Stephen Commiskey reports:

The webserver is configured incorrectly; the “down for maintenance”

message is accidentally set to MIME type octet-stream (used for

binaries), when it should be set to something like text/HTML.

Mozilla users can, if they like, see the message by telling Mozilla to

open the “file” with Mozilla.

Or they can live without the thrill. As I write this, Blogspot is still down though it’s after 10:30.