We told you about the one-second adjustment to the world's clocks that brought our measurements in line with the actual rotation of the earth. That was last night, about 8PM EDT. And although it has happened before, and there were warnings, not every website was ready for a temporal disruption that caused older Linux-based systems to crash.

The Pirate Bay was affected.

So was Twitter.

Other sites that went down were Reddit, Gawker media sites, StumbleUpon, Yelp, FourSquare, LinkedIn, and Meetup.

Strangely, Fark was down, but it was a planned outage to move equipment. It just coincided with the leap second crash.

Most of the websites that were affected are back up, or will be soon.

(Image credit: Flickr user Alan Cleaver)