For those that haven't been able to access "Braintalk" (AKA hasty-pastry) today:

The BrainTalk.org domain is a separate issue from what's happening over there today.

John Lester let the BrainTalk.org domain go about a year ago. That's when he started using the hastypastry.net domain (that's run out of hacker's den in Boston).

I can't swear, but, I think it's unavailable today due to maintenance. I wrote John Lester a couple of days ago and told him that the bot 'Yahoo! Slurp Spider' was running out of control. I have a 'feeling that he might be taking care of that now.

Barb