UPDATE: The site is back up. The solution was to take down the large image of the map that people were linking to. So you can once again buy The Map of Humanity (please change your link to this page if you have a link up and use it if you're putting up a new one) and other SLG products at www.slgcomic.com.

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This is astounding and frustrating: Links to James Turner's Map of Humanity (blogged about here) are turning up all over the actual map -- blogs, Digg and sites in Russian and Arabic are pointing to our website. Meanwhile, here at SLG headquarters, we're like characters in a commercial for a server company because the traffic has crashed our website.

"The links are coming in from everywhere! Digg! Some Russian blog! The orders are going to be through the roof!"

"But our server's down! Our site won't load! The orders can't come through!"

"Oh, if only we'd called Nev-R-Crash Web Hosting!"

It's the Russians that are really killing us. There sure are a lot of them! Who knew? Incidentally, Moscow is the capital of Tyranny on the Map of Humanity that you could order if our site weren't down.

So sorry about the inconvenience, everyone. The company that hosts our site is trying to resolve the problem now. In the meantime, we're going to put the poster up on Amazon.con and eBay (links to come -- check back at this post), and you can also order one from us by calling 1-877-754-7877.