Earth's rotation slows, breaks Internet: There's nothing like a slowdown in the earth's rotation to ruin a Saturday night.
System administrators around the country were called away from dinner dates and gaming sessions on Saturday after an extra second was added to the evening by the world's timekeepers, causing widespread failure among computers that keep the world's websites online. Among the sites to have problems: Gawker, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Yelp, plus countless others.