Riot!!Food courts across America experienced a dramatic up-surge in business yesterday as distraught teenagers flocked to the them to stuff their gullets with burgers and burritos after MySpace, the trendy site that is responsible for more incidents of spontaneous eye-bleeding than any since a rash of sites containing twinkly star backgrounds and colorful, animated divider bars came briefly to prominence in 1995, went down as a result of heat-wave related blackouts in California. For twelve hours, cries of “OH NOES!” went up in bedrooms across the land while greedy food court mavens jacked prices up to take advantage of the crisis.

Jeff Gillicutty, a teenager found angrily pacing in front of one of the sixteen McDonalds in the giant Mall of America in Minneapolis, declared, “This isn’t right! It’s like the terrorists won! I was just in the middle of putting in a new widget. Damn bin Laden!” Nearby, Samantha McCarty, wearing a black, ripped t-shirt reading, ‘Keep MySpace independent!’ added, persuasively, “Yeah!”

It kind of warms my heart a little when a company a billion times our size is down that long. Makes me feel a little (not much!) less guilty about our recent similar downtime. Actually, it makes me wonder why a company the size of MySpace can’t survive a regional power-outage.