The problem seems to have gone away. I have not changed anything significant in my setup. I will mark this complete if the problem is still gone in a week.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Some further info. The story links look like this:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/01/0734202/Looking-at-Intels-New-ish-Desktop-Socket-LGA-1366?art_pos=12&art_pos=12
and *almost* always give a "Page Load Error" in firefox (3.0.10 on win32). Which goes on to say "Connection Interrupted. The document contains no data. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again." Trying again doesn't help.
The links under the number of comments look like the story links used to:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1251871
and always work.
This has been broken for several days.
The problem seems to have gone away. I have not changed anything significant in my setup. I will mark this complete if the problem is still gone in a week.