Boing Boing blackout message

Been checking out everyone's banners and pages, and this is my favorite. It's incredibly arresting, well written, and has good calls to action.

They win points for clearly stating in the first paragraph how they would be affected and why they oppose it.

I'm honestly surprised their 503 page isn't as NASCAR with advertisements as their regular page is. This must be costing them a fortune.

I love that they are doing this, BUT the big header "503: Service Unavailable" is what is first read and in my experience, most users will just stop in their tracks and return later (assuming the site is having technical issues) without reading the rest.

Their execution is better than Wikipedia's in my opinion. Well done, BoingBoing.

Must do: View page source. :)

The text was Cory, the viewsource was Dean (Mustardhamsters here at HN). Thanks, guys!