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Works now, thanks. What did you do?

BTW if it's not too much to ask, I would love to know what went wrong/what the fix was -- especially as you say it only seems to be affecting us here in Canada. (I'm a web programmer and use php a lot.) If you get a minute later today, I would very much appreciate a personal email (unless you want to leave an explanation here).

Thanks!

You can get this if you alter the URL in your address bar.

Currently, consumerist's url comes up something like:
http://consumerist.com/
... NOT http://consumerist.com/index.php

The web server automatically sends you to index.php, but doesn't necessarily rewrite the URL that you see. Now when you go to page 2, for example, the REAL url is
http://consumerist.com/index.php?p=2
... BUT currently, the page buttons at the bottom of the screen continue to omit the "index.php" part, ie:
http://consumerist.com/?p=2

Up till today, the server configuration has apparently handled this, but they must have changed some script (php.ini?) for a different purpose that also had the unintended effect of breaking this shortcut.

So you can wait for them to fix it, or simply insert "index.php" after the slash, before the question mark, ie:
http://consumerist.com/index.php?p=2
... and read on to your heart's content. :)