The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a website -- with design inspired by Orwell or Superman, or something. Is this tongue in cheek?

Tumblr has been down for 13 hours and counting.

The blogging service apologized for the outage via its Twitter feed (@Tumblr) on Sunday evening, tweeting, "We're working quickly to recover from a major issue in one of our database clusters. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."

As of Monday morning, the service is still not up and running. How has the outage affected you? (If at all?) Weigh in below.

Here's the error message we're seeing on Tumblr.com:

A cautionary tale.