I see that other people are having LJ problems, too. I assumed it was just me, because when I check "Down for Everybody or Just Me", it says it's just me.

But somebody else mentioned checking status.livejournal.com, so I did. It says "While we've gotten site access returned for many users, we know many other users are still unable to access the site at all, or are only able to do so intermittently. We're sorry for the interruption to your LJ usage, and are still working hard to get site access back to normal for everyone as quickly as possible. Thank you."

So maybe that weird, embedded message doesn't indicate anything nefarious. Or maybe that's what LJ is trying to fix!