I have been getting what seems an empty page for the last few days. Switching to perlmonks.com solved the problem for me and until I saw this thread I just assumed something was wrong on perlmonks.org. Hitting refresh or even ctrl/refresh in Chromium still gave me an empty page. With live HTTP headers in firefox I see:

http://www.perlmonks.org/

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.perlmonks.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko
+/20110628 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.18 GTB7.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.
+8
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.8,de-de;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4,fr-fr;q=0.2
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:21:10 GMT
If-None-Match: "129595-ebb2-4a6ecefa67980"

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:23:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.14
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain
X-Cache: MISS from andvari.easysoft.local
X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from andvari.easysoft.local:8080
Via: 1.1 andvari.easysoft.local:8080 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)
Connection: keep-alive
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
[download]

Content-Length 0