The link was dead when I checked it. Also the link provided by the google crawler was just as dead, so it could not have been a mistyped link.

So I was correct that the link was dead when I said it was. It is possible that that blog post was so popular that a WSJ server holding it crashed while the rest of the site remained online. Or it is possible that that the WSJ saw my post and said "damn, he is onto us, bring it back up!" Anyways, I am keeping my mind open :)

And regarding "inventing shadowy conspiracy theories where they don't exist", well they do exist now, since I invented them!