Congrats! I had a similar thing happen to one of my sites 3 weeks ago. It got mentioned on a popular site and I ended up with 20,000 visitors that day, on a site that usually averages 1,000 visitors. I didn't email Adsense though, so I'm crossing my fingers that they won't ban me .
Still getting pretty good traffic from that link and also from a bunch of other sites that linked to mine. Looking forward to the 26th.
Here we go again, posted on http://blogs.abcnews.com/downanddirty/ A PR7 and the archive pages are PR6. I'm smiling today.
For the record, the AdSense issue had more to do with hidden refferers generated from being featured through an email newsletter, not a link on a major site. (Although document your traffic - Keeping a log is always a good thing) Congrats Roman!!!
It's 8:48 here in Google's time, so watch for that Google reply!!! er, I'll take that free site-wide back-link you offered me in that contest!!!
Thanks for all the info yfs1, today I woke up and my stats are high again, My site is listed under 'Headlines' , allbeit last, but still good enough for me, on themorningnews.org